Agco Environmental Policy - MASSEY FERGUSON MF400Xtra Workshop Manual

Introduction
I. AGCO Environmental Policy
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AGCO do Brasil Comércio e Indústria LTDA, at its
plant in Canoas city, Rio Grande do Sul state, is
committed to the development, production and sales
of products aimed at meeting the mechanization
needs of agribusiness, both in the Brazilian and
foreign markets, always adopting the most
appropriate alternatives for the preservation of the
Environment.
Main Guidelines
1 - Comply with applicable regulations and
standards, seeking to stay up-to-date with the
latest regulatory trends.
2 - Continually
performance. Adopt pollution prevention
practices aimed at making rational use of natural
resources and reducing noise levels and solid,
liquid and gaseous wastes.
3 - Be proactive in the internal and external
community by keeping a channel of
communication open for information related to
environmental concerns and actions.
4 - Promote a sense of environmental responsibility
by providing further training to employees and
raising the awareness of suppliers and service
providers.
How will we achieve these goals?
Working together with the environment will ensure
that the company survives in the future. With this
philosophy in mind, AGCO planned and
implemented its environmental policy by putting into
practice an Environmental Management system and
a program for Cleaner Production.
What is ISO 14000?
It is a set of environmental management standards
defined by the International Standards Organization
(ISO). The ISO 14000 series consists of 6 sets of
standards, each one dealing with a specific
environmental issue.
ISO 14001 Standard applies to AGCO, because it
deals with environmental management systems.
01A01-26
improve environmental
Environmental Management System - EMS
An EMS is a set of procedures used to manage a
company in order to obtain the best relationship with
the environment.
The implementation of this system aims at fully
analyzing all of the company's activities, products
and services in terms of their influence on the
environment, and at taking on an ongoing
commitment to environmental quality.
Environmental
Management
System
Fig. 1
Environmental issues
Greenhouse effect
It is the rise in temperature that the Earth experiences
caused by the build-up of gases such as carbon
dioxide (CO2) and methane (CH
Carbon dioxide is produced in industrial processes,
in the burning of fossil fuels and in fires.
"Global warming can melt the polar ice caps and
cause flooding".
Fig. 2
) in the atmosphere.
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