Conducting an Environmental Audit
Objectives
The on-site audit objectives should reflect those of the environmental audit, which are:
- Verification of legislative and regulatory compliance
- Assessment of internal policy and procedural conformance
- Establishment of current practice status
- Identification of improvement opportunities
Actions
Conduct on-site audit Opening Meeting with Office manager and site personnel to:
- Introduce audit team members
- Present audit scope and objectives
- Outline the audit approach and methodology
- Address questions or concerns of site personnel
- Rally staff support and assistance
Audit Team member to undertake a review of relevant document such as:
- Management policy
- Management system documentation
- Operational procedures
- Records (utility, inventory, monitoring, calibration, trans - portation, training etc.)
- Previous audit reports
- Green management team meeting minutes
- Green suggestions
In particular, to evaluate whether the records are:
- Current
- Properly completed
- Signed and dated
- Consistent
- Meet relevant requirements
