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Greetings!
For more than a decade the
Board of Environmental, Health and Safety Auditor
Certifications (BEAC) has been working to ensure that
organizations and government are staffed with
professional auditors who ensure we live in a healthy
and safe world.
| New BEAC Board of Directors appointment |
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BEAC is pleased to announce that Elizabeth
Wagonseller, Director of Membership for the
Institute
of Internal Auditors, has been appointed by the IIA to
the BEAC Board of Directors. Elizabeth will also serve
on the Executive Committee as
Secretary.
Elizabeth replaces Jo-El LaBorde,
who has been appointed Vice President of the IIA
Research Foundation.
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| AR South Central Regional Conference |
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Conference Chairman Michael Byington,
CPEA invites you to the following:
South Central Regional Conference
Wednesday, August 6, 2008
Hosted by Bracewell & Giuliani
111 Congress, Suite 850
Austin, Texas
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| NAEM Global EHS Management Conference |
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John Nagy,
CPEA and former BEAC Board member, is
leading a session on Global Auditing Best Practices.
The session will be at NAEM's 2008 Global
EHS Management conference taking place in
Milwaukee, August 6-7, at the Rockwell Automation
corporate headquarters.
NAEM is offering a discounted registration fee
to
BEAC participants - - you can register at the
NAEM
member rate. Please notify Virginia Hoekenga at
NAEM if you plan to do so
(Virginia@naem.org).
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| Auditing Roundtable returns to D.C. |
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The Auditing Roundtable is returning to the
Nation's Capitol in September, holding its Annual
Meeting in Crystal City on September 3-5, 2008.
To take advantage of being in the Washington, D.C.
area, the Roundtable will draw speakers from various
regulatory agencies to get the "Government
Perspective" on the plenary session topics. Agency
speakers have been invited to complement members
from consulting and industry on topics such as:
- Process Safety Management
- Nanotechnology
- Greenhouse Gases
- Security Auditing
This meeting will also contain a little extra - - more
training opportunities than have ever been offered!
After the rousing success of the
Roundtable's "Auditing Basics" training course held in
Phoenix, the organization is expanding its training
options to three concurrent training sessions:
1. Auditing Basics (Wednesday-Thursday,
September 3 -4);
2. Environmental Compliance (Tuesday afternoon-
Thursday, September 2 - 4); and
3. Health and Safety Compliance (Tuesday
afternoon-Thursday, September 2 - 4).
For those already certified and seeking other
training/CPD opportunities, the Roundtable will also
hold a CEU course that will focus on using
Greenhouse Gas protocols.
There are still plenty of sponsorship opportunities
available, and a few Exhibitor slots left. If you are
interested in either, please contact Kathy at
kathy@auditing-roundtable.org.
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| BEAC to participate in ISSC Resilience Summit |
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The International Safety & Security Conference:
Resilience Summit 2008, held October 14-15, 2008
in New York City, offers dozens of presentations over
a two-day period. The meeting will focus on
Enterprise-Wide Risk Management and will have
special appeal to senior managers throughout the
organization.
BEAC Chair Jerry Atlas, CPEA has agreed to
participate in a panel
discussion, "Auditor Certification - An Open Forum
on New Initiatives". Also, Karen Coyne,
CPEA will be presenting "Auditing 101" as
part of
a 'Crossing Silos' track.
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| Wharton DC Club's Green Business Summit |
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The Wharton DC Club held a Green Business
Summit on June 5, 2008. Unfortunately, BEAC's
representative was sidetracked by a tornado, but
the Wharton Club has graciously allowed us to share
the presentations.
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| ASSE Suggests Changes to Proposed Confined Space Standard |
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ASSE submitted comments on OSHA's proposed
rule, Confined Spaces in Construction. The
comments are based on the views of members of
ASSE's practice specialties and members of the ANSI
Z117 Accredited Standards Committee, for which
ASSE is the Secretariat.
As stated in the
comments,
ASSE's overall view is that the proposed rule "is
unduly complicated, introduces unnecessarily new
terminology and requirements that are complicated
and burdensome, and fails to recognize current safety
practices that are widely understood and have proven
successful in practice both in general industry and in
construction."
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| ABOUT BEAC |
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BEAC is an independent non-profit
corporation, created in 1997 as a joint venture
between The Auditing Roundtable and The Institute of
Internal Auditors to issue professional
auditor certifications relating to environmental, health
& safety, security, sustainability, social responsibility
(EHS), and other scientific fields.
BEAC applicants must meet a variety of qualification
criteria. Once approved, they are awarded the
professional designation of Certified Professional
Environmental Auditor (CPEA).
The BEAC certification is accredited by the Council of
Engineering & Scientific Specialty Boards (CESB).
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| BEAC announces new fee structure for 2009 |
What's changing?
Annual recertification fee will increase by 10 percent
from $150 to $165.
Application fees will decrease from $245 to
$120.
Exam fees will now be charged, at $125 per part, to
include first time and exam retake fees.
IIA and AR members will qualify for discounts on all
fees.
Read more....
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