Management must be careful with everything related to their production processes, to assess whether the production of the product to manufacture if possible contamination of the environment where it operates are given. Determine if current technology meets an appropriate environmental management system, which produce few or no contaminant residue, to use degradable alternative materials and that, in short avoid, if necessary, through a process of control, filtering, recycling, purification, recovery, etc., pollution of the environment due to the productive activity. At present several universal rules in favour of environmental management that can not be ignored, especially as indicated, to establish a good system of environmental management, such as have been the series of standards ISO 14000, which share common principles with the series of standards ISO 9000, used for the implementation of quality management systems.CITES Julio Aliaga, an environmental management system including the Organization of the company, the planning of activities, processes and resources used to develop, deploy and maintain environmental policy established by the Direccion.las in addition to take responsibility for the quality and safety of their products and companies prevent damage to the environment, are responsible for the physical integrity of employees who work in its facilities and must implement a system of prevention of risks appropriate to their system of production and services. Not the slightest doubt, that the management of the social, ethical and environmental impacts associated with the performance of enterprises is becoming a true imperative, so environmental a company’s image is a value or a load that assess investors, insurers, customers, suppliers and consumers in general. It undoubtedly constitutes a competitive advantage get differentiate themselves by the respect for the environment. Luis Lopez de Medina, us adds thereon, that environmental management systems are tools of competitive advantage that respond to growing public pressure, the employees and the rest of those affected by the activity of the company.
Programmes such as the EU Eco Management and Audit (EMA) and the responsible Care of the ISO standards are configured based on this advantage. The majority of companies voluntarily reports its environmental performance to meet the demand of groups with interests in them: potential investors: banks, securities markets or insurance companies want to know capital expenditures that are required to comply with the new rules and what potential environmental liabilities would have effect on financial operations. Local communities want to know the environmental impact of the operations of the companies in its territory and have the power to endorse or reject their activity. The individual consumers ask for information on the impact and effects of the products that they purchase. Sometimes, the consumer chooses a more expensive product only because it considers it more eco-friendly. Corporate customers are looking to gain the trust of their customers showing that they have an environmental policy and a structure of information.
Like employees to know that the company for which they work is clean and transparent. Of course comments Medina, the existence of mentalities different when it comes to managing a company’s environmental policy makes that this management will become an element of differentiation in the context of an increasingly competitive global market. In summary, we insist that there must be one linking companies with the protection of the environment, where his management really undertakes to ensure that production processes, the same products manufacturing are not pollutants in the environment where they operate.
