WHY CONDUCT A VOLUNTARY ENVIRONMENTAL AUDIT? Environmental audits enable businesses and organizations to systematically uncover wasteful and inefficient activities, and minimize or eliminate exposure to regulatory penalties when potential violations are discovered. The benefits of environmental audits include: Systematic discovery and correction of operational inefficiencies and waste, which may result in cost savings Defining compliance liabilities, including the limitations of individual and corporate liability Providing a safer workplace Providing information that can be used in the development of a crisis management plan Providing information that can be used to assist in overall corporate planning Elimination or substantial reduction of gravity-based penalties Reduced exposure to criminal prosecution Protection of audits against disclosure for enforcement investigations

WHY CONDUCT A VOLUNTARY ENVIRONMENTAL AUDIT?
Environmental audits enable businesses and organizations to systematically uncover wasteful and inefficient activities, and minimize or eliminate exposure to regulatory penalties when potential violations are discovered. The benefits of environmental audits include:

• Systematic discovery and correction of operational inefficiencies and waste, which may result in cost savings
• Defining compliance liabilities, including the limitations of individual and corporate liability
• Providing a safer workplace
• Providing information that can be used in the development of a crisis management plan
• Providing information that can be used to assist in overall corporate planning
• Elimination or substantial reduction of gravity-based penalties
• Reduced exposure to criminal prosecution
• Protection of audits against disclosure for enforcement investigations