This document discusses environmental auditing, its objectives and benefits. It begins by defining environmental auditing as a management tool that inspects environmental management activities of industries to make them aware of cleaner technologies. The objectives of environmental auditing include enhancing environmental performance, optimizing resource use, evaluating waste characteristics, and ensuring regulatory compliance. Key activities of an environmental audit involve pre-audit planning, on-site assessment of records, interviews and inspections, and post-audit reporting. Benefits include improving pollution control, verifying legal compliance, and enhancing loss prevention. The document concludes that environmental auditing can help apply best practices to preserve the environment from industrial impacts.

1. ENVIRONMENTALAUDITING: ITS
BENEFITSAND COUNTERANCE
PRESENTED BY-
NATTHU SHRIRAME
M-TECH ENV. ENGG

2. CONTENTS
• Introduction
• Objectives Of Environmental Auditing
• Environmental Audit Scheme And Its Component
• Principle Areas Of Environmental Auditing
• Environmental Auditing Activities
• Advantages
• Suggestions
• Case Study
• conclusion

3. Background
• Environmental auditing is a management tool which
simply inspects the environmental management activities
performed by the industries or organizations and makes
them aware of new cleaner technology.
• For the impact of industries and their product on natural
resources and environmental quality it is necessary to
have “Environmental Audit” to ensure sustainable
industrial developments.

4. INTRODUCTION
• Pollution now is an inevitable consequence of modern
industrial technology, rapid and convenient transport but
excessive pollution may interfere with man’s health and
his mental, social and economic wellbeing.
• There is now a clarion call from every nook of the
society that “save the nation from this menace the
pollution”.
• The term auditing is known to us in financial accounts
and records are examined.
• Environmental audit is for the impact of the industries
and their products on natural resources and environmental
quality.
• It is necessary to have ‘Environmental Audit’ to ensure
sustainable industrial developments.

5. OBJECIVES OF ENVIRONMENTAL
AUDITING
1. An environmental audit programme which is designed
and implemented properly can enhance an industry’s
environmental performance.
2. Monitoring the scale of optimum utilization of the
resources and evaluating the company at national &
international level.
3. To suggest for using alternative energy for the
conservation of energy resources.
4. Evaluation of waste water quality and determination of
waste water characteristics & their effects on the living
system.
5. Classification of the categories of solid waste hazardous
waste their sources, quantities & characteristics.

6. 6. Introduction and implementation of time saving
technologies in production.
7. Maintains of Labour / Occupational health &
medicine.
8. Proper documentation of environmental
compliance status.
9. To help in minimizing the wastes through modern
cleaner technologies.
10. Regular environmental auditing once in a year
will help in producing environmentally educated
&technically sound

7. ENVIRONMENTALAUDIT SCHEME
AND ITS COMPONENTS
Environmental system is with a broad aim for a green
environment.
• It helps in reducing waste.
• It helps in assessing compliance with regulatory
requirement.
• It also helps in prevention control of effect of
pollutant.
• It promotes relationship between qualified
technician professionals, industries, industrial
association, public authorities etc.

8. PRINCIPLEAREAS OF
ENVIRONMENTALAUDITING
• Material Audit
• Energy Audit
• Water Audit
• Health and Safety audit
• Environmental Quality Audit
• Waste Audit
• Engineering Audit
• Compliance Audit

10. ENVIRONMENTALAUDIT
ACTIVITIES
• 1. Pre-audit activities -These include selection of the
expert team and development of a plan.
• There are four key activities.
• Submitting pre-visit questionnaire of the facility.
• Reviewing relevant regulation.
• Defining audit scope and team responsibilities
• Reviewing audit check lists.
• 2. On-site activities-Meeting of the team with the
appropriate with the appropriate personnel of the unit The
3 primary functions on site activities are
• Record &documentation review
• Interview with staff
• Physical inspection of the facilities

11. • 3. Post-audit Activities: Development of raw material
balance analysis for each process unit of the industry
highlighting analysis for each process unit of the
industry highlighting the proposed utilization of raw
material and ideas regarding reuse can be thought of.
• a. Issue of draft report
• b. Issue of final report

13. ADVANTAGES
• Preparation of Environmental management plan.
• Assessment of environmental input and risks.
• Identifying areas of strength and weakness for
improvements.
• Evaluation of pollution control.
• Verification of compliance with laws.
• Assuring safety of plant, environment & human beings.
• Enhancement of loss prevention, manpower
development and marketing.
• Budgeting for pollution control, waste prevention,
reduction, recycling and reuse.
• Providing an opportunity for management to give credit
for good environmental performance.

14. SUGGESTIONS
• For popularization of environmental auditing in India and
to serve as an important environmental management tool
for the improvement of companies and industries
• To complete the environment legislation and quality
adoption of cleaner technologies. For prevention and
abatement of different types of pollution by the Indian
corporate sector and organizations.
• An environment audit report must be published annually
by the companies, mandatory for all Indian companies.
• The environment report must reach the public, so that it
would succeed in minimizing the communication
between public and industries.

15. CASE STUDY
Environmental Audit of Sugar Factory:
A Case Study of Kumbhi Kasari Sugar Factory, Kolhapur
Rao T. B., Chonde S. G., Bhosale P. R., Jadhav A. S. and
Raut P. D. Department of Environmental Science, Shivaji
University, Kolhapur
The sugar industry plays a very important role in India’s
national economy. As all stages of sugar production are
water intensive and discharging wastewater containing
high level of oil, suspended solids, organic matter and
chemicals and therefore the sugar industry is one of the
most water polluting industries. Therefore conducting
‘Environmental Audit’ in a sugar factory is no longer an
option but a sound precaution and a proactive measure in
today’s heavily regulated environment.

16. The environmental audit conducted at Kumbhi-Kasari
Sugar Factory will be effective to reduce energy
consumption to reduce the consumption of the water and
use bagasse as fuel. It saves the power and improved
environmental protection for sustainable industrial
operations.
Thus, Environmental Audit plays an important role to
have check on pollution control.
Further studies on Environmental Audit with reference
To various types of the industries are needed in order to
study various process, activities and their positive or
negative impact on the environment.

17. CONCLUSION
Environmental audit is carried out to provide an indication
to company management about how the environmental
Organization system and equipment’s are performing.
As a result the best practicable means can be applied to
preserve air, water, soil, plant and animal life from the
adverse effect.

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