A Guide to Local Environmental Auditing

A Guide to Local Environmental Auditing
Author: Hugh Barton
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 396
Release: 2014-01-14
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1134167741

Sustainable development is still seen by authorities as an abstract concept. Local Environmental Auditing will help put it into practice. The book provides a comprehensive guide to monitoring the state of the local environment and establishing the impacts of local actions on global issues, and shows how current local authority policy and practice can be adapted to recognize environmental priorities. The authors provide both a guide to and an assessment of the subject: they link the processes with the issues, with specific information on carrying out the audit (including checklists, case studies and standards) and a detailed discussion of the issues and choices which local authorities may face. Clearly structured and accessible, this will be an essential handbook, both for local government departments and other local organizations, and students in a wide range of subjects, including environmental science and health, town planning, urban and rural studies, social science and politics.

Safety, Health, and Environmental Auditing

Safety, Health, and Environmental Auditing
Author: Simon Watson Pain
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 232
Release: 2010-04-26
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 1439829489

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

Environmental, Health, and Safety Auditing Handbook

Environmental, Health, and Safety Auditing Handbook
Author: Lee Harrison
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Professional Publishing
Total Pages: 680
Release: 1995
Genre: Medical
ISBN:

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.

Basic Guide to Environmental Compliance

Basic Guide to Environmental Compliance
Author: Jeffrey W. Vincoli
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 276
Release: 1993-10-06
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9780471285656

Due to budgetary restrictions such as manpower reductions, today'ssafety and health professionals are taking on greaterresponsibilities in the environmental arena. Many of theseprofessionals are unfamiliar with the basic requirements associatedwith environmental compliance. This second volume in Wiley's BasicGuide Series simplifies the environmental profession for those whoare new to the field. It combines simple explanations of complianceissues with clear breakdowns of the latest environmentalregulations. It also offers a history of the EnvironmentalProtection Agency and various environmental policies in the U.S.The first part of the book clarifies fundamental conceptsassociated with preservation of environmental health and resources.It summarizes relationships between state plans and federalenvironmental compliance schemes, as well as covering environmentalaudits and inspection processes. The author discusses differenttypes and phases of audits and audit reports, including properdocumentation and follow-up. Part Two provides a nuts-and-boltsunderstanding of all important environmental laws, includingthe: * Environmental Policy Act * Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and LiabilityAct * Emergency Planning and Community Right to Know Act * Clean Water Act * Clean Air Act * Toxic Substances Control Act * Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) * SARA This guide will meet the reference needs of safety engineers,environmental engineers, corporate managers, and design engineersin a variety of industries. About the Wiley Basic Guide Series TheWiley Basic Guide Series focuses on topics of interest to today'ssafety and/or health professionals. These manuals promote a quickand easy familiarity with certain subject areas that may be outsidethe professional's main field but are required knowledge on thejob.

ISO 14000

ISO 14000
Author: Perry Johnson
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 262
Release: 1997-08-19
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780471165644

ISO 14000 is an environmental management system that controls a company's environmental impact. This book gives executives and managers a clear, detailed understanding of the positive business impact of complying with ISO 14000.

A Complete Guide to the Environment, Climate Change, and Disaster Management

A Complete Guide to the Environment, Climate Change, and Disaster Management
Author: Rupak Dey
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Total Pages: 656
Release: 2023-08-18
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1527528634

The environment and climate change are the most important issues in the modern world. This book will contribute to a better understanding of concepts in the field of the environment and other related fields, as well as assisting students in scoring higher marks in a number of competitive exams. This book is focused on the environment, including subjects like environmental ecology, hydrogeology, bio-diversity, natural hazards and disaster management, climate change and other environmental problems. Some of the topics discussed in the book include environmental laws, soil science, natural disasters, the Earth's internal structure, sea floor spreading, plate tectonics, food chains, carbon sequestration, agriculture, ecological succession, and government and non-governmental organizations working in the field of environmental issues, among others.

Auditing in the Food Industry

Auditing in the Food Industry
Author: M Dillon
Publisher: Elsevier
Total Pages: 228
Release: 2001-07-12
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 1855736179

The food industry faces an unprecedented level of scrutiny. Consumers are not only concerned with the safety and quality of food products but also the way in which they are produced. At the same time the food industry has developed new ways of assuring appropriate standards for its products and their methods of production, developing systems such as TQM and HACCP to identify and manage key steps in production. These new methods require new skills in auditing. Auditing in the food industry provides an authoritative guide to the range of standards and the auditing skills they demand.Part one sets the scene with an introductory chapter reviewing developments in standards affecting the food industry. There then follows chapters on how retailers audit their suppliers and how governments have moved from a traditional inspection role to one of 'regulatory verification' with its emphasis on auditing the robustness of a business's own systems for managing safety and quality.Part two examines the key aspects of safety and quality. A first chapter reviews the ways retailers assess supplier HACCP systems. There is then a chapter reviewing TQM systems that provides a context for a discussion of auditing techniques for HACCP-based quality systems. A final chapter looks at standards governing the analytical methods used in safety and quality control.Part three considers newer standards that are becoming increasingly important in the food industry. There are chapters on benchmarking an organisation against others as a way of improving performance, auditing the impact of food processing operations on the environment and auditing organic food processing.Auditing in the food industry is a valuable guide to the range of standards facing the food industry and the ways it can audit, and thus improve the quality of its performance.

Safety, Health and Environmental Auditing

Safety, Health and Environmental Auditing
Author: Simon Watson Pain
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 298
Release: 2018-02-13
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 1351366823

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