Diagnóstico ambiental no universo escolar voltado para a certificação ISO 14001

Abstract

In this work was carried out a qualitative-quantitative research which is characterized as a case study, it was done at an institution of Basic Education, the State School Professor José Ignácio de Sousa (EEPJIS), located in Uberlândia MG. As it is an area of social relations, cultural, personal and environmental, the school is the place to obtain, through examples, changes in behavior so desired by our society. We wish to establish a precedent from this work proposal, carrying out the diagnosis of school environmental and their preparation to obtain the ISO 14001 certification, since there is not any accreditation by this standard in schools of Basic Education. Another intention of this research is the implementation of an Environmental Management System (EMS) for an environmental policy and the establishment of objectives and goals for future improvement, thereby improving the overall environmental performance. The diagnoses made in EEPJIS weight up the water consumption, energy consumption, food consumed, the solid waste produced and the quantity of this, the final destination of this waste, or the wooded or not areas and the impervious and permeability areas. Several programs were presented which will optimize the use of the natural resources of school as the programs are introduced. As the EMS was proposed, the Environmental Policy with physical and temporal targets will show actions and inspections to be taken by the own members of the community.