EHS BASIC AUDITING SKILLS COURSE

Date:                                                   Tuesday and Wednesday, June 3 & 4, 2008

Location:                                            General Mills Headquarters Bldg.                                                                                                   
                                                            One General Mills Blvd.

Minneapolis, MN  55426

Continuing Education Units:           An attendance letter will be sent to you to use as appropriate.

Meeting Sponsor:                                        General Mills

About the Course:

This in-depth training course is designed to provide new or prospective auditors with the EHS Auditing Skills consistent with updated BEAC EHS Auditing Performance Practices and Standards.  This 2 day course will cover the following topics:

·         ETHICS AND STANDARDS OF CONDUCT FOR AUDITORS

·         AUDIT PROGRAM DESIGN AND PLANNING

·         PRE AUDIT ACTIVITIES

·         ON SITE AUDIT ACTIVITIES

·         INTERNAL EHS CONTROLS

·         WRITING AUDIT FINDINGS

Who Should Attend:

This course offers invaluable preparation for those working to obtain certification as a Certified Professional Environmental or Health & Safety Auditor (CPEA).  It is an excellent refresher course for those new or prospective auditors who want to enhance or refresh their auditing skills.

Note. The Basic EHS Auditing Skills Course does not include the detailed environmental compliance or the health and safety compliance auditing requirements that are covered in two additional Auditing Roundtable training courses.   Experienced auditors may wish to wait to attend these courses, available in the fall of 2008, instead of attending this basic skills course.

About the Faculty:
This course will be taught by long-time auditing veteran and instructor, Ray Kane, CPEA, who spearheaded the development of this new training program on behalf of the AR Board of Directors.

A summary of Ray’s background is presented below:

Ray Kane is a leading national expert in the field of environmental regulatory compliance management, environmental auditing, and environmental audit program development with almost 30 years of experience.  Ray is a principal contributing author of one of the first and widely referenced texts “Environmental Audits, 7th Edition” and has authored over 25 papers and articles on EH&S auditing, EMS and regulatory compliance.  Ray is also a contributing author of the ISO 14000 Handbook, published by CEEM Information Services.  He is a recognized lecturer and trainer for industrial and commercial companies, having trained over 3,000 people in the U.S. and internationally.

Ray has also assisted numerous Fortune 500 companies, including Lucent, Georgia-Pacific, Baxter Health Care, Kodak, Philip Morris, Sara Lee, and GE with their environmental audit and compliance management programs.  His experience includes conducting over 400 environmental audits, conducting third-party evaluations of audit programs and assisting companies with Environmental Management Systems (EMS) gap analysis and program development. 

He developed the first environmental audit programs for the US Air Force and the National Institutes of Health and was the Project Director of one of the first Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC) mandated environmental audits of Occidental Petroleum Corp in 1980.

 Ray previously served as a member of the Board of Environmental Health & Safety Auditor Certifications (BEAC) and is currently serving on the Board of Directors of the Environmental Health & Safety Auditing Roundtable.

 COURSE AGENDA 
The Auditing Roundtable
Basic EHS Auditing Skills Course Agenda

Registration Fees:

Members:                                         $695.00

Other Organization Members:        $695.00
(IIA ASSE ACHMM AWMA ACC BEAC)

Non-Members                                  $895.00

Special Note:    With this fee, all non members will be given a complimentary one year membership to The Auditing Roundtable.

Includes break and lunch (both days)

PLEASE CLICK HERE TO REGISTER

Location:

The General Mills Headquarters Building is located at One General Mills Blvd., Minneapolis, MN  55426.   Complimentary parking is available at the locations indicated below. Take the elevator….

For General directions to the General Mills building see: map link
Click Here to view General Mills Building Map
Click Here to view General Mills Conference Room Map

Lodging (Not included in registration fee-you must make separate reservations):
Sheraton West:
http://www.starwoodhotels.com/sheraton/property/overview/index.html?propertyID=1324
General Mills Rate is $125 +tax