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ABSTRACTThis work intends to discuss how the use of the concept of pollution prevention in the contextof the ISO 14001 standard having a continuous improvement as its focus, can get betterenvironmental results for an industrial plant with reflex in the financial aspects. It introduces acase study a Nitrogen Fertilizer Plant, and the results on leading the EnvironmentalManagement System in the light of pollution prevention concept. The study is based in therecommendations of the EPA - Environmental Protection Agency, whose principles andobjectives is made up of preventing the generation of residues with all its resultantconsequences: disposal, treatment, recycling and reduction in its source. One concludes that amanagement system that uses the ISO 14001 standard and incorporates the logic of pollutionprevention concept as a continuous improvement, enables the industries to get tangible resultswith environmental and financial gains for the activities carried out, as well as intangibleresults of increasing in the intellectual capital – provided by a greater qualification of thepeople – and added value to the society as whole, this one got by means of employeessatisfied with their participation in works which enhance the consciousness of the pollutionprevention in the productive activities. At the end, all these values sum up in importance tothe shareholders and to the society as a wholeKey-words: Environmental Management; Pollution Prevention; ISO 14001 standard;Fertilizers Production.