Enhesa and CHWMEG will be hosting a series of
seminars in Toyko (Japan) and Shanghai (China)
on the 16th and 20th of May. To learn more about
these upcoming events, please email Ellen Zhang
at [email protected]
Auditing Roundtable Roundup
Enhesa Director, Paul Beatley, and EHS Auditor,
Jack Welsch, escaped one of the coldest DC winters in recent memory to attend the 2014 winter
national meeting of the Auditing Roundtable in
Phoenix, Arizona in February. It was a wonderful
opportunity to catch up with many valued Enhesa
customers as well as make several new friends
who stopped by to admire the debut of Enhesa’s
new booth. Jack made a presentation to the General Session to give the assembled auditors an
update on the latest trends in EHS regulations in
the US, with a particular focus on how these will
impact those of us out there doing audits. Meanwhile Paul updated the plenary session with the
results of discussions at last autumn’s Europe
Region meeting in Leamington Spa, England, and
later led a lively discussion of the International Interest Group break-out session. A special high-
Enhesa Flash May/June 2014
light of the program was the Keynote address by
Dr. John Howard, Director of the National Institutes of Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
on managing risks in the workplace and everyday
life. Also during the three day meeting a broad
range of topics were addressed, including profiles of individual corporate audit programs at GM,
Henkel, the UK’s National Grid, and Boeing; an
overview of Canada’s new Responsible Care Act;
a discussion of the pros and cons of homegrown
versus off the shelf software for audit support; the
results of a 42-company, seven-year task force
initiative to reduce and prevent fatalities and serious injuries in the workplace; and an introduction
to new audit challenges in the Canadian province
of Quebec by the President of the Quebec Association of Environmental Auditors. And, as is usually the case at AR meetings, a number of highly
interactive group activities and discussions took
place, including one exploring the critical issues
that EHS audit program managers and auditors
face in the planning and execution of EHS audits,
and a full suite of break-out Industry and Interest
Group Roundtables.
25