Environmental safety management system – as one of the components of energy efficiency

Abstract

The article substantiates the relationship between environmental safety and energy efficiency – as the main components on the way to sustainable development of society. The existing approaches to defining the essence of environmental safety are considered, its characteristic features are detailed, the basic practical principles of its provision are substantiated, and promising directions for the further development of the international environmental safety system are shown. The general scheme of the organization of the ecological safety system in the normal state of the environment is presented, which should be based on three components: control, regulation and implementation of safety measures. It is shown that maximum efforts should be directed to making management decisions based on the analysis of existing risks and forecasting new potential threats, which are an integral part of human activity. An important stage in a productive management system is the use of the best available technologies, which does not require strict regulation of activities and provides the freedom to choose ways to achieve this goal, based on the latest technological and technological solutions. organizational developments and their successful combination. Competitive advantages and a number of disadvantages from the introduction of an environmental management system at an enterprise, in particular in the energy sector, have been substantiated. The article presents the main laws of Ukraine in the field of environmental safety, as well as the state standards of Ukraine in the series of international standard ISO 14000. The main stages of management in the field of environmental safety, based on the Shuhard-Deming cycle, are summarized and presented in the model of the environmental safety management standard DSTU ISO 14001:2015.