In environmental audit may reveal:

Environmental legislation:

Audit programs are typically designed to meet one or more of the following objectives Except:

A CMS under the policy is defined as an "entity's documented systematic efforts, appropriate to the size and nature of its business, to prevent, detect and correct violations" through the following CMS criteria:

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: