Environmental, Health and Safety Auditing Handbook - Second Edition

Harrison, L. Lee

ISBN 10: 0070269041 / ISBN 13: 9780070269040

Published by McGraw-Hill Professional Publishing, New York, 1995

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647 Pages Indexed. The single defect is the previous owner's name on front endpaper. No other marks or stamps to this otherwise brand new book with flawless interior text pages. Environmental audits? We wrote the book! That's right: McGraw-Hill actually launched environmental auditing when the first edition of Environmental, Health and Safety Auditing Handbook appeared in 1984. Now Lee Harrison's fully revised second edition pulls together a decade's worth of changes while retaining the clear, simple auditing guidelines that have made this guide such a success. You'll see how to use auditing as an assurance tool for company officials, as a way to identify and reduce risk, and as a foundation for assessing management systems and internal controls. And you'll get the step-by-step procedures you need to develop your own EHS auditing manual of principles, standards, goals and objectives; gain people's trust and cooperation during interviews; use experts from outside the company, report audit findings; develop follow-up and corrective procedures; insure audit confidentiality; and much more.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Environmental, Health and Safety Auditing Handbook - Second Edition
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Professional Publishing, New York
• Publication Date: 1995
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0070269041
• ISBN 13: 9780070269040
• Binding: Hard Back
• Edition: Second Edition
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket

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Synopsis

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. The text contains step-by-step guidelines, which show how to conduct an environmental audit based on the experiences of the chemical, pharmaceutical, oil and gas, automotive, electric power, forest products, waste disposal, biotechnology, aerospace, banking and other industries. Health and safety auditing and global auditing programmes are included. After covering an environmental, health and safety audit, the guide explores: EHS auditing as an assurance tool for corporate officers and directors, how an EHS audit can help identify and reduce risks, how to assess operating management systems and internal controls, and how to develop principles and standards. Finally, the reader is guided through the audit process from start to finish with descriptions of developing goals, interviewing staff, tapping outside sources, reporting findings, conducting a follow-up and taking corrective action. Also provided are both the federal approach and an industry-specific approach to EHS auditing.