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Audit Services
The
Environmental Safety and Health (ES&H) compliance
assessments process is a tool to assist clients in
the fulfillment to inspect all perspective facilities.
The over view of compliance assessment procedures
document provides a recommended “blueprint”
for performing assessments and are based on experience
gained through performing numerous assessments of
commercial and industrial facilities throughout the
previous ten (10) years. This process will attempt
to provide an integrated approach for achieving the
following major program objectives:
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Facilitating the accurate characterization of corporate
environmental and occupational safety and health issues
requiring corrective action and resources.
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Ensuring that inspection processes are implemented
consistently and appropriately throughout the all
corporate locations.
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Optimizing the use of corporate resources through
efficient, coordinated interactions among inspection
participants.
Assessment
Program (AP)
Goals
A
corporation’s goal is to assist clients in achieving
and maintaining environmental and safety compliance
at its facilities. Our philosophy of ES&H assessments
is summarized below:
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The assessment should measure a facility’s status
with regulatory compliance as a minimum standard.
The root cause(s) of deficiencies must be identified
to develop meaningful, workable solutions. Furthering
client’s business goals through safe, healthy
work environments is the overall desired outcome.
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The assessment should be objective and not structured
as a fault finding mission. With objective goals,
the root causes of deficiencies are more easily identified.
Also, the concerns and fears of facility personnel
are minimized. The assessment should include site
personnel in the process and structure recommended
solutions that involve site personnel in a positive
manner.
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The assessment should be conducted using a structured
set of protocols that are applied consistently by
experienced professionals. The protocols should not
be checklists but should provide support to the assessor’s
expertise.
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The assessment process should be a learning experience
for site personnel. The assessment should provide
site personnel with the opportunity to develop awareness
for the regulatory and internal policy issues that
are identified in their facility.
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The assessment personnel should prepare consistent
reports and data. This consistency will insure that
the client will be able to develop accurate budgets
and solutions for issues identified during the assessment
process.
A chieving
continuing compliance is predicated on a thorough
knowledge of the baseline status of each operational
facility in all aspects of its environmental and safety
programs. Mannus Corporation believes a meticulous
baseline assessment of E&SH programs is a necessary
first step in the compliance process. Any deficiencies
identified in the assessment should be organized and
managed in a database and reviewed at all levels to
determine progress toward internal goals.
The report generated by the assessment will provide
corporate facilities a bench mark of their compliance
status. The reports will present the deficiencies,
recommended solutions and detailed cost estimates.
The report process should be structured to allow the
client to arrive at solutions that are cost effective
and are advocated by the employees who would be responsible
for the implementation of new procedures or programs.
As a tool, ES&H assessments assist the
corporation in achieving its goals, which include:
• Maintaining Compliance with the requirements
of the Sarbanes-Oxley
• Internally assessing environmental program
and safety and health program effectiveness
• Justifying/prioritizing limited resources
(staffing, training, and budget)
• Assessing overall compliance with federal,
state, and local environmental and safety and health
regulations and agency directives
• Enhancing personnel knowledge on the importance
of ES&H issues
Benefits
The
assessment program benefits all corporate stakeholders
through improved compliance and minimized risk. Specifically,
the program:
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Provides a consistent tool across the corporation
to identify Environmental Safety and Health (ES&H)
problems, quantify required resources for corrective
actions and report resource needs to higher headquarters
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Measures ES&H performance against established
policies and regulations
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Recognizes compliance needs
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Identifies high risk areas for immediate attention
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Assists the corporation in prioritizing required corrective
actions and expenditures of limited resources
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