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PERFORMANCE EVALUATION USING ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT SYSTEM IN PHARMACEUTICAL INDUSTRY

Abstract

An Environmental Management System is a set of organization specific policies, procedure and guideline that govern strategy and day by day operation from a company’s environmental activities. These activities traditionally focused on compliance with regards to wastewater, air pollution, solid waste and hazardous waste and worker health and safety regulations. More recently however more and more business used EMSs as a protective tool for addressing both regulative and non regulative aspects from their business. ISO defined the environment as “the surroundings in which an organization operates, including air, water, land, natural resources, flora fauna, humans and their interrelation. EMS, according to ISO 14001 has four components. It is like a cycle of, plan, do, check and act. If the cycle is adhered to constantly it leads to continuous improvement of the system. Management needs to communicate their support to the system and emphasize that “they aim to improve their environmental performance. With better awareness in today’s era, the nations and countries cannot ignore ecological issues, which includes the cleanness of municipalities and stronger community mandates for environmental accountability. The utilization of hazardous chemicals and industrial action has contributed to a figure of environmental and health hazards. The industrial wastes are volumes of the gaseous, liquid or hard wastes produced by developed and other industrial processes. These emissions are merely partially controlled by pollution manage methods. Industrial waste is discharged into the surroundings in substantial quantities. The matter of consequence is to what level and to what degree is this trash damaging to health and environment. Implementation of an effective quality assurance policy is the most important goal of pharmaceutical industry. The concept of quality assurance and quality control together develops towards assuring the quality, safety and efficacy of pharmaceutical products. Thus, quality is critically important ingredient to organizational success today, which can be achieved by total quality management (TQM), an organizational approach that focuses on quality as an over arching goal, aimed at the prevention of defects rather than detection of defects. It is a philosophy and practice of integrative quality management system adopted worldwide in pharmaceutical industries along with other regulatory requirements. In this paper effect have been made to evaluate performance of a pharmaceutical industry using environmental management system in consistent with the ISO 14001 Standard, achieves EMS Registration, and improves the overall environmental performance of the organization.

NEHA BINDAL AND A.K. DWIVEDI

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