Eُnvironmental Performance Assessment (EPA)‎ by using computerized system

Abstract EN

The performance evaluation is an important element of the ISO 14000 process ISO 14001 : 2004 reffered to the environmental performance (EP) , as the measurable results of an organization's management of its environmental aspect .

An efficient environmental system enables management to set and meet environmental standards and to assess whether the organization's environmental objectives are being achieved, it allow to concentrate their focus on significant gaps in environmental performance...

The (CA- EPA) computer aided Environmental Performance Assessment system, is modified from the CA-360° TPM system to appropriate the Environmental Performance Assessment (EPA) .

In this work environmental performance objectives are included in the database of the system.

By using (CA- EPA) the (state company of leather Industries) was selected as application domain for assessment its Environmental performance.

The results showed that The Performance level of maintenance and-employees choice are 40% of the target level, where, the objectives (goals identifying), environmental instruction applications and laws and orders show the strong points , their Performance level is 80% .

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E.Performance level of the other factors are 60% .

The total Environmental Performance level is 62% and the summation of total points is 3.14 from the target value 5 and the total gaps from the target value are 38.8% .