Acta Mechanica Slovaca 2009, 13(3):74-83 | DOI: 10.2478/v10147-010-0049-6

Application of Environment Management Systems in Environmental Security and Risk Prevention

Milan Majerník, Jana Chovancová

The development of industrial production, implementation of new technologies, using of growing number of dangerous substances brings remarkable risks tightly related to health and environmental threads. In the submitted article authors present an approach of the environmental risk prevention and present the Environmental management system as effective tool of the environmental risk prevention. The identification of the environmental aspects, impacts and risks and their characteristics and assessment in the specific register is the first and key step of the environmental risk prevention. Positive experience of the environmental management system applications is a motivation for the continual development of the processes with expected synergic effects and risk reduction.

Keywords: environmental risk, environmental security, environmental management system, risk register

Published: October 31, 2009  Show citation

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Majerník, M., & Chovancová, J. (2009). Application of Environment Management Systems in Environmental Security and Risk Prevention. Acta Mechanica Slovaca, 13(3), 74-83. doi: 10.2478/v10147-010-0049-6
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