Environmental Health and Safety Audits

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.

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.

Part 1 Managing a Program
Chapter 2 Perspectives in EH&S Auditing
Chapter 3 Government Perspective
Chapter 4 Legal Considerations
Chapter 5 Elements of a Successful Program
Chapter 6 Impact of International Standards on EH&S Audit Programs
Chapter 7 The Challenges of Meeting ISO 14000 Auditing Guidelines: Audit Program Gaps
Chapter 8 A Review of Some Typical Programs
Chapter 9 Benchmarking EH&S Audit Programs: Best Practices and Biggest Challenges
Chapter 10 "Conducting Third-Party Evaluations of Environmental, Health and Safety Audit Programs"
Chapter 11 EH&S Auditor Qualifications: Great Expectations
Chapter 12 Training EH&S Auditors
Chapter 13 EH&S Audit Training in Asia Pacific
Chapter 14 Information Management
Chapter 15 Using Groupware to Manage the EH&S Audit Program Documentation Process
Chapter 16 Managing and Critiquing an Audit Program
Part 17 Conducting The Audit
Chapter 18 Conducting the EH&S Audit
Chapter 19 Typical Compliance Problems Found During Audits
Chapter 20 Conducting Effective Opening and Closing Conferences
Chapter 21 Auditing Dilemmas
Chapter 22 Preparing Quality EH&S Audit Reports
Chapter 23 Environmental Auditing: A Modern Fable
Chapter 24 Achieving Quality EH&S Audits: Twenty Tips for Success
Part 25 EH&S Audit Practical Guides
Chapter 26 EH&S Audit Guidance: Pre-Audit Preparation
Chapter 27 EH&S Audit Guidance: On-Site Activities
Chapter 28 EH&S Audit Guidance: Audit Findings Writing Guide
Part 29 Special Auditing Topics
Chapter 30 Property Transfer Assessments
Chapter 31 Top Ten Reasons Why Phase I Environmental Assessment Reports Miss the Mark
Chapter 32 Waste Contractor Audits
Chapter 33 Waste Minimization or Pollution Prevention Audits
Chapter 34 Evaluating Management Systems on EH&S Audits
Chapter 35 International EH&S Audits