ISO 14001 LA case studies
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The PECB Certified ISO 14001 Lead Auditor credential is for professionals who plan, lead and report audits of an environmental management system (EMS) built on ISO 14001. PECB's training course combines the requirements of ISO/IEC 17021-1, the recommendations of ISO 19011 and other auditing best practices into a single methodology for planning and conducting ISO 14001 conformity assessment audits. The ISO 14001 LA case studies are 5 cases and about 4,213 words.
1The Plating Shop That Re-scored Its Own Acid
Nordhaven Metal Finishing runs a job-shop plating line with 140 staff over two shifts. Its aspect register scores each aspect as likelihood multiplied by severity, with a total of 12 or more defined as significant.
886 words, about 4 min2Scope, Sampling and a Utility That Wants to Stay at Home
You are lead auditor for an initial certification audit of a regional water utility. The proposed scope is 'treatment and distribution of drinking water; collection and treatment of wastewater'.
846 words, about 4 min3Six Months of Identical pH Readings
At a food processing plant discharging to sewer under a consent of pH 6.0 to 9.0, the auditor is shown the daily effluent pH log. Every entry for six months falls between 6.8 and 7.2, including days when the inline monitor logged 5.2 and the regulator's spot sample recorded 5.4.
779 words, about 4 min4Please Close It, We Fixed It Last Tuesday
During a surveillance audit of a chemical distributor, you raise a major nonconformity against 8.2. The bund around the 30,000 litre caustic tank has a crack and no drill has been run for 26 months; separately, a new ammonia refrigeration plant was installed seven months ago and no assessment of emergency situations was done for it.
831 words, about 4 min5Thirty Per Cent Off the Internal Audit Programme
You manage the internal audit programme of a logistics group: five depots, two workshops, head office, 1,100 staff. Last year every one of the eight sites was audited for two days each, by the same three auditors.
871 words, about 4 min