Sector: Government and Municipality | Location: Alameda, CA
Conducted a comprehensive multi-media environmental, health and safety compliance audit at a municipal water district to evaluate and report the compliance status of the facility operations with applicable Federal, State, and local environmental, health and safety laws and regulations. The audit included a pre-audit review of permits, plans, registrations, reports, policies, procedures, notice of violations, and training documents; site reconnaissance that included a physical inspection of the facilities, over-the- shoulder reviews of practices, procedures, and systems; assessment of the organizational structure and staffing levels, and post-audit activities that comprised of the completion of a formal written report of findings, conclusions and recommendations summarizing major and minor findings, program strengths, opportunities for improvement and program health indicators – exemplary, healthy, needs improvement and requires immediate action. The report also addressed additional program development requirements to ensure worker safety and/or to meet regulatory compliance; summary of appropriate staff qualifications and ongoing training requirements necessary to maintain proper certifications relative to program management and the performance of assigned duties; identification of best management practices regarding organizational placement of programs with citation of available examples and benchmarking with other similar sized utility organizations; and identification and a description of the viability of alternatives (e.g. outsourcing) of program management, organizational structure and staffing size, in whole or in part.