Environmental Auditing and Management Systems University of Surrey

Overview

The dominant approach towards identifying, documenting and minimising the effects an organisation has on its specific and the wider (physical and to some extent social) environment is originated in the Total Quality Management (TQM) Movement.

Auditing as the systematic process of performance evaluation against pre-set standards, as well as the need to embed all activities into a contrived system of managing activities are at the heart of environmental management.

Learning outcomes

On successful completion of this Environmental Auditing and Management Systems module at the University of Surrey, you will be able to:

• Understand the knowledge, process and practice of auditing in an organisation, as well as put the results of an audit into an organisational context
• Be able to outline and articulate differences in types of audits, as well as how auditing can support broader environmental management
• Review an organisation’s environmental performance in broad terms and develop a register of significant environmental aspects
• Advise on the auditability of an organisation to adopt a register of significant environmental aspects