Evaluation Of Environmental Performance Of Lafarge Cement Industry, Nfamosing, Akamkpa Local Government Area Of Cross River State, Nigeria.

ABSTRACT

Environmental management has gained importance around the world with many strategies, in recent year, there have been an increasingly intensive interest in assessing, measuring and documenting the environmental performance and increasing need for tools that would allow for proper and objective quantification or measurement of the performance of an organization with respect to their Environmental Condition Indicator (ECI), Management Performance Indicators (MPI), and Operational Performance Indicators (OPI) as well as ensuring compliance with regulatory requirement etc. However, the ISO standard is quite new and there is limited experiences of applying the standard in a cement industry. This study was design to evaluate environmental performance of lafarge cement industry, nfamosing akamkpa local government area of cross river state. And was Limited to Key Performance Indicators (Emission into air, Discharge into Water, Noise level, Waste Management, and Use of energy as well as  Management performance, and Operational performance. Parameters checked on emission were Dust, Sulphur (SO₂)_, VOC, CO, Oxygen (O_2,), Nitrogen Oxide (NO), and Hydrogen sulphate (H₂S) at kiln,clinker and milling point and were not significant at (P>0.05)  while CO and VOC were observed only in the milling point at 125±0.00 and 5.8±0.00. However SO₂   and CO exceeded the limit by NESREA set for the pollutants. Significant amount of physicochemical were recorded in water, waste as well a heavy metal. All were within the recommended limit of NESREA and WHO. On the evaluation on management performance 40 questionnaires were distributed and 33 were returned. 6 respondent were in maintenance department, 19 operational and while 8 were in co-operate affair departed. 23 male responded as well as 10 female. 10 were within the age of 13-24, 13 in 25- 34yers, 14 between 35-49 years while 1 was above 50 years. 13 respondent have 1-5years working experience, 15 within 6-10 years of experience, while 2 have 16-20 working experience. 10 attended primary school level, 17 secondary and 6 tertiary.  Environmental policy recorded mean  score of 5.00, planning 4.60, implementation and operation 4.69, waste management plan 4.24 checking and corrective action 4.24 and administrative review 4.09, SOP 5.00, style of SOP 5.00, benefit 4.48 and review 5.00  therefor need continues improvement specifically in are of  panning, implementation, action, administration, and benefit to  ascertain the maximum score of 5.00.