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Environmental Impact and Sustainable Development: An Analysis in the Context of Standards ISO 9001, ISO 14001, and OHSAS 18001
Author(s) -
Borella Ilde Luiz,
Carvalho Borella Margareth Rodrigues
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
environmental quality management
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.249
H-Index - 27
eISSN - 1520-6483
pISSN - 1088-1913
DOI - 10.1002/tqem.21460
Subject(s) - standardization , context (archaeology) , sustainability , business , sustainable development , triple bottom line , work (physics) , iso 14000 , corporate social responsibility , international standard , environmental planning , environmental resource management , environmental management system , environmental economics , engineering , political science , environmental science , geography , economics , public relations , mechanical engineering , ecology , archaeology , irrigation , law , biology , telecommunications
In this study, we seek to verify the contributions made by three international standards to efforts by eight companies to reduce their environmental impacts and move toward sustainable development. The standards considered in this article are the International Organization for Standardization's (ISO) 9001 (quality), ISO 14001 (environmental management systems), and the Occupational Health and Safety Assessment Series (OHSAS) 18001. The eight companies analyzed for this study are located in the state of Rio Grande do Sul in Brazil. As part of this work, the authors generated a proposed sustainable positioning matrix and placed each company within one of four quadrants—economic approach, environmental approach, social approach, and sustainability approach—derived from the context of the Triple Bottom Line (Elkington, [Elkington, J., 2004]).