Environmental Health and Safety Audits

Lawrence B. Cahill; Raymond W. Kane

doi:10.5771/9781605907093

Summary

This new edition of Environmental Health and Safety Audits not only will help you put your company on course toward effective environmental compliance, but also now brings you up to date on changes in EPA and OSHA auditing policies, issues currently confronting auditing programs, and state-of-the-art strategies for managing and conducting audits. In this book, author Lawrence B. Cahill, a veteran with over 25 years of industry experience, provides all the information needed to conduct audits and manage an EH&S auditing program. He discusses new developments in information generation and availability, including ISO 14000 auditing guidelines, auditing dilemmas, and auditing tips. He provides several tools for building a successful audit program, including an EH&S audit program manual, a pre-audit questionnaire, a pre-audit checklist, an EH&S audit opening conference presentation, an environmental audit report, an EH&S audit appraisal questionnaire, and a management report. In addition to updates to most chapters, several new chapters address conducting third-party evaluations, and include a number of quick, practical reference guides on all aspects of performing an EH&S audit, from preparation to reporting findings. A new appendix also models a conference closing presentation.

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Copyright year: 2010
ISBN-Print: 978-0-86587-825-9
ISBN-Online: 978-1-60590-709-3
Publisher: Government Institutes, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 676
Product type: Book Titles

1. Contents No access
2. Preface No access
3. Acknowledgments No access
1. 1. Perspectives in EH&S Auditing No access
2. 2. Government Perspective No access
3. 3. Legal Considerations No access
4. 4. Elements of a Successful Program No access
5. 5. Impact of International Standards on EH&S Audit Programs No access
6. 6. The Challenges of Meeting ISO 19011 Auditing Guidelines No access
7. 7. A Review of Some Typical EH&S Audit Programs No access
8. 8. Benchmarking EH&S Audit Programs No access
9. 9. Competencies, Characteristics, and Training of EH&S Auditors No access
10. 10. Conducting Third-Party Evaluations of EH&S Audit Programs No access
11. 11. Information Management No access
12. 12. Managing and Critiquing an Audit Program No access
1. 13. Conducting the EH&S Audit No access
2. 14. Typical Compliance Problems Found during Audits No access
3. 15. Conducting Effective Opening and Closing Conferences No access
4. 16. Auditing Dilemmas No access
5. 17. Preparing Quality EH&S Audit Reports No access
6. 18. EH&S Auditing No access
7. 19. Achieving Quality EH&S Audits No access
1. 20. EH&S Audit Guidance Audit Preparation No access
2. 21. EH&S Audit Guidance On-Site Activities No access
3. 22. EH&S Audit Guidance Audit Findings Writing Guide No access
1. 23. Property-Transfer Assessments No access
2. 24. The Top Ten Reasons Why Phase I Environmental Assessment Reports Miss the Mark No access
3. 25. Waste Contractor Audits No access
4. 26. Waste-Minimization or Pollution-Prevention Audits No access
5. 27. Evaluating Management Systems on EH&S Audits No access
6. 28. International EH&S Audits No access
Appendix A - Key References No access Pages 411 - 414
Appendix B - Federal Register Notices No access Pages 415 - 456
Appendix C - Sample EPCRA Audit Protocol No access Pages 457 - 512
Appendix D - EH&S Auditor Training No access Pages 513 - 546
Appendix E - Summary of Audit Programs No access Pages 547 - 572
Appendix F - Model EH&S Audit Program Manual No access Pages 573 - 594
Appendix G - Model Preaudit Questionnaire for EH&S Audits No access Pages 595 - 612
Appendix H - Model EH&S Audit Opening Conference Presentation No access Pages 613 - 618
Appendix I - Model EH&S Audit Closing Conference Presentation No access Pages 619 - 626
Appendix J - Model Environmental Audit Report No access Pages 627 - 638
Appendix K - Model EH&S Audit Appraisal Questionnaire No access Pages 639 - 642
Appendix L - Model Management Presentation No access Pages 643 - 650
Appendix M - Illustration of Audit Plan No access Pages 651 - 656
Index No access Pages 657 - 672
About the Authors No access Pages 673 - 676