Abstract

The increase in industrial activities to meet the growing needs of the population has led many companies to adopt environmental management (EM) policies to offset their impacts on the environment. For this reason, this article proposes a tool to identify the maturity levels of the elements of EM in industrial companies. The principles and practices of these elements were identified in the scientific literature and their practice was tested in an industrial company using the proposed tool. The main results show that the proposed tool allows to measure the maturity of the EM principles in industrial companies, making it possible to direct efforts toward EM elements with lower level of maturity.

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中文翻译：

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成熟度网格，用于评估和改善工业公司的环境管理

摘要

为了满足人口不断增长的需求而进行的工业活动的增加导致许多公司采用环境管理（EM）政策来抵消其对环境的影响。因此，本文提出了一种工具来确定工业公司中EM元素的成熟度。在科学文献中确定了这些元素的原理和实践，并使用建议的工具在一家工业公司中对它们的实践进行了测试。主要结果表明，所提出的工具可以测量工业公司中EM原理的成熟度，从而有可能将精力集中在具有较低成熟度的EM元素上。

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