Propuesta para la implementación de una herramienta de mejora para el registro, control y seguimiento de la información del sistema de gestión ambiental de la Universidad Santo Tomás Colombia

Abstract

Santo Tomas University framed in the fulfillment of the goals stipulated in its development plan 2020 - 2024 and in search of consolidating in an organized, accessible and useful way all the information in charge of its environmental management system (EMS). I implemented this project in an internship format in order to introduce a tool that would allow the improvement in the registration, control and monitoring of said information, for a subsequent consolidation and generation of environmental indicators that provide a diagnosis of the environmental behavior of the EMS.

By stipulating three phases it was intended to carry out the development of the project. Starting with a diagnostic phase, in which we wanted to identify available information, missing information to later organize it chronologically and consolidate a baseline of available information. In the second phase, I determine the tool with which the information obtained would be molded, said tool chosen was Google Data Studio due to its ease of organizing robust information, the efficient handling of large amounts of data and the generation of clear and concise reports. The third and final phase was the evaluation through the generation of reports and interpretation of graphs thrown by Data Studio about the performance of the institution's EMS.

Thus, some of the results obtained after the evaluation were, first, the collection, organization and management of the information necessary for the generation of environmental indicators varies greatly depending on the section of the university being studied, which brings with it greater difficulty when making comparisons between sectionals. On the other hand, both the missing data and the chronological differences in data collection make the analysis much more complicated.

However, by raising the baseline of information on environmental matters at Santo Tomas University, accompanied by the implementation of the Data Studio tool, the institution can now generate annual reports in a more agile and easy-to-interpret way.