Ferramentas de gestão de projetos ambientais: uma análise a partir da usabilidade do biovirtua

Abstract

The international conception of smart cities points to the use of smart technologies to solve socio-environmental, economic and cultural challenges. This strategy aims to raise the city's quality of life in the face of future challenges that require social innovation, sustainable policies and smart planning. In a complex and global business environment, improving performance and ensuring compliance with all environmental, health and safety obligations, commitments and constraints is a challenge. In addition, social and environmental management has gained growing interest among organizations wishing to establish an ethical and transparent relationship with all stakeholders - shareholders, customers, the community, suppliers and employees. While needs vary from one organization to another, the primary goal is often the same: reduce overall risk, comply with state and federal regulations, and enable the business to operate efficiently while maintaining a safe and environmentally sound workplace. Standards and initiatives such as ISO 14001 and OHSAS 18001 serve as a framework that enables companies to comply with all environmental, health and safety standards. There are several software developed to facilitate environmental management in the business and public context. Many of them help to implement the concept of smart cities. This research aimed to evaluate the functionality of BioVirtua, a project management tool, associated with information technology, designed to help companies manage the processes included in their main environmental programs so that they can improve their level of environmental performance. A preliminary evaluation was conducted to investigate with the target audience, potential users of the software, the interest in a Program for the purpose of environmental project management. Surveys were conducted through web forms sent to contact lists of professionals who work or have training in the environmental area. More than 50 answers were validated and analyzed for each question. The validation test was performed with experimental rigor and quantitative judgments about the product, as determined by Ferreira (2002) methodology. The results indicated that computational tools for environmental issues in companies are very necessary and urgent. The results showed that an environmental management solution has the potential to help companies become sustainable by implementing systems that help reduce an organization's impact on the environment while improving operational efficiency. Comparable to a financial management system that manages financial performance, an environmental management solution contributes to the organization's efficiency in managing environmental projects to achieve sustainability goals, meet environmental regulations and improve employee health and safety. and the community. However, usability tests conducted during the research showed that the inclusion of new technologies, such as Cloud Computing and an environmental project management environment through software is still new to the operating environment and that many professionals related to the field. Environmental management systems need advanced inclusion in digital media so that they can benefit from the technological resources that an automated operating environment can provide. The product of this work was the validation of BioVirtua software for future commercial use.