Auditing for Environmental Compliance™
Prepare to lead internal compliance evaluations or strengthen your audit team capabilities with proven techniques, industry standards, and practical methods drawn from experience across hundreds of facility audits.
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Upcoming Course Dates
Auditing for Environmental Compliance™ is offered several times each year, most often in Annapolis, MD, and online via live virtual attendance. All sessions run two days and the course fee is $1,320, with discounts available for early registration, groups of three or more, government employees, students, and veterans. Corporate partnership discounts are also available.
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Course Description
Auditing for Environmental Compliance™ offers experienced auditors and those new to the internal audit practice an opportunity to better understand the audit process and become better positioned to improve your organization’s compliance position, control risks, improve internal controls, support environmental management systems, and identify pollution prevention opportunities.
Ensuring your audit program delivers real value requires an effective audit approach and an understanding of proven audit techniques and industry audit standards. While many Aarcher Institute courses focus on specific environmental laws and requirements, this course focuses on the principles and realities of the environmental compliance auditing process.
This course is presented by a Certified Professional Environmental Auditor (CPEA) with more than 30 years of experience performing more than 500 audits for industrial and government facilities throughout the United States.
Information is presented in a series of well-crafted modules, interspersed with real-life scenarios, exercises, and opportunities for structured class discussion. This course has been refined over many presentations and demonstrates ever-increasing value to attendees. For those evaluating audit results from a management or leadership level, or exploring available options under the EPA Audit Policy, this course helps you better understand audit results and the range of potential benefits an audit program can provide.
Topics Covered
Auditing for Environmental Compliance™ covers the components of the environmental compliance audit process, proven techniques, industry standards, and practical methods for improving audit program value and organizational compliance.
- Audit Perspectives (Objectives, Benefits, Risks)
- Audit Program Standards
- Audit Privilege and Immunity Policies
- Auditor Ethics and Standards of Conduct
- Regulatory Foundation Elements
- Audit Process Overview
- Common Audit Process Elements
- Reporting Results (Options, Effectiveness)
- Improving Finding Quality
- Internal Controls and Root Causes
- Corrective Actions
- Building Audit Program Value
You Will Receive
Every participant leaves the Auditing for Environmental Compliance™ course with materials to support the development and improvement of environmental compliance audit programs. You will return with a course binder, useful references, example documents and other tools, presenter contact information for follow-up questions, and your notes from the presentations and discussions.
Printed Materials
Binder of presentation materials for later reference
Reference Materials
Electronic copies of key reference materials
Notes
Your notes from class discussions
Printed Certificate
Certificate of accomplishment to display and share
Presenters
All Aarcher Institute presenters are exclusive and present Aarcher Institute proprietary course content.
Auditing for Environmental Compliance™ is presented by an experienced environmental compliance auditor who has led audits for more than 500 facilities throughout the United States and has been approved by the Department of Justice, several USEPA regions, and multiple states as a third-party compliance evaluator in support of consent decree and compliance order auditing requirements.
Craig Schwarze
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