Webinar: New BEAC Standards

 

 

Presenters:
 Ridgway M. Hall, Jr. Crowell & Moring, LLP ,
 Cynthia Chiles, Convergence Consulting
Frank Friedman, Frank B. Friedman & Associates

Previously Recorded on August 11, 2009

 

 

Summary


This webinar will describe and discuss the new Performance and Program Standards for the Professional Practice of Environmental, Health and Safety Auditing published in December, 2008, by the Board of Environmental, Health and Safety Auditor Certifications (“BEAC”).  BEAC is the largest organization in the country that certifies the professional qualifications of EHS auditors.  The session will be led by three members of the BEAC Standards Board.  The Standards address Independence, Auditor Qualifications and Due Professional Care, the Performance of Audits and Audit Program Design.


Ever since Congress passed the Sarbanes-Oxley Amendments in 2002, senior corporate management, Boards of Directors, lenders, insurers and regulatory agencies have been demanding greater accuracy and reliability in EHS audit reports.  These standards were created to meet this need.  This webinar is recommended for all EHS auditors and others responsible for EHS compliance.

 

Our Presenters


Ridge Hall is a founding Partner of Crowell & Moring (1979) and is with the firm’s Environment and Natural Resources Group. He graduated from Yale magna cum laude and Harvard Law School. Ridge’s practice includes all areas of environmental law and litigation. He works with clients in administrative and judicial proceedings, enforcement and appellate litigation, rulemaking proceedings, permitting and toxic tort litigation.

 

For over 20 years Ridge has assisted companies in the design and imple-mentation of corporate environmental, health and safety auditing and compliance programs. He has worked extensively with companies in conducting environmental audits, planning for future growth, handling environmental aspects of acquisitions and other business transactions, and setting up corporate employee training programs. Ridge has written and lectured widely on environmental law and regulatory programs as well as environmental auditing and EH&S management systems. He is the lead author of All About Environmental Auditing (Federal Publications, 2nd ed. 1992). He formerly Co-Chaired the Auditing Roundtable’s Standards Committee and participated in drafting the Roundtable’s EH&S auditing performance and program standards, and is a past Chair of the Legislative and Regulatory Affairs Committee.

Frank B. Friedman is a consultant in environment, health and safety and risk management. He also serves as an expert witness on industry standards of conduct. Starting as an attorney in the Department of Justice in the 1960’s, working on some of the early cases in this area, he began his corporate career in 1970 as a corporate counsel and for twenty years was a senior (VP level) corporate environment, health and safety (EHS) officer with large multinational corporations, as well as serving as Special Counsel for these companies. He is recognized as a worldwide leader in developing and rapidly implementing leading edge EHS programs, management system development, program management and compliance in a wide variety of industries and working with counsel in developing and improving EHS management systems in civil, criminal and debarment matters. He also has advised the U.S. Department of Justice on EHS management systems and has lectured to EPA on these subjects.

Mr. Friedman has written and lectured extensively, including at Environmental Protection Agency programs on environmental auditing and enforcement.  His book, Practical Guide to Environmental Management (Environmental Law Institute, 10th edition, 2006), is widely viewed as the standard reference and teaching text on its subject. He also is the author of the chapter on Environmental Auditing in the Treatise, Law of Environmental Protection ((Environmental Law Institute and Clark Boardman & Co., 1989, latest revision 2006). He has led many industry organizations, including the EHS Management Roundtable, as well as servings in leadership roles in the American Bar Association’s Section of Environment, Energy and Resources, most recently as Co-Chairman, Committee on Climate Change, Sustainable Development and Ecosystems. He also was a member of the Executive Committee of the Board of Directors of the Environmental Law Institute. He received his Bachelor of Arts degree in 1962 from Columbia College and his law degree in 1965 from Columbia Law School.


 

Cynthia Chiles is President and founder of convergenceSM consulting LLC, an environmental, health and safety management consulting firm specializing in international projects and programs; with offices in Los Angeles and UK.  In 2005 she was elected to the Board of Directors of The Auditing Roundtable; where she continues to serve on the Board until her term expires in September, 2009.  Ms. Chiles also sits on the Standards Board for the Board    of Environmental Health and Safety Auditor Certification (BEAC) which just completed the rewriting of the Performance and Program Standards for the Profession of EH&S Auditing.   .    Ms. Chiles has 18 years of environmental, health, safety, and social responsibility, management consulting experience to multi-national clients.  Her unique and well-rounded background was developed from a broad range of experiences: from leading two EHS management consulting firms to six-years living and consulting abroad in Europe. 

 

Ms. Chiles’ expertise is with the development and effective implementation of global (or multi-country) EHS management programs, in particular compliance audit programs, management system implementation programs, and performance metric programs. 

 

 

 


 

REGISTRATION AND COSTS 

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$60         Non-members, general public

$50         Member of affiliated, or collaborating organization (must specify organization; includes AHMP, ASSE, AIHA, AWMA, World Resources Institute, American Chemical Council)

$40         Member of Auditing Roundtable, BEAC or IIA

$40         Government, non-profit, educational, or economic hardship – not AR member

$30         Government, non-profit, educational, or economic hardship – AR member