What is environmental audit?

The term 'environmental auditing' is broad. Many definitions cover auditing in the private and public sector.

• compliance audit - the most common type of audit consisting of checks against environmental legislation and company policy;
• issues audit - an evaluation of how a company's activities relate to an environmental issue or (e.g. global pollution, energy use) or an evaluation of a specific issue (e.g. buildings, supplies);
• health and safety audit - an assessment of risks and contingency planning (sometimes merged with environmental auditing because of the interconnected impacts of industrial processes and hazards);
• site audit - an audit of a particular site to examine actual or potential environmental problems;
• corporate audit - an audit of the whole company and its polices, structures, procedures and practices;
• due diligence audit - an assessment of potential environmental and financial risks and liabilities carried out before a company merger or site acquisition or divestiture (e.g. contaminated land remediation costs);
• activity or operational audit - an assessment of activities that may cross company departments or units (e.g. energy or waste management) and
• product or life cycle audit - an analysis of environmental impacts of a product throughout all stages of its design, production, use and disposal, including its reuse and recycling (cradle to grave).

Environmental audit found that to achieve

The following objectives:

1. Trace commitment to the basic requirements costs

To preserve the environment,

2. Development of environmental awareness for employees in the organization,

3. enable management to develop plans take into account the limits

A certain amount of waste at the production,

4. Evaluation of the gap between the input and output to know the reasons for the shortage,

5. Ensure commitment to the legislative and legal requirements,

6. Develop extent permitted by the corrupted and losses (fairly ideal),

7. identify potential and actual commitments,

8. enable management to modify plans.

Environmental Audit knew that (management tool includes systematic evaluation is objective, periodically, reliable performance and economic unity of management and equipment related to environmental protection and in order to assist in the achievement of administrative control over the environmental and economic assessment of the extent of commitment to the unit's policies and applicable laws requirements) practices

The Audit the activities of the company to view, the organization is achieving the market share and products are under demand.  The possible strategies required to take by the management and possible solutions.

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