Evaluation of the environmental management of the Cuban Lubricants Company, Santiago de Cuba

Abstract

The objective of the article is to evaluate the environmental management of the Cuban Lubricants Company, Santiago de Cuba, assessing the fulfillment of its social responsibility. For the evaluation, the necessary indicators were determined and diagnosed (Competency Coefficient and the Delphi Method) and subsequently the measurement and evaluation were carried out (using different scales). The evaluation showed how important it is for companies to reconcile economic interests with the conservation of the natural environment where they carry out their activities and with their social responsibility, and that CUBALUB has a medium level of environmental management, determined in the economic dimension by the existence of Efficiency reserves not always exploited, in the environmental one due to the need to reduce the consumption of some natural resources and to reduce pollution and, in the social dimension, because the fulfillment of its social responsibility is not yet at the required level.