dc.description.abstract | Taiwan home appliance industry has been in development for over 50
years after Tatung started operation. Along with economic growth and rising
income, home appliance products become necessity in daily life, instead of
luxury before. Most of the domestic home appliance industries already
implement ISO 14001 at present, and some concrete effects are achieved. For
the industry to assess and present their full consideration of environmental
effect, it is necessary to establish an environmental management index with a
attribute applicable to the home appliance industry.
After ISO announced ISO14001 Environmental Management System
Standard in September of 1996, the issue of environmental management
become a focus that the worldwide industries pay attention to. However, there
is no related clause established for explaining the measures of environmental
effect assessment.. For the industry to assess the environmental effect distinctly
and to fulfill essence of continual improvement in the environmental
management system, the ISO formally published officially ISO 14031 EPE
which is often raised and applied worldwide together with guideline and
initiative in relation to issues of environmental. However, most of these
documents are with attributes of principles, standard and procedure, and they
are not suitable for the various industries to assess effect of environmental
management activities
Therefore, this research try to establish the environmental management
index applicable fully to the home appliance industry. On basis of systematic
thought and method, it is to preliminary develop one consistent environmental
management index for the home appliance industry. This environmental
management index is provided to the industry, government and interests for
their reference in judging environmental achievement. Moreover, it is regarded
as a technical tool to assist the industry in decision making and maintenance
of environmental management achievement, as well as to enhance the effect for
the management and interests in realizing the environmental achievement. | en_US |