Environmental Health and Safety Audits [Hardcover]

Lawrence B. Cahill (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 1, 2001 | ISBN-10: 0865878250 | ISBN-13: 978-0865878259 | Edition: 8th Edition

This expanded edition of Environmental Health and Safety Audits brings you up-to-date on changes in EPA and OSHA auditing policies, issues currently confronting auditing programs, and state-of-the-art strategies for managing and conducting audits.

The author discusses new developments in information generation and availability, including new chapters on meeting ISO 14000 auditing guidelines, auditing dilemmas, and auditing tips. He also includes new tools for building a successful audit program. Those tools include seven model program stages: EH&S audit program manual, pre-audit questionnaire, pre-audit checklist, EH&S audit opening conference presentation, environmental audit report, EH&S audit appraisal questionnaire, and management report.

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About the Author

Lawrence B. Cahill is a Certified Professional Environmental Auditor with Master Certification, and a Principal in ERM's Business Integration Group in Exton, Pennsylvania. He has over twenty-five years of professional EH&S experience in industry and consulting. Mr. Cahill has worked for Fortune 500 companies such as DuPont, Exxon, BF Goodrich, Colgate-Palmolive, Hercules, Eastman Kodak, Occidental Petroleum, Bristol-Myers Squibb, and TRW. He has conducted hundreds of audits, and has trained thousands of people in auditing skills all over the world, from Asia and Africa to South America, and throughout Europe and North America. --This text refers to an alternate Hardcover edition.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 713 pages
• Publisher: Government Institutes; 8th Edition edition (January 1, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0865878250
• ISBN-13: 978-0865878259
• Product Dimensions: 10 x 7.4 x 1.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #403,196 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Cahill's Environmental Auditing Textbook Review, September 8, 2007

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Bruce Hill (Eastern Kentucky University) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Environmental Health and Safety Audits (Hardcover)

Overall, it is a very useful textbook offering a generic approach to environmental audits which can easily be expanded to health, safety and security issues. The author(s) does a very thorough job in discussing the activities and protocols involved with the 3 phases of the auditing process: 1. Pre-audit Phase; 2. On-site Audit Phase; and 3. Post-Audit Phase. The textbook utilizes the input from several different authors which results in some duplication of information, but repetition is good in this much changing field.

Needs to be updated and expanded with respect to a few more current issues: Impact of the Sarbanes-Oxley law, current ISO 14001 issues, plus some others. A more detailed chapter on Root-Cause Analysis would be beneficial with more examples. This type of analysis seems to be the most prevalent in deciding upon Corrective Actions and Recommendations needed to mitigate future deficiencies of a similar nature.

An instructor's manual containing some general or specific discussion questions for each chapter would also be helpful. The references contained within each chapter are useful. Placing current "Insights" - articles or case law relevant to the chapter material would also enable the authors to keep current with fewer new chapters in subsequent editions. More sample examples of Audit Instruments (checklists) and detailed suggestions for Corrective Action follow-up would be useful.
This textbook is currently being used at the Master's level assuming little or no pre-requisite knowledge of the auditing process. It is being taught in on-campus and on-line classes.

Bruce Hill, PhD
Risk Management