Environmental Health And Safety Auditing Handbook

This text is designed to answer the new awareness and concern about the environment and health and safety issues, by corporations operating in the USA and internationally, since the environmental audit became a routine part of corporate business. As with any other type of audit, the process includes a careful review of all aspects of the process and the plant (past and present) that could cause health, safety or environmental problems.

Up-to-the-minute information on the latest standards for environmental, health, and safety audits This essential update to McGraw-Hill's Environmental, Health, and Safety Auditing Handbook, Second Edition, covers all of the regulatory changes and new auditing standards implemented since the book was published. Accessible and free of legal jargon, it is a must for anyone responsible for compliance with federal, state, and local environmental laws and corporate environmental standards and objectives. Look inside for: The most recent regulatory information and auditing standards, including ISO 14000 and 14001; New techniques and methods for conducting effective audits and re-engineering the EHS audit process; Innovative approaches to measuring sustainability in business; A guide to EHS auditing within a decentralized management structure. Learn how to plan and conduct effective environmental audits with step-by-step guidance from leading corporations and consultants with extensive experience in EHS auditing. This valuable reference work guides you through the process, with sections on auditing and the environmental management system. . .international approaches to EHS auditing. . .enhancing the value of EHS audit reports. . .using computers in EHS auditing, and even auditing the software used by EHS auditors. . .and environmental audits and the law. This information is detailed in language you can understand to help you conduct EHS audtis that are effective in measuring compliance, evaluating management systems, and helping your organization achieve its environmental, health, and safety goals--whether your organization has a long-established EHS audit program or is just beginning todevelop one.

This new edition builds on the success of the first edition. It has been enhanced to embrace new topics including Due Dilgence, EHS Auditing, Process Safety, Auditing, and a chapter summarizing auditing with the relevant ISO standards. The rest of the book has been updated to fit with the guidance and requirements set out with the changes in the ISO standards. The goal of this book remains the same, to provide a "down to earth" guidance for managers and specialists in organizations who are committed to improving their safety, health and environmental performance, but are not sure where to start or do not wish to employ consultants to do this for them. They do it themselves using this book. Features Integrates the concepts of safety health and environmental auditing into a common approach of "loss prevention" Provides an audit protocol for 60 aspects of safety, health, and environmental management Presents a summary of the requirements of ISO 9001 and ISO 14001 to auditing Introduces the novel and unique concept of Auditing Convergence Offers a simple auditing software (The Plaudit II audit process) in an electronic program which no other book on this topic can offer

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.

In an updated companion title to the 9th edition of Environmental Health and Safety Audits, Lawrence Cahill draws from nearly forty years of experience in over twenty-five countries to address important EHS audit issues that audit program managers and auditors must deal with routinely and when special circumstances arise.

Even though most organizations have extensive safety, health, and environmental protocols in place, things often go wrong. Having good quality instructions is only half the battle. An equally crucial part of a good quality process is auditing, the step that ensures compliance with the procedures. Safety, Health, and Environmental Auditing