Environmental Performance Evaluation of some Industrial Firms Duto to ISO 14031 Standard

ISO 14031 is the member of the ISO 14000 series of standards that addresses environmental performance and used for assessment this performance. An Environmental Performance Indicators(EPIs) for ten industrial activities in the middle Euphrates region at: Babylon, Al-Najaf and Karbala governorates were constructed and applied. The data of EPIs were collected by form of questionnaire ; the forms used to collect data of EPIs, and these forms were applied it a Reliability test and get Reliability value 89.5%. Then, the appreciation rate(RA) results of indicators were compared with the management standards (standard 80%) to determine performance extent and suggest suitable solutions. The results of this study indicate that there is no management or quality system applied on these factories selected in study area also no environmental policy. The Maximum unaccepted percentage of RA was 27.5% for a performance and infrastructure indicator at rubber products factory in al-Najaf governorate, this is due to different reasons such as little production and limited of quality of production, instruments and technique in the manufacturing process were old, also communication process limited, also the maximum unaccepted percentage was 17.5% for the quality and environmental policy indicator where a babylon governorate because there is no environmental policy in babel grain factory by clear aims and it also doesn’t have limits of the important aspects which have important impact on environmental or its activities, and the maximum unaccepted percentage of industrial and occupational safety indicator was 47%. Either a maximum percentage of RA was 100% for puraching operation indicator at many factories in case study.

Keywords:

EPIs , Environmental Performance , ISO 14031 , Plan-Do-Check-Act