What to Expect When a Waste Management Environmental Compliance Audit Is Done At Your Facility?

Tuesday, September 11, 2012: 10:45 AM-11:45 AM
#11-12 (Egan Convention Center)

Level of Course: Mid

A waste management specific environmental compliance audit conducted at your facility consists of a number of steps that will be addressed in the presentation.  This includes the following:
  1.  Environmental audit purpose
  2. Corporate environmental commitment or environmental audit policy
  3. What type of waste management audit could be conducted at your facility, i.e system or process?
  4. Will briefly discuss each audit type, benefits, and applicability
    1. System waste management audit
    2. Process waste management audit
  5. Pre-audit waste management questionnaire (typically covers hazardous, universal, solid, and special wastes)
    1. What to expect if you receive a questionnaire and timeline completion
  6. Waste management audit protocols, which includes the following:
    1. Opening meeting
    2. Actual audit walkthrough
    3. Audit locations identified in opening meeting
    4. Identify staff that should attend the audit
    5.  Photographic documentation
    6. Recordkeeping review and document management evaluation
    7. Audit closing meeting
  7. Audit action item findings and recommendations
    1. Include due date and identify a responsible person to complete finding
    2. Provide documentation to audit team after action item is completed, which should include action taken and photographic verification that action was completed.
  8. Audit Finding and Recommendation Tracking Methods
  9. Audit compliance statistics for management
  10. Audit finding rankings, includes pros and cons
  11. Possible consequences of not conducting an environmental audit
  12. Use of privileged or confidential on all audit documents
  13. Questions and Answers
Author:
Kurt Whitman, CHMM