BEAC Certified Professional Environmental Auditor - CPEA Exam Practice Test

Companies should develop a procedure that includes steps for dealing with these visits. The procedure will deal with items that should be covered prior to, during, and after the inspection. Plant management should have clear guidance on:

Environmental damage:

A "clean" environmental audit:

Any audit program must have some bounds under which it operates. Someone must decide which facilities are audited, what they are audited against, and what type of audits will be conducted. In general, audit programs will be responsible for auditing the facility types, for instance:

An audit program is first and foremost a verification program. It is not meant to replace existing environmental management systems at the corporate (e.g., regulatory updating), division (e.g., capital planning for pollution control expenditures) or plant (e.g., NPDES discharge monitoring) levels. Indeed, the program should be designed to verify that these environmental management systems do, in fact, exist and are in use. On the positive side, audits can result in a number of significant benefits, including:

The major advantage of a product audit compared to a system or process audit is:

Contamination of property poses a risk to lenders due to:

Directors and officers of a corporation:

A product quality audit always requires: