Enviromental Audit
The goal of enviromental audit is to satisfy that organizations are complying with enviromental regulations and enforcing legislation..
Benefits of Enviromental Audit:
Enviromental audit is an enviromental management tool for measuring the effects of certain organizational activities on the enviroment against set standards.
Projects that have a likelyhood to impact the environment requires enviromental audit assessment,to provide scientific data and approach to determine the underlying risk and how they can be mitigated
Financial benefits
Help in conserving the environment
Helps to avoid hefty fines by regulatory agencies
Helps in planning to minimise cost
Waste minimization leading to reduced operating cost
Compliance Benefits
Reduced agency enforcement and regulatory consequences
Increased public awareness of environmental standards
Corporate Social Responsibility
Increase employees morales
Improve the enviroments image and the companies goodwill
Attract investors
Objectives of enviromental Audit
To be complient with regulatory standards and establish a report with regulatory bodies
Promote enviromental awareness
To review implementations of policies
To identify areas of liability
Enviromental perfomance
Improve production safty and health
Avail enviromental information to the public
Assess environmental performance
Waste reduction