Halderstone Audit Services

Environmental Management Audits

Independent assessments of environmental governance, management systems, operational controls, and compliance obligations

Halderstone Audit Services

Environmental Management Audits

Independent assessments of environmental governance, management systems, operational controls, and compliance obligations

Auditor and site representative review environmental control evidence during a building walk-through.

Understand whether your environmental controls work in practice

Assess whether responsibilities, operational controls, monitoring activities, and improvement processes are implemented effectively across your organisation.

Auditor and site representative review environmental control evidence during a building walk-through.

Understand whether your environmental controls work in practice

Assess whether responsibilities, operational controls, monitoring activities, and improvement processes are implemented effectively across your organisation.

Auditor and site representative review environmental control evidence during a building walk-through.
How we support you

How we support you

How we support you
Why Halderstone

Why Halderstone

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How we support you

Environmental performance and compliance depend on how responsibilities, operational processes, sites, suppliers, and monitoring activities are governed and controlled.

Independent audits help organisations understand whether environmental governance, management systems, and operational controls are designed appropriately and operating effectively.

Assessments can focus on entire environmental management systems, selected sites, processes, operational controls, suppliers, environmental aspects, or specific compliance obligations.

Audit contexts

  • Internal audits

  • Readiness assessments

  • Site and process audits

  • Supplier environmental assessments

  • Environmental compliance reviews

  • Integrated audits

Supported frameworks

  • ISO 14001

  • ISO 14004

  • ISO 14031

  • EMAS

  • Organisation-specific environmental management and compliance frameworks

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A short conversation to understand your current situation and discuss possible next steps.

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Discuss your audit challenge

A short conversation to understand your current situation and discuss possible next steps.

Schedule a call

Business meeting with people sitting at a conference room table

Discuss your audit challenge

A short conversation to understand your current situation and discuss possible next steps.

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Why Halderstone

Our approach

  • Audit planning informed by risks, objectives, and the intended use of audit results

  • Audit activities aligned with recognized auditing principles and guidance, including ISO 19011 where appropriate

  • Findings based on objective evidence obtained through interviews, documentation review, observation, and sampling

  • Conclusions supported by corroboration across multiple evidence sources and audit methods

  • Practical reporting focused on decision-making, assurance, and continual improvement

What we deliberately do not do

  • Mandates that compromise auditor independence

  • Audit engagements where we influence the selection of samples, evidence, or interview partners

  • Conclusions based solely on interviews without corroborating evidence

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Halderstone Academy

Related training modules

Halderstone Academy offers focused training modules on relevant audit capabilities.

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Auditing Environmental Aspects & Impacts Assessment

Assess whether environmental aspects are identified, significance is judged credibly, and lifecycle perspective is applied in an ISO 14001 EMS

7 h

Auditing Environmental Aspects & Impacts Assessment

Assess whether environmental aspects are identified, significance is judged credibly, and lifecycle perspective is applied in an ISO 14001 EMS

7 h

Auditing Environmental Operational Control

Assess whether environmental operational controls and emergency preparedness work effectively within an ISO 14001 management system

7 h

Auditing Environmental Operational Control

Assess whether environmental operational controls and emergency preparedness work effectively within an ISO 14001 management system

7 h

Environmental Aspects & Impacts Assessment

Identify environmental aspects, evaluate impacts and significance, and maintain the assessment over time in an ISO 14001 context

7 h

Environmental Operational Control

Control operations in an environmentally sound and compliant manner in line with ISO 14001

7 h

Environmental Emergency Preparedness & Response

Establish effective arrangements for environmental emergencies through defined response plans, drills and post-incident learning

7 h

Auditing Context & Scope

Assess whether organisational context, interested parties, scope and system boundaries credibly reflect how the organisation operates

7 h

Auditing Leadership & Governance

Assess whether leadership commitment, policy direction and governance structures credibly steer the management system

7 h

Auditing Risk & Opportunity Management

Assess whether risk and opportunity management credibly informs organisational decisions and priorities

7 h

Auditing Documented Information

Assess whether documented information is fit for use, internally consistent and credible as audit evidence

7 h

Auditing Context & Scope

Assess whether organisational context, interested parties, scope and system boundaries credibly reflect how the organisation operates

7 h

Auditing Context & Scope

Assess whether organisational context, interested parties, scope and system boundaries credibly reflect how the organisation operates

7 h

Auditing Leadership & Governance

Assess whether leadership commitment, policy direction and governance structures credibly steer the management system

7 h

Auditing Leadership & Governance

Assess whether leadership commitment, policy direction and governance structures credibly steer the management system

7 h

Auditing Risk & Opportunity Management

Assess whether risk and opportunity management credibly informs organisational decisions and priorities

7 h

Auditing Risk & Opportunity Management

Assess whether risk and opportunity management credibly informs organisational decisions and priorities

7 h

Auditing Documented Information

Assess whether documented information is fit for use, internally consistent and credible as audit evidence

7 h

Auditing Documented Information

Assess whether documented information is fit for use, internally consistent and credible as audit evidence

7 h

Auditing Objectives & Performance Evaluation

Assess whether objectives and KPIs credibly measure and steer organisational performance

7 h

Auditing Objectives & Performance Evaluation

Assess whether objectives and KPIs credibly measure and steer organisational performance

7 h

Auditing Operational Control

Assess whether operational controls and process interactions work reliably in day-to-day practice

7 h

Auditing Operational Control

Assess whether operational controls and process interactions work reliably in day-to-day practice

7 h

Auditing Supplier & Outsourcing Management

Assess whether supplier and outsourced process controls manage risk effectively and achieve intended outcomes across organisational boundaries

7 h

Auditing Supplier & Outsourcing Management

Assess whether supplier and outsourced process controls manage risk effectively and achieve intended outcomes across organisational boundaries

7 h

Leading with Management Systems

Use management systems to drive performance, risk control and organisational credibility beyond certification

1.5 h

Leading with Management Systems in Practice

Apply executive judgement to turn management systems into drivers of reliability, trust and strategic performance

3 h

System Framing

Analyse organisational context, stakeholders and system boundaries to support effective management systems

7 h

System Leadership

Define clear policy direction and accountability through effective leadership responsibilities in management systems

7 h

Policy Management

Design coherent, auditable policy frameworks that align with strategy, scale across entities, and stay current without excess bureaucracy

7 h

Governance Design

Build the decision rights, governance meetings, escalation paths and evidence trails that make management systems work in practice

12 h

Resource Management

Ensure management systems are supported with sufficient people, time, budget, infrastructure and external support

7 h

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Ready to improve your management systems?

We support continuous improvement by embedding ISO requirements into everyday practice and daily operations.

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Office scene with people standing, walking and sitting

Ready to improve your management systems?

We support continuous improvement by embedding ISO requirements into everyday practice and daily operations.

Contact us

Office scene with people standing, walking and sitting

Ready to improve your management systems?

We support continuous improvement by embedding ISO requirements into everyday practice and daily operations.

Contact us

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