Students’ Awareness of Chemical Risk on a Mexican Campus: The University of Sonora case study

• Authors: MUNGUIA Nora , ALVAREZ Clara Rosalia , PEREZ Karla , ESQUER Javier
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) is a powerful mean to promotes sustainable development. A decade ago, the UN Decade of Education for Sustainable Development (DESD) promoted this concept to support the creation of a more sustainable future. In 2015, the United Nations launched The Global Action Programme (GAP) to promote the EDS at all levels and in all settings. The University of Sonora in Northwestern Mexico has been engaged in greening its campus by a Sustainability Management System (SMS), which is based on the ISO 14001 international standard. This article is aimed at measuring the awareness of students about safety in chemistry laboratories at the University of Sonora. Despite of being the first university to be ISO 14001 certified in Latin America, findings in this study show that most of the students at the University of Sonora are unaware of key topics of the institutional sustainability management system. Particularly, students are unaware of internal practices for increasing safety in laboratories. A better awareness of the environmental policy and benefits of safety issues among students could be a positive indicator of the relevance of the SMS for increasing the safety within laboratories.

Keywords

EN

sustainability; awareness; perception; ISO 14001; students

• Publisher: Wyższa Szkoła Bankowa we Wrocławiu
• Journal: Central and Eastern European Journal of Management and Economics (CEEJME)
• Year: 2016
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 179-188

Dates

published

2016-09-30

Contributors

author

MUNGUIA Nora

• University of Sonora

author

ALVAREZ Clara Rosalia

• University of Massachusetts Lowell

author

PEREZ Karla

• University of Sonora

author

ESQUER Javier

• University of Sonora

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2353 - 9119