Lawrence B. Cahill

Environmental Health and Safety Audits (eBook, ePUB)

A Compendium of Thoughts and Trends

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Environmental health and safety (EHS) audit programs have become an established and essential component of corporate governance in most every major organization whose activities could affect public health and the environment. While many of the audit programs in existence are quite mature there continues to be an evolution of audit practices designed to better identify and control EHS risks. This new updated second edition takes a look at many of those practices and potential advances in the profession. Among the critical topics addressed are:
What is the current EHS regulatory outlook in the U.S. and how might this affect a company's and the regulator's attitudes towards compliance and auditing? Are the potential consequences of "taking your eye off the ball" still significant?How does one know whether an audit program is actually working and meeting its established objectives? What are the best performance criteria to use?How can risk management be factored into audit programs and how individual audits are conducted to assure efficient and relevant outcomes? How can we get at the true risks and avoid the tendency to focus on "administrivia"?How can auditors become more proficient and how can we train people to help assure we maximize an individual auditor's potential? Can the individual auditor be "all things to all people"?Can innovative approaches such as "virtual" audits achieve the same or even better results more cost-effectively? How can limited resources be applied optimally?
The second edition addresses the key components of an EHS audit program and provides advice on:

How to improve the management and execution of an audit programHow to address the true compliance risks in implementing an audit programHow to make auditors more effective and versatileHow to help auditors understand the special demands of auditing internationallyHow to utilize innovative techniques, such as virtual auditing, to maximize a program's effectiveness and efficiency.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 125
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. November 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781598889741
• Artikelnr.: 49941876

Autorenporträt

Lawrence B. Cahill is a Certified Professional Environmental Auditor with Master Certification, and a Principal in ERM's Business Integration Group in Exton, Pennsylvania. He has over twenty-five years of professional EH&S experience in industry and consulting. Mr. Cahill has worked for Fortune 500 companies such as DuPont, Exxon, BF Goodrich, Colgate-Palmolive, Hercules, Eastman Kodak, Occidental Petroleum, Bristol-Myers Squibb, and TRW. He has conducted hundreds of audits, and has trained thousands of people in auditing skills all over the world, from Asia and Africa to South America, and throughout Europe and North America.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. Managing a Program
Chapter 1. Perspectives in EH&S Auditing
Chapter 2. Government Perspective
Chapter 3. Legal Considerations
Chapter 4. Elements of a Successful Program
Chapter 5. Impact of International Standards on EH&S Audit Programs
Chapter 6. The Challenges of Meeting ISO 19011 Auditing Guidelines: Audit
Program Gaps
Chapter 7. A Review of Some Typical Programs
Chapter 8. Benchmarking EH&S Audit Programs: Best Practices and Biggest
Challenges
Chapter 9. Competencies, Characteristics and Training of EH&S Auditors
Chapter 10. Conducting Third-Party Evaluations of Environmental, Health and
Safety Audit Programs
Chapter 11. Information Management
Chapter 12. Managing and Critiquing an Audit Program
Part II. Conducting The Audit
Chapter 13. Conducting the EH&S Audit
Chapter 14. Typical Compliance Problems Found During Audits
Chapter 15. Conducting Effective Opening and Closing Conferences
Chapter 16. Auditing Dilemmas
Chapter 17. Preparing Quality EH&S Audit Reports
Chapter 18. Environmental Auditing: A Modern Fable
Chapter 19. Achieving Quality EH&S Audits: Twenty Tips for Success
Part III. EH&S Audit Practical Guides
Chapter 20. EH&S Audit Guidance: Pre-Audit Preparation
Chapter 21. EH&S Audit Guidance: On-Site Activities
Chapter 22. EH&S Audit Guidance: Audit Findings Writing Guide
Part IV. Special Auditing Topics
Chapter 23. Property Transfer Assessments
Chapter 24. Top Ten Reasons Why Phase I Environmental Assessment Reports
Miss the Mark
Chapter 25. Waste Contractor Audits
Chapter 26. Waste Minimization or Pollution Prevention Audits
Chapter 27. Evaluating Management Systems on EH&S Audits
Chapter 28. International EH&S Audits