Partnering in industrial environmental compliance audits
- Morrison and Hecker L.L.P., Kansas City, MO (United States)
- Environmental Resources Management, Overland Park, KS (United States)
Industrial environmental compliance audits are complex reviews of the environmental procedures and manufacturing processes in use at a given facility. Effective compliance audits require a multi-discipline partnering approach to achieve sustainable results. Some audits fail to satisfy client expectations or accomplished the desired objectives when precise services either are not specified or when the specified scope of work is exceeded. Because unprotected audit reports can be obtained through the litigation process, absent a regulatory audit privilege, many industrial clients continue to view compliance audits with distrust. A partnering approach is advocated since a strong attorney-consultant-plant audit team appears to be the solution to this challenge, enabling the compliance audit to remain a useful management and environmental tool. This paper briefly reviews the social and regulatory background and rationale for the increase in industrial audits t both the plant and corporate level. The nature, extent and basic concepts of the compliance audit in industrial settings are briefly discussed. The audit partnering strategy is reviewed including the legal, operational, and scientific aspects of audit design; selection of audit procedures (ranging from plant observations to records reviews, and the use of checklists and written and verbal reports); the composition of the audit team; and the functions and obligations of the attorney, corporate, plant, and environmental consultant team members.
- OSTI ID:
- 585763
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-9705104--
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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