Air Emissions Compliance Auditing

Service summary

A review of air emissions management against identified permit conditions and agreed requirements. The audit examines the records and operating controls used to manage relevant emission sources and reporting duties.

The service helps management identify gaps in compliance oversight. It does not replace stack testing, ambient monitoring, dispersion modelling or the decisions of environmental authorities.

Key objectives

• Assess emission-related obligation controls
• Examine monitoring report reliability
• Evaluate control-equipment oversight
• Identify reporting and response gaps

Methodology

Selected sources and reporting periods are traced through existing operating, maintenance and emissions-monitoring evidence.

• Define emission sources, permits, assessment periods and criteria.
• Review monitoring plans, reporting requirements and source inventories.
• Select sources, operating conditions and reported exceedances.
• Examine control-equipment operation and maintenance records.
• Reconcile existing monitoring results with permits and operating information.
• Evaluate notifications, deviations and corrective action follow-through.
• Report compliance-management findings and unverified measurement matters.

Key outcomes

References: [G04]

• Air emissions control assessment
• Permit and reporting findings
• Monitoring evidence gaps
• Equipment oversight observations