Environmental management system focus on Malaysia’s Langkawi
Geopark
Elmira Shamshiry
1
, Behzad Nadi
+ 2
, Mazlin Bin Mokhtar
1
, Ibrahim Komoo
1
, Halimaton
Saadiah Hashim
1
, Nadzri Yahya
3
1
Institute for Environment and Development (LESTARI) Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM), 43600
UKM BANGI, Selangor, Malaysia
2
Universiti Putra Malaysia, Institute of Advanced Technology (ITMA)
3
Director General, National Solid Waste Management Department, Ministry Of Housing and Local
Government, Malaysia
Abstract. Human activities towards development will have various effects on Environment any way. We
couldn’t limit these activities, should try according to present and future needs for its development and
completion, on condition that should not destroy environment and natural resources. In fact Environment and
development are separately matters, it is necessary with application and using of Environmental Management
tools in all of development program , minimum damaging enter to resources and Environment. Langkawi is
administrative district and the town of Kuah is its capital and the largest town in it. The total land area of the
islands is 47,848 hectares while Langkawi, which is the main island. Lafarge Malayan Cement is the
leader in the Malaysian cement industry. In Malaysia, it operates a nationwide network of facilities which
include three integrated cement plants in Langkawi, Kanthan, and Rawang, one grinding plant in Pasir
Gudang, and distribution channels by road, rail, and sea. In this paper we want to show effect of Lafarge
factory on Langkawi Island, Optimizing and recovering of factory existent Environmental situation,
Removing Environmental problems and improvement relevant standards and Schematizing and controlling
on Environmental safety preservation and preferment, decreasing of contaminated resource and
Environmental planning arrangement and integration with utilizing Environmental Impact Assessment and
Environmental Management System.
Keywords: Environmental Management System, Langkawi Island, Effect
1. Introduction
Primary object in Environmental assessment report preparation have confidence on policies observance
and special goods in factory programs and activities base of criterion, standards, Environmental acts and
regulations Environmental impact identification, prediction and assessment is one of accepted ways for
reaching to sustainable development aims and could settle as one programming tool in available of
programmers, managers and determinants until base on that could identify Environmental potentially impacts
in developing refinery and logical alternatives select for its solution. Human activities towards development
will have various effects on Environment any way.
Consider to the effect of action in area and both of advantage and disadvantage of LAFARGE factory in
island. Our success in obtaining International Standards Organization (ISO) 14001 certification in 2002 is
one of the ways we have demonstrated that commitment. This environmental statement augments the ISO
14001 requirement for public reporting of our environmental performance. Performance data provided in this
statement is based on the data available at the time the statement was generated. Where possible, 2005 data
was used. Otherwise, 2004 data was used. Immediately following Rio,other institutions began focusing on
*corresponding author. Tel. :(0060173577610).
E-mail address: (nadibehzad@gmail.com).
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