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What
exactly does environmental auditing mean? Why should industrial
companies in particular arrange for environmental audits? Who
should be responsible for them, and to who should they report?
What sort of methodology should be applied?
This
booklet give the first internationally agreed answer to these
question- the ICC position paper approved in November 1988. The
ICC defines audits as a management tool, and emphasizes that the
responsibility for conducting them should be that of companies
themselves. The paper has five other objectives:
- Stressing
the benefits of audits to management;
- Emphasizing
their value to regulatory authorities;
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Helping to establish audits as a credible and trustworthy instrument
in the minds of the work-force local community, environmentalist
associations and the general public;
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Setting an agreed basis for discussion and action worldwide;
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Suggesting a standard practical methodology for personnel charged
with undertaking the audits.
A
Foreword by the President of the ICC explains the overall context.
Pre-publication endorsements by twenty leading international organization
are included.
The
booklet is both an important statement of self-regulatory policy
by the business community and a basis practical guide. At a time
when environmental concerns are rapidly attracting more attention
from policy-makers and public opinion everywhere, it deserves
a wide circulation within the business community and in
governmental circles and environmental associations.
Rs.
390/-
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