About
You will learn
- How to assess compliance with federal, state, and local requirements
- How to organize the audit process and prepare an effective audit report
- What to do with the audit results
- How to implement changes in the regulations
- How to determine which environmental and safety laws apply to your facility
- Procedures for attaining and maintaining compliance
- How to determine which new regulations will affect your facility
- Which training and recordkeeping requirements apply to your operations
Who should attend?
Anyone responsible for conducting audits or preparing facilities to be audited or who wants to reduce penalties using EPA’s self-audit program, including:
- Environmental, health, and safety managers
- Environmental auditors
- Plant managers
- Facility managers
- Anyone who needs a better understanding of the
- requirements of environmental, health, and safety
- laws and regulations
Course Topics
Basic Auditing Principles
- Benefits and types of audits
- Elements of an effective audit program
Ground Rules for Auditors
- Auditors’ responsibilities
- Health and safety issues
- Confidentiality
Audit Scope and Objectives
- Environmental compliance
- Health and safety
Planning Ahead for an Effective Audit
- How to set benchmarks and plan your audit program
- Audit team selection
- How to find state and local regulations
- How to prepare checklists and working documentation
- When and how to notify the facility
- How to compile and review background information
- Clean Air Act (CAA)
- Clean Water Act (CWA)
- Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA)
- Hazardous and Solid Waste Amendments (HSWA)
- RCRA Subtitle I—Underground Storage Tanks
- Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and
- Liability Act (CERCLA)
- Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act (EPCRA)
- OSHA Hazard Communication Standard (HazCom)
- Hazardous Waste Operations and Emergency Response (HAZWOPER)
- Hazardous Materials Transportation Act (HMTA)
- Chemical Hygiene Plans
- Confined Spaces and Lockout/Tagout
- Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)
- Process Safety Management (PSM)
- RCRA Corrective Action Programs (CAP) and CERCLA
Liability and Legal Issues
- Responsibility to report violations
Reports of Audit Results
- How to structure the audit report to company requirements
- Types of audit findings and how to present them
- Ways to recommend corrective actions
- How and to whom to distribute the audit report
Closing Out – Corrective Action
- Responsibilities of the auditors
- Responsibilities of the facility
- When and how to schedule follow-ups
- How to monitor corrective action
Training Methodology
Pathways Training and consulting adopts the newest techniques of human resources Training and consulting and, with the following:
- Theoretical lectures are delivered via PowerPoint and visual displays (videos and short films)
- Making scientific evaluation to the trainee (before and after)
- Brainstorming and role-playing
- Using case studies related to the scientific material being delivered and the trainees' work.
- The participants get the scientific and practical material printed and on CDs and Flash memories.
- Preparing records and reports of the participants' attendance and results, with a general evaluation of the training program.
- A group of the best trainers and experts in all fields and specialties professionally prepares the scientific material.
- After finishing the course, the participants get certificates of attendance signed, certified, and issued by pathways Training and consulting.
- Our training programs start at 9:00 o'clock in the morning and end at 2:00 in the afternoon, with snack buffet during the lectures.
- Providing a lunch buffet during the training program period, with organizing a lunch party on the training program final day for taking some photos and certificate awarding.
