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Objectives of Environmental Auditing

This document discusses environmental auditing. Environmental auditing involves systematically examining a company's environmental performance and controls to verify compliance with standards and regulations. The objectives of environmental auditing include identifying risks and liabilities, ensuring plant operations comply with requirements, and determining if management systems ensure compliance. Advantages include increasing employee awareness, finding cost savings, improving data exchange, and helping management with decisions. The scope can vary from simple compliance testing to more rigorous examinations. Audits follow a methodology including planning, on-site inspection and interviews, assigning corrective actions, and reporting. A five-step approach involves understanding the EMS, assessing strengths and weaknesses, gathering evidence, evaluating results, and reporting findings.

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Objectives of Environmental Auditing

This document discusses environmental auditing. Environmental auditing involves systematically examining a company's environmental performance and controls to verify compliance with standards and regulations. The objectives of environmental auditing include identifying risks and liabilities, ensuring plant operations comply with requirements, and determining if management systems ensure compliance. Advantages include increasing employee awareness, finding cost savings, improving data exchange, and helping management with decisions. The scope can vary from simple compliance testing to more rigorous examinations. Audits follow a methodology including planning, on-site inspection and interviews, assigning corrective actions, and reporting. A five-step approach involves understanding the EMS, assessing strengths and weaknesses, gathering evidence, evaluating results, and reporting findings.

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ENVIRONMENTAL AUDITING

WHAT IS ENVIRONMENTAL AUDITING


systematic
examination of environmental performance throughout a

companys existing operation

A systematic objective method of reviewing management systems & controls


and verifying whether environmental standards, regulatory, company and good industry standards, are being met.

OBJECTIVES OF EA
Identification of actual and potential risk and liabilities.

Ensuring whether the plant operations are in line with the Company's requirement
and adopting good management practices.

Determining

whether the management and control systems are functioning to

assure n compliance.

To determine compliance with statutory and regulatory bodies' requirements.

ADVANTAGES OF EA
Increasing
standards employee awareness of Environmental laws, regulations and

Finding out the potential cost saving areas within the plant including waste
minimization / resource recovery possibilities

Better exchange of data between group related to operation and management Helping management to take decisions in relation to plant modification or
alteration

Ensuring

better relation with the regulatory authorities by way of meeting regulatory requirement an info-base which can be used in emergent conditions and validating its potential

Providing

SCOPE OF EA
The prime objective of audits is to test the adequacy of existing management
systems, they fulfil a fundamentally different role from the monitoring of environmental performance.

The scope of an audit can vary from simple compliance testing to a more
rigorous examination, depending on the perceived needs of the management.

AUDIT METHODEOLOGY
Preaudit Onsit e Postaudit
Gathering and reviewing background information

Scheduling the audit

Selecting the audit team

Planning the audit

Preparations

Interviewing site personnel

inspecting the site, the operations and equipment


Assigning responsibility for corrective action and establishing timescales

Reviewing administrative and operating records and documents


Implementing corrective action Conducting followup to the action plan

Preparing and distributing the audit report

Determining potential solutions and preparing recommendations

FIVE STEPS AUDIT APPROACH


Understanding Environmental Management Systems (EMS) Assessing strengths and Weaknesses of EMS Gathering Audit Evidence Evaluating Audit Results Reporting Audit Findings

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