What this service is:

Bloomberg BNA and Specialty Technical Publishers present BNA Auditor, a Web-based environment, health and safety compliance auditing tool that combines regularly updated state and federal content with concise, expert guidance.

What it helps you do:

• Assess a facility's compliance with all applicable federal and state environmental regulations.
• Customize your audit by selecting just those modules that apply to your facility, or by adding corporate standards or site-specific requirements.
• Integrate state difference details with relevant federal requirements at the right point in your audit checklists.
• Rely on the detailed instructions, auditor guide notes, field-tested checklists, and accurate quarterly updates.
• Quickly identify areas of conformance and nonconformance, improvement opportunities, and more with the Auditor Scorecard.
  
• Link directly to the text of any relevant federal or state citation.
• Save, share, and export your EHS audit checklists.
• Generate audit and compliance management reports.
• Save time and money.
• Minimize risk.
• Demonstrate due diligence.

Components:

• Introduction
• Overview and applicability summaries of federal regulations for each topic
• Key compliance definitions
• Pre-Audit Preparation
• List of all documents, reports, and files to be gathered for review prior to on-site audit or inspection
• Compliance Rulebooks (Audit Protocols)
• Detailed summaries of regulatory requirements
• Guide notes to assist with compliance evaluations
• Score Sheets
• Allows quick recording of the facility's compliance status with each regulatory requirement
• Provide a graphic table highlighting areas of most concern or improvement opportunities

Customization:

• Add corporate standards or site-specific requirements.
• Control over the level of detail.
• Drill down to more technical language and data when the complexities of a situation demand it.
• Save an audit at any time and return to it later.
• Share templates and provide access to authorized team members.
• For more details on customization options, contact your Bloomberg BNA Representative by calling Customer Relations at 800.372.1033 (M-F 8:30am-7pm, excluding most federal holidays).

Product Structure

Reference: analysis, guidance and primary source material

Formats and Frequency

Updated quarterly.

Environment

• Air quality
• Asbestos
• Audit privilege
• Drinking water
• Facility management systems
• Hazardous materials
• Hazardous wastes
• Ionizing radiation (NRC licenses)
• Lead-based paint
• Oil and petroleum
• Operator certification (POTW)
• PCBs
• Pesticides
• Solid wastes
• Storage tanks (UST, AST)
• Toxic substances
• Underground storage tanks
• Wastewater
• Wetlands

Safety Topics

• Brazing
• Chemical exposures
• Compressed gases
• Confined spaces
• Controls
• Cutting
• Diving
• Electrical
• Excavations
• Fire protection
• General environmental
• General industry
• Hand-held tools
• Hazard communication
• Hazardous materials
• HAZWOPER
• ISO 9000
• Lockout/tagout
• Machinery
• Materials handling
• Means of egress
• Medical/first-aid
• Occupational health
• Personal protection
• Powered platforms
• Record keeping
• Process safety
• Walking/working surfaces
• Welding

OSHA Construction Topics (Federal only)

• Blasting and use of explosives
• Commercial diving operations
• Concrete and masonry
• Cranes, derricks, hoists, and lifts
• Demolition
• Electrical
• Excavations
• Fall protection
• Fire protection and prevention
• General safety and health
• Hand and power tools
• Hazardous waste operations and emergency response
• Materials handling
• Occupational exposures and environmental controls
• Personal protective and life saving equipment
• Power transmission and distribution
• Process safety management
• Recordkeeping and posting
• Rollover protection equipment
• Scaffolding
• Signs, signals, and barricades
• Stairways and ladders
• Steel erection
• Toxic and hazardous substances
• Underground construction, caissons, cofferdams, and compressed air
• Welding and cutting

DOT Hazardous Materials Transportation & Motor Carrier Safety Topics (Federal only)

• Hazardous materials transportation
• Hazardous materials transported by aircraft
• Hazardous materials transported by motor vehicle
• Hazardous materials transported by rail
• Hazardous materials transported by vessel
• Motor carrier safety

Pipeline Safety Topics (Federal only)

• Alcohol Misuse Prevention and Anti-Drug Program
• Hazardous liquid and carbon dioxide transportation
• Liquefied natural gas systems
• Natural gas systems

FIFRA Topics (Federal only)

• General requirements and storage
• Pesticide containers (including labeling and repackaging requirements)
• Producers and refillers
• Worker protection
• Pesticide containment structures
• Federal applicator certification

Fire Code Management of Hazardous Materials Topics

• National Fire Protection Association
• NFPA, Uniform Fire Code™
• International Fire Code
• Uniform Fire Code