Proposta de implantação e certificação de um sistema de gestão ambiental: estudo de caso de indústria metal-mecânica

Abstract

Industrial Management in the beginning of the 1980s did not take environmental aspects into account when considering its productive processes. The control of such impacts was costly and was totally unrelated to the process. In that same decade concepts like globalization turned the market more competitive and after the end of the 1990s decade after the publication of the Bill of Environmental Crimes, industries were focused on attending the basic legal requirements. The scene drives companies towards implementing environmental management systems. Therefore the selected case study at a metal-mechanic company systemizes the implementation of a system where the company has used its own human and financial resources based on appropriate environmental legislation, in NBR ISO 14001:1996 2004 revision, in the bibliographic research, consulting of published technical articles, data survey, identification of environmental aspects and impacts and interviews, from self management, limiting itself to present strong points (positive results reached), thus presenting actions that must be executed to attend the prerequisites of NBR ISO 14001 as well as the difficulties found in developing such actions and the achieved results. The analysis of the obtained results through what has been proposed allows the conclusion that the implementation of environmental management systems is viable for the companies once they adapt themselves to their specificities. In the case study the implementation is a sine-qua-non condition for cost reduction, natural resources rationalizing, and the reduction of the effects of significant environmental impacts and also demonstrates seriousness and concern about environmental questions. The biggest contribution for the work is to show the steps to have an environmental management system certified by demonstrating what has been reached as well as the difficulties and resistances to the changes that the implementation will face along its way.