What Is Environmental Audit And What Is Its Importance?

An environmental audit is a systematic process to assess a company’s responsibility towards the environment, compliance, and deficits in complying with those responsibilities. The auditors evaluate the business's potential environmental risks and point out corrective actions to bridge the gap by a comprehensive analysis. It applies to a wide range of industries related to energy, transport, manufacturing, or B2B companies.

The policies look after:

• Carbon-dioxide emissions
• Affluent discharge
• Environmental hazards with any byproduct(for example, plastic packaging material or inadequate disposal of byproducts.)
• Energy consumption
• Effects on biodiversity
• Pollution

Why Should B2B Companies Or Industries Consider Environmental Audits?
The environmental audit benifits environment as well as business in the following ways:

Environment:

• It reduces pollution
• It helps reduce waste production
• It encourages efficient resource use
• It encourages efficient resource use

Bussiness:

• It builds reputation and confidence in going green.
• It encourages balanced industrial growth.
• It highlights significant environmental risks in the recommendation, which may be unforeseen in internal audits.
• It saves businesses from hefty fines.
• It gives hassle-free and seamless business transactions一free from governmental interference for environmental norms compliance.
• It improves safety and health standards

Environmental Audit Process:

• STEP 1: Schedule Audit

The Environment management representative EMR schedules call and audit process with a relative governmental organization. They intend to schedule the timing and mannerism of audit conduction.

• STEP 2: Plan Audit

The EMR appoints a lead auditor(EMR themself can become lead if needed) who will help conduct the audit process. Meanwhile, the area to be audited is self-assesed internally, necessary corrections are made, and the documents relating to the environmental audit are groomed.

• STEP 3: Audit

The Audit team personnel from government authority will conduct an audit and examine the industry's space, process, and disposal methodology.

• STEP 4: Audit Report/Recommendations

The auditor prepares evidence-based auditory reports and shares it with higher concerned authorities such as contractors, reviewers, and independent higher auditory authorities.

• STEP 5: Audit Follow-up

The report or recommendation is shared with EMR. If the auditor has passed the compliance reports with no recommendations, an environmental audit certificate will be issued; however, if recommendations are made, the audit certificate will be issued only after complete compliance of recommendations.

Environmental Audit Process:

• Increase hospital productivity and make day-to-day routine very easy for staff and patients.
• Enhance and streamline communication among departments of the hospital for smooth flow of health care services
• Improve patient's experience of communicating or requesting services from the hospital.
• Simplify payments and billing for both management and patients.
• Streamline management access to reports and structured data of staff performance.

How Feasible is Environmental Audit in India?

India is a vast and fast-growing economy in the world. But, unfortunately, among the world’s ten most polluted cities, three are from India. Therefore it is important to have an environmental assessment at every possible step. Industries, factories, and businesses pose a high risk of polluting the environment by inadequate disposal of affluents or choking emissions. Therefore, environmental audit plays a vital role in checking the safe disposal of waste and maintaining harmony in nature.

Foreword

It is very important to check our actions today, to omit harmful consequences later. Pollution is proliferating due to unchecked measures; hence, our responsibility is to reduce it in all possible ways. Checking and blocking pollution from the point source will reap tenfold benefits. Understanding harmful impacts, the government has already rolled up its sleeves and has become active to check and punish the liable authorities.
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