EHS COMPLIANCE EVALUATION AND AUDITING

RAS EHS will assist you to develop beyond compliance systems to help your business to be proactive and optimize your business needs.  Managing Environment, Health and Safety (EHS) systems is critical to sustaining operational performance and efficiency. At the same time, EHS auditing and compliance assurance is required to verify and monitor established systems and to uphold stakeholder confidence. RAS EHS develops and implements industry-specific EHS compliance evaluation programs and audit protocols that meet or exceed regulatory requirements while assuring conformance to management systems and subscribed standards.  By combining proven processes and diverse industry expertise, RAS EHS provides reliable, achievable and sustainable EHS Management Solutions.

Our EHS Compliance Evaluation and Auditing Services:

• Verifying that required programs are in place and in compliance with applicable federal (EPA) and state environmental and OSHA regulations;
• Verifying that management systems and programs are in place consistent with company policies, performance standards, and procedures;
  
• Assessing the effectiveness of existing management systems;
  
• Looking beyond immediate regulatory requirements with the intent of identifying and encouraging “best practices” and “continuous improvement” of EHS management programs.

Onsite audit will consist of the following basic elements:

• Opening Meeting
• Facility Walkthrough
  
• Records Review. Health and Safety records that audit team examines onsite include:
  
  • Exposure monitoring records (air contaminant sampling, noise and radiation dosimetry);
    
  • Other monitoring records (direct reading instrument measurement readings, area noise surveys, area radiation surveys, heat stress monitoring);
    
  • Training records (hazard communication, respiratory protection, noise control);
    
  • Hazardous materials records (material safety data sheets, chemical inventories, storage requirements);
    
  • OSHA 300 logs (injury and illness summary);
    
  • Specific toxic or hazardous substance programs (asbestos program, lead-based paint program);
    
  • Past health and safety audit reports and follow-up documentation; and
    
  • Other health and safety documents requested prior to the audit but not received by the audit team.
• Interviews with Key Staff
• Detailed Facility Assessment
• Audit Team Communication
• Closing Meeting
• Audit Documentation and Reports
• Documentation
• Report Preparation
  • Executive Summary
    
  • Introduction
    
  • Statement of Findings/Observations
    
  • Recommendation