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Environmental Auditing Services
Whether your organisation is a micro SME or a large corporation, it does have some impacts - positive and negative - on the environment. Before spending time, money, efforts on an environmental action programme, you need to ensure that your hard work will bring benefits to your business. An initial environmental audit will enable you to prioritise your efforts. Subsequently, regular audits will monitor performance over time.
Risk Audits
A systematic review of activities, systems, products, services and premises to ascertain where potential environmental risks exist. Legislative compliance and pollution prevention are given particular attention, with risks to the business arising from suppliers and customers also comprising an important element.
Management Audits
Many organisations adopt an environmental policy and put into place various environmental improvement measures, sometimes organised into an environmental management system (EMS). Maintaining enthusiasm and improving results over time require regular monitoring, both of the activities and the management system. Regular environmental management audits must be scheduled. If the EMS is to be certified to a recognised standard (ISO 14001, EMAS or other), auditing is mandatory.
Specific Activity Audits
Some organisations may be more particularly concerned about specific areas of their activities, such as wastes, energy, emissions or suppliers` green credentials. A specific audit focuses on a particular area of a concern and identify all relevant issues - positive and negative - for action. Activity audits can be carried out on an ad-hoc basis or according to a recurrent schedule. They can also be used to benchmark the organisation`s performance against known standards or best practices.
Audits for Environmental Permits
Applying for a permit under the Environmental Permit Regulations involves an audit of a processing facility against Best Available Techniques (BAT) – a mixture of site-specific, sector-specific and generic best practice standards. EPR audits cover a range of environmental techniques as well as hard and soft control systems while establishing the baseline from which regulators will measure your site’s improvement. EuGeos has considerable experience of compiling Environmental Permit Applications in the food sector, delivering rigorous applications that provide a practical base for ongoing compliance.
Whether you need to establish a baseline, monitor environmental performance or benchmark your organisation`s achievements against best practice, EuGeos` registered auditors deliver environmental audits which inform and encourage practical action.