The ISO 14001 Audit also called Environmental Audit, is a vendor qualification operation aiming to evaluate and verify the compliance of your supplier environmental management system face to ISO 14001 standard requirement. This audit is performed during the sourcing phase before selecting a vendor.

It aims to verify wether the environmental management system of your supplier is really and properly set up according to ISO 14001 standard.

During an ISO 14001 Supplier Audit the auditor will visit the premises of your supplier and will assess its capability to comply with the ISO 14001 quality standard on an environmental point of view. He will especially follow and analyze your vendor capability to implement the environmental management principle dictated by ISO 14001 standard.

This especially include the following:

Energy use, transport and greenhouse gases
Water use
Wastewater/effluent
Emissions
Waste management
Pollution prevention/hazardous and potentially hazardous substances
Major incident prevention and management
Contaminated land/soil and groundwater pollution prevention
Land use and biodiversity
Internal processes for team training on environmental best practices