Environmental Health and Safety Audits / Edition 9

by Lawrence B. Cahill, Raymond W. Kane

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781605907086
Publisher:	Government Institutes
Publication date:	03/16/2011
Edition description:	Ninth Edition
Pages:	686
Sales rank:	497,096
Product dimensions:	7.20(w) x 10.10(h) x 1.90(d)

About the Author

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.

Table of Contents

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