Auditing Services

The environmental audit is an effective management tool for environmental quality assessments, compliance checks, management system evaluations, waste management activities and investigations of potentially contaminated sites.

An audit is commonly conducted to identify compliance or environmental issues at the time of transfer of ownership of property or industrial operations. Audits are an essential tool to define current performance, identify problems and initiate corrective action.

They are an important step for company management to demonstrate due diligence and manage environmental risks and liability.

DMC environmental management team can undertake a range of audits for a variety of industry including:

• Phase One “Due Diligence” Audits
• Compliance Audits
• Environmental Management Audits
• Environmental Management Systems Audits
• Environmental Performance Audits
• Environmental Impairment Liability Audit
• Facility Process Audits

Environmental Compliance Audits can assist a company in determining compliance status and through root cause analysis, identify underlying issues.

An environmental compliance audit is a diagnostic tool for evaluating a company's current compliance with applicable local, state, and federal regulations, as well as industry recognized best management practices. Companies may reduce their environmental risk through performing periodic environmental compliance audits, provided they develop and implement effective corrective action plans.

Audit reports identify the necessary actions that companies should take along with the findings and recommended corrective actions of the environmental compliance audit.

Protocols are a series of formal steps for conducting a test. This term has evolved through the professional practices of auditing and refers to the actual working document used by auditors to evaluate facility conditions against a given set of criteria. Audit protocols, developed from the local, state and federal regulatory requirements, provide guidelines ensuring the completion of the audit (for all locations) in a consistent, thorough, and comprehensive manner. The audit protocols contain the regulatory citations that correspond to the guidelines established in the protocol.

Onsite activities include interviews, record review and visual observations.