Environmental auditing originated in the 1970s in the United States and was introduced to other countries mainly by multinational corporations. It has historically been developed for industrial applications like the chemical and manufacturing industries. Environmental auditing is broadly defined and involves systematically evaluating an organization's environmental performance and compliance with policies. There are different types of environmental audits, including liability audits that assess compliance with legal obligations and management audits that verify environmental strategies meet objectives. Environmental auditing is integrated with environmental management systems and is becoming a standard tool, while pressures to disclose audit results are increasing.

1. ENVIRONMENTAL
AUDIT

2. BACKGROUND
• It originate in the united states in the
1970s.
• Environmental auditing was introduced
to UK and else where mainly by
MNCs who began to apply the audit
procedures.
• Historically it has been developed for
industrial( chemical and
manufacturing) applications.

3. DEFINITIONS
• The term environmental auditing is broad.
Private sector environmental auditing has been
variously defined as:
A management tool comprising a systematic,
documented, periodic and objective evaluation
of the performance of the organization ,
management system and processes designed to
protect the environment with the aim of:
1. Facilitating management control of practices
which may have impact on the environment
and
2. Assessing compliance with company policies.

4. ENVIRONMENTAL AUDITING
PRACTICE AND PROCEDURES
The more specific type of
environmental audit involves the
collection, collation, analysis,
interpretation and presentation of
information which is used to assess
performance against a set of
requirements or targets, related to
specific issues.

5. TYPES
1. Liability audit :-
Liability audit assess
compliance with legal obligations.
2. Management audit :-
Management audit verify that
an environmental strategy meet its stated
objectives.
3. Functional audit (activity or issue audit):-
An activity audit may
investigate specific area such as energy or
water use.

6. Environmental auditing and
environmental management
system(ems)
• An ems is a tool designed to enable organizations
to target , achieve and demonstrate continuous
improvement in environmental performance. It is
one integrated management process with a number
of stages , which includes environmental audit.

7. TRENDS AND FUTURE
DEVELOPMENTS
Audit programmes are becoming a standard
environmental management tool and pressures for
the disclosure of audit results are increasing.
The utility of environmental audits vary
from organization to organization.
Provide baseline information to enable
organizations to evaluate and manage
environmental change, threat and risk.
Environmental audits have traditionally
dealt with the environmental effects of industrial
process and, to a lesser extend , with resource
consumption.

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