Environmental Management in Small and Medium Scale Manufacturing Industries in Shah Alam

Being one of the biggest industrialized city in Malaysia with large urban settlements, Shah Alam has been prone to serious environmental issues in the last decades. The small and medium manufacturing industries generate severe environmental impact and it lags far behind compared to other industries and sectors in implementing Environmental Management due to various factors. This study is to evaluate environmental impacts of manufacturing and to examine the company behaviour towards Environmental Management, thus explore the available measures for Environmental Management by employing a Questionnaire survey. This paper summarizes and discusses the result of a survey on Environmental Management in Small and Medium Scale Manufacturing Industries in Shah Alam. The primary respondents were from different manufacturing sectors such as automotive, petroleum, chemicals, plastics, food production, metal manufacturing, wood, paper, leather, electrical, electronics, and general machinery. The results discuss the respondents profile, subjects environmental management practices, their relations with stakeholders, and environmental awareness. A thorough statistical analysis is carried out with the results obtained.