Audits provide an independent, expert view of a particular situation which 
provides insight and adds value to a company.
We perform many such audits including:
- Contaminated Sites
- Due Diligence
- Environmental Management Systems (EMS)
- Engineering Dangerous Goods
- Risk and Performance
- Specialist Audits
Our Auditors have performed audits on a wide variety of agricultural, residential, commercial and industrial sites both inland and coastal including: market gardens, landfi lls, manufacturing plants, steel recycling plants and foundries, sports stadiums, waste treatment facilities, concrete batching plants, service stations and fuel depots in many states.
Our Auditors are accredited in all States and Territories, have completed statutory and non-statutory audits and have been serving the Australia environmental industry for over 20 years.
Contaminated Site Audits
Contaminated site audits can be required by legislation (statutory audits) for redevelopment or rectification and/ or management of spills.
Contaminated site audits have become the most reliable method of ensuring compliance in developing contaminated sites in all of Australia with all states and territories now recognising the role and position.
The collective aims of the contaminated site auditing rationale is to provide a means for providing confi dence in ensuring protection of human health and the environment from pollutants.
The various audit systems adopted by the states and territories provide a somewhat even basis for development of contaminated sites, using consultants, auditors, planning departments, local and state government to ensure assessment and remediation methods are appropriate for the situation.
Common land uses which can cause contamination requiring investigations and audits include service stations, cattle dips, tanneries, wood treatment sites, landfills, fuel storage, industrial facilities and refuse tips.
Contaminated site audits are performed for many reasons, including:
- Change of land use (development opportunities);
- Response to a regulator notice (leaks, spills, license violations);
- In compliance with an voluntary assessment or remediation agreement (with the government);
- Migration of contaminants off the subject site; and
- Due diligence.
The auditor plays an important role in ensuring appropriate guidelines are followed.
Done properly, audited sites can be the most effective and protective means for site development projects.
Our auditors work to the highest standards, with statutory approved Audits to legislative recognised levels in all states and territories.
They are able to provide the definitive technical review, with Certificates or Statements of Audits required for a property ‘change of use’ in the various jurisdictions. Our auditors have specialised and proven auditing capabilities.
Their decisions have a significant potential impact on public health and/or the environment.
To this end, site auditors are considered to be the top level of contaminated land practitioners in the country.
There exist specific requirements and guidelines for statutory site audits(and other non-statutory site audits) by which the site auditor must abide, including notification, adherence to applicable laws and guidelines and independence.
Failure to comply with the legal requirements as a site auditor can result in significant monetary fines to the site auditor.
We have site auditors capable of performing statutory site audits.
Environmental Management Systems (EMS) Auditing
Our specialists have developed, advised and audited numerous Environmental Management Systems (EMS) across a wide range of organisations and industries in all Australian states and overseas.
The level of experience and expertise within our company enables us to:
- Rapidly identify where elements of a company’s EMS do not fully meet the requirements of the international standard ISO 14001 (GAP Analysis)
- Focus on high risk areas that represent real and substantive exposures;
- Readily advise on system implementation and maintenance problems within a company’s EMS; and
- Evaluate the likely success of integration of the EMS with the company’s existing business management systems (e.g. existing quality and/or safety systems)
Auditing of our diverse range of clients has required selected staff to perform ISO 14001 and ISO 9001 based audits on numerous clients ranging from maritime construction industries, trucking and transport factories and general aviation fire fighting establishments.
Whilst audits can be structured to be traditional third party audits, they can also be arranged so that they can be recognised as on the job training audits (second party audits).
Risk Performance Auditing
Risk based audits can incorporate environmental, safety and quality 
related risks using the methodology of AS 4360 (2004) standard
with special emphasis placed on residual risk and contemporary alternatives for limiting corporate and future liabilities.
Performance audits provide independent verifi cation that pollution control equipment and/or discharge streams of solid, liquid or gaseous waste to the environment or to sewer comply with licence limits and other regulatory conditions.
The audits can also be used to confi rm that conditions in the neighbouring environs comply with air quality and other standards.
Engineering Management and Dangerous Goods Audits
Our Engineering team provides:
- Site Safety Audits
- Compliance Audits to regulatory requirements
- Compliance Audits to Australian Standards
- Compliance Audits to Industry Codes of Practice
- Health and Risk based audits
- Environmental audits for plants and factories
- Energy Audits
International Cyanide Code – Auditing
In mid 2004 the International Cyanide Management Institute released a voluntary Code of Practice for the transport, storage, use and management of cyanide and cyanide solutions in the gold mining industry.
The Code aims to facilitate improvement in the global management of cyanide in the industry, to enhance the protection of communities and the natural environment near gold mining operations.
Signatories to the Code are required to undertake periodic independent audits of cyanide use at their operations.
We have engineering, chemical and environmental experts experienced in the gold mining industry, whom are qualified to both advise clients as they work towards compliance with the Code, and whom can undertake independent audits against the Cyanide Code.
Laboratory Audits 
Decisions on the need for contamination assessments and remediation can cost many hundreds of thousands of dollars and are based on data generated by analytical laboratories.
Whilst we perform periodic audits of laboratories used, we also offer a targeted lab auditing service to major lab users who require confidence that their laboratory expenditures are yielding the desired data quality.
A laboratory audit consists of a site visit to assess or follow the trail of sample handling, analysis and reporting procedures from arrival at the laboratory to the final issued report.
We can conduct a laboratory audit specific to client or laboratory requests to determine whether:
- Laboratory method procedures and/or NATA accredited testing is being undertaken as stated.
- Laboratory methods used are appropriate for the analysis requested (this includes checks of internal laboratory quality)
Quality issues resulting from the audit are forwarded to both the laboratory and to the audit requestor allowing the requestor to understand the degree of confidence that can be placed on data received from the laboratory. It also provides a mechanism to improve laboratory performance.
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