Certified Professional Environmental Auditor Practice Tests and PDFs

An audit program is first and foremost a verification program. It is not meant to replace existing environmental management systems at the corporate (e.g., regulatory updating), division (e.g., capital planning for pollution control expenditures) or plant (e.g., NPDES discharge monitoring) levels. Indeed, the program should be designed to verify that these environmental management systems do, in fact, exist and are in use. On the positive side, audits can result in a number of significant benefits, including:

Environmental auditing has been developed for sound business reasons, particularly as a means:

A CMS under the policy is defined as an “entity’s documented systematic efforts, appropriate to the size and nature of its business, to prevent, detect and correct violations” through the following CMS criteria: meet regulatory requirements procedures

Audit programs are typically designed to meet one or more of the following objectives Except:

An audit program is first and foremost a verification program. It is not meant to replace existing environmental management systems at the corporate (e.g., regulatory updating), division (e.g., capital planning for pollution control expenditures) or plant (e.g., NPDES discharge monitoring) levels. Indeed, the program should be designed to verify that these environmental management systems do, in fact, exist and are in use. However, these benefits of audit can be offset by some real and potential costs including: capital expenditures

An effective environmental auditing system will likely include all of the following general elements Except: findings objectives

Section 3 of the General Principles Guideline (14010) requires that “the audit should only be undertaken if, after consultation with the client, it is the lead auditor’s opinion that:”

An auditing program is also one of many tools needed to develop and maintain an effective environmental management program. But identification of the deficiencies in compliance and management is only the first step. An organization must be willing to correct violations and other deficiencies and root causes in order to achieve improved results. If an organization is unwilling to act upon the discovered deficiencies, the audits may become: