Estudo da utilização de indicadores ambientais nos moldes das ISOS 14001 e 14031 em empresas prestadoras de serviço de engenharia em São Luís-MA

Abstract

With the advance of mankind towards industrialization and technological modernization, creating new processes that are potentially harmful to the environment, a growing concern about the environment also comes from mankind. Due to pressures coming from the society, organizations considered before as polluters, start to manage the environmental aspects of their processes in a much more efficient way, through the implantation of Environmental Management Systems (EMS). An important tool to build, consolidate information and promote the improvement of the Environmental Management Systems is the usage of environmental indicators. With the implantation and maintenance of its EMS, seeking its continual improvement, organizations can try to obtain the ISO 14001 certification, internationally known as an excellence standard on environmental management. The present work presents a study of the usage of ISO 14001 and ISO 14031 based environmental indicators on engineering companies in São Luís, Maranhão, that have no environmental systems implemented. Questionnaires approaching items from the ISO guidelines above described were used. A statistical treatment was realized on the data gathered in order to know the indicators usage rate of each company. The data compiled was analyzed, and from them, 7 companies were recommended to implement an EMS, for obtaining 40% or more of indicator usage