Guia prático de auditoria ambiental: informações preliminares para empresas de pequeno porte

Abstract

Environmental auditing has become an essential tool for professionals dealing with environmental issues, and familiarizing company professionals with this concept is very important, which is why we thought about creating a practical environmental audit guide. The Guide elaborated in this work, is the result of research and learning activities in the management disciplines of the environmental and sanitary engineering course. The idea of ​​creating this guide, which would result in a general reference document for those who, in some way, perform environmental auditing for various purposes, arose from the authors' perception of the need to obtain such material to facilitate the understanding of laypeople on how start the process in their companies, in addition to showing the importance of the environmental management system as a whole. In case studies, the need for environmental services was analyzed, with this, the pre-audit questionnaire was prepared, in order to collect specific company information. Then, the check-lists were easily completed (Check-List), in order to build the current diagnosis of the enterprise. With the current diagnosis of the enterprise, the simplified action plan was developed, soon after, the practical environmental audit guide was developed, as reference material, facilitating the understanding of the topic, contributing to the beginning of environmental management in its companies.