What do you mean by Environment Audit ? Prepare a process chart for conducting Environment Audit.

Environmental audit is a general term that can reflect various types of evaluations intended to identify environmental compliance and management system implementation gaps, along with related corrective actions and it has a wide variety of meanings. Environmental Audit refers to verification and assessment of environmental measures in an organisation. There are generally two different types of environmental audits: compliance audits and management systems audits. These audits are intended to review the site's/ company's legal compliance status in an operational context. Compliance audits generally begin with determining the applicable compliance requirements against which the operations will be assessed. This tends to include Central Law, State Laws, permits and local laws. In some cases, it may also include requirements within legal action. Need for Environment Audit Business can assess the environmental impact of their operations. To ensure that the corporate decisions are not spoiling company's market for its products, destroying the source of essential supply, damaging or polluting the very infrastructure. It highlights areas of inefficiencies in process e.g. Where the amount of resources used are out of proportion to the amount of saleable items/services produced. It highlights excessive wastages. It provides opportunity for business to decrease its wastes output and reduce the cost of waste treatment or waste disposal. Process of Environment Audit Understanding the industrial activity and Pre-audit or planning stage Collection of background information about the entity, definition of objectives and scope of audit, formation of audit team and development of audit plan and protocols. On-site or Field Audit Communicate the objectives of the audit to key faculties and schedule necessary meetings and interviews, identify areas of concern, site / facility inspection, evidence / records / document review, staff interviews, initial review of findings. Assessing the impact and post-audit Final evaluation of findings, submit preliminary report with type and magnitude of impact on the environment, get approval of management, introduce the findings to the auditees, submit final environment audit report along with short/long term acceptability. Follow up or review Verify the action taken on audit findings and recommendations.