Formulación del Sistema de Gestión Ambiental (SGA) para la Fundación para la Educación Superior San Mateo según la Norma Técnica NTC ISO 14001:2015

Abstract

The present work includes the formulation of an Environmental Management System (SGA), for the San Mateo Foundation through the PHVA methodology and the parameters established in the ISO 14001 version 2015, prior to an initial RAI environmental review. As a frame of reference, a theoretical outline of the concept of sustainable development is offered, understood as the basic principle that sustains environmental management systems. The following are the ISO 14000 technical standards, which main objective is standardization in terms of language and management about of the environment, so that environmental management responds correctly and efficiently. The following is an institutional and contextual framework that locates the San Mateo Foundation within the different historical components (both of the Foundation and of the localidad where it is located), geographic and environmental; as a result, we obtain a state of the art of the environment and the dynamics that the Foundation currently has with its territory, as well as its evolution as an entity that provides education services. Subsequently, a methodology was established based on the model Plan, Verify, Do and Act (PHVA), an iterative model established by the Management Systems in order to seek continuous improvement. It is based on a Initial Environmental Review (RAI) adapted from the GTC 93 technical guide, which seeks to understand the initial environmental status of the Foundation in descriptive and management terms, culminating with an analysis of GAP point-to-point differences with each of the items proposed by the norm evaluates in terms of existence or not the different elements that the SGA should have under the contexts of the norm. As a result, a work plan was generated, the axis of the formulation of the Environmental System. The first phase of the methodology is Planning. It is structured keeping in mind both environmental objectives and environmental policy, which in turn must include the context of the Foundation, and the scope of the Environmental Management System within itself. The necessary processes that lead to the fulfillment of both the policy and the objectives are part of the planning of actions, bearing in mind the environmental impacts and risks, which must also be addressed at this stage. The Do phase, as part of the implementation of the planning, took into account the actions previously designed as input information and has as output the necessary structures to give coherence to the planning. The Verification and Action phases, in turn, were methodologically designed with the objective of monitoring each of the structures designed and evaluating their effectiveness once implemented in the system, bearing in mind their objective of continuous improvement. As a result, the formulation emulated a total of 36 documents, including matrixes, programs, procedures, registers and other additional documents, of which this document represents the guiding structure within its results, explaining the development point-to-point of the elements under the proposed methodology and taking into account the common high-level approach of ISO standards, based on risks and environmental aspects.