EIA Procedure—Post Monitoring and Environmental Audit

This chapter includes the post monitoring procedures of Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA). The main focus of the chapter is Environmental Audit its types, features, objectives, benefits, and the audit process. In Environmental auditing, a report is generated after monitoring which is then submitted to the competent authority. Environmental auditing is done to improve the overall environmental performance by finding areas of concern hence to mitigate associated environmental impacts. The process can be improved to reduce the costs and increase the spatial data. This chapter describes the systematic, documented, periodic performance of environmental auditing. Environmental auditing possesses various benefits of cost saving assessment, awareness among employees, emergency response and environmental excellence. The chapter explains various stages of environmental audit process including initiating the audit, audit planning, conducting the audit and post audit. However, in pre audit, the auditor determines the scope and objective of audit, in onsite audit, auditor assesses the environmental procedures, regulations and policies being followed by the applicator, in post audit, auditor makes a report to identify whether the business is fully compliant, partially complaint or non-complaint.