BEAC Standards Exposed for Comment
Essential
to the profession and to guidance issued by The Board of Environmental, Health
and Safety Auditor Certifications (BEAC®) is the Performance and
Program Standards for the Professional Practice of Environmental, Health &
Safety Auditing (Standards).
To view the revised Standards (in English only), download here.
The Exposure Draft will be open for
comment for a period of 90 days, beginning February 1, 2008 and ending April 30, 2008.
How to Provide
Feedback
Please submit your comments no later than April 30, 2008. When providing feedback,
please reference the heading and numbering system used in the exposure draft.
Choose one of these methods to
submit your comments:
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By e-mail to info@beac.org Please include “Standards Comments” on the subject line.
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By fax to +1-407-830-7495
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By mail to:
BEAC
The revised Standards provide greater clarity,
transparency, and ease of use. They have
been updated to reflect the dramatic changes the auditing profession has
undergone over the past few years. In updating the Standards, the following matters were considered:
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Boards of directors are being held accountable for the adequacy
and effectiveness of their organizations’ systems of EH&S control and
quality of performance.
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Members of senior management are relying upon EH&S auditing
as a means of supplying objective analyses, appraisals, recommendations,
counsel, and information on the organization’s controls and performance.
In light of such
matters, the purposes of the Standards
are to:
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Impart an understanding of the role and responsibilities of
EH&S auditing to all levels of management, boards of directors, public
bodies, internal & external auditors and related professional
organizations.
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Establish the basis for the guidance and measurement of EH&S
auditing performance.
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Improve the practice and advance the profession of EH&S
auditing.
BEAC is an
international association dedicated to advancing the professional development
of the individual environmental, health & safety auditor and the
environmental, health &safety profession. This is a new version of the BEAC
Standards for the auditing
profession.