Chapter 5 Auditing
Chapter 5 Auditing
Chapter 5 Auditing
(Environmental
audit)
CHAPTER V
Topics
• Definition, purpose types
• Concept, programme, scope
– Environmental audit process – an overview
– Steps in the EMS audit process
– Effective elements of audits program
conformance
Environmental Audit (EA)
• EA began as a means of checking compliance
with environmental legislation.
• As a tool for management to gauge the efficiency
of its management system.
• Its function in EMS is at once EMS is in place, the
organization has to verify that the system is
followed, is working and has no deficiencies.
• It can detect deficiencies.
• Able to assist continual improvement.
Definition of environmental audit.
Is defined as a systematic, documented
verification process of objectively obtaining and
evaluating audit evidence to determine whether
specified environmental activities, events,
conditions, management systems, or
information about these matters conform with
audit criteria, and communicating the result of
this process.
Types of EA
• Several types of environmental audits.
Some are as follows:
(1) Compliance audits are used to ensure that the
company is meeting all regulations regarding
specific environmental practices, or the
implications of non-compliance.
– Conclusions
( refer handout page 125)
Finding summary
– Site Facilitator(s)
• Issue the report to the Audit Management Committee and site senior
management for endorsement
Following up an
Environmental Audit
– Responsible party(ies);
– Implementation program
2. Implement action plan
• Responsible party(ies)to undertake actions according to the allotted
budget, and the agreed timescale for completion.
3. Checking and monitoring
• To monitor progress of Action Plan
implementation, a status report should be
carried out and should include information on:
– Progress of action(s) undertaken