Resumen de The status of the environmental management system, its improvement aspects under covid-19 crisis, and its impact on sustainable environmental development in jordan (an applied study on mining industries sector)
Jumana Basheer Abu Rumman, Sami Basheer Abu Rumman
Objective: Identify the impact of the new conditions created by Covid-19 crisis on achieving sustainable environmental development by studying the environmental management system and the impact of improving energy use, improving water use, and improving the impact of emissions in Jordanian mining industrial companies in achieving sustainable environmental development as a useful framework in the post-pandemic recovery period.
Research Design & Methods: The descriptive correlational method was used where a questionnaire. The research population consisted of specialists in of safety, environment, and occupational health in the Jordanian extractive industries and mining companies. A total of (8) companies were identified, of which the two largest companies were chosen as a cluster sample for this study: Arab Potash Company with 33 employees in safety and environment, and Jordan Phosphate Mines Company with 45 employees.
Findings: The results showed from the point of view of the workers in the Jordan Phosphate Mines Company and the Arab Potash Mines that there is a positive and statistically significant impact of improving aspects of the environmental management system in light of the Covid-19 crisis in general on sustainable environmental development by (77%).
Conclusion: The results showed from the point of view of the workers in the Jordan Phosphate Mines Company and the Arab Potash Mines that the level of improvement of the environmental management system in the field of energy use, in the field of water use, and in the field of the impact of gas emissions, ranges between medium and high level, and the results showed that there is a positive and statistically significant impact of improving aspects of the environmental management system (improving energy use, improving water use, improving the impact of gas emissions) in light of the Covid-19 crisis in general on sustainable environmental development by (77%).
