BNA Global Auditor™ Offers Customizable International EHS Audit Tool

ARLINGTON, Va., May 26 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Virtually every company with manufacturing or other industrial operations in foreign countries must comply with complex networks of environmental, health, and safety laws and regulations in each of those nations. Beyond national requirements, increasingly states, regions, territories, and provinces are creating their own laws to govern how business is done in their jurisdictions.

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BNA, publisher of Global EHS Library, and Enhesa, the leading EHS consulting firm, have joined forces to offer the EHS marketplace BNA Global Auditor™, everything a multinational company needs to conduct audits and site assessments on an international scale. Global Auditor marries the acclaimed BNA Auditor technology developed by BNA with the authoritative audit protocols developed by Enhesa.

"BNA's fully customizable Global Auditor will make it much easier for companies to assess how their processes, operations, materials, and equipment comply with the applicable rules and regulations where they have facilities – down to the state and provincial level in many cases," said Wallis McClain, Manager of Global Environmental Information in BNA's Environment, Health & Safety Division. "It will dramatically reduce the amount of time our customers spend auditing their compliance, globally."

With protocols for 37 countries available at launch, and more than 100 to be released by the end of 2010, Global Auditor makes short work of learning a country's EHS compliance obligations, how these obligations are implemented and enforced, which authorities to interact with, and which statutes apply to operations.

Margery Moore, Director of EHS Strategic Alliances, BNA, states "It is not just the content from our partners at Enhesa that is best in the industry; it is the proprietary BNA platform that is also compelling for customers. This platform allows customers to quickly answer applicability questions using our Global Auditor wizard, to produce, on-demand, customized audit protocols." In addition, the BNA Global Auditor platform allows for customers to add their own company specific content.

BNA Global Auditor offers comprehensive guidance and lists of applicable requirements in BNA's easy-to-use auditing application. It is also interactive, allowing companies to adapt standard, off-the-shelf protocols to their specific operations. Dual-language — English plus native language — capability will soon be available.

"High-quality, routinely updated, checklists and other compliance information necessary to conduct a detailed site assessment or audit of any facility – in over 100 jurisdictions worldwide – would make the compliance and risk managers' jobs much less of a high-wire act," said  Enhesa's Managing Director, Thierry Dumortier. "Global Auditor offers this capability."

BNA delivers specialized information to EHS, business, legal, and government professionals at every level of expertise. As the leading independent publisher of news, analysis, and reference products, BNA has provided intensive coverage of developments in law and regulation for more than 80 years. An extensive network of more than 500 BNA reporters, lawyer-editors, and correspondents, posted at federal, state, and international government offices, courts, and other key locations, ensures timely information and expert analysis of the issues that matter most to business.

Enhesa is a recognized leader in international audit consulting and regulatory compliance assurance support. Enhesa has a dynamic, highly trained team of multilingual consultants with in-depth knowledge of regulatory and policy issues at global, regional, national, and local levels. Enhesa's consultants provide strategic information and guidance on current and emerging laws, regulations, standards, and industry initiatives. Enhesa has been helping businesses ensure ongoing compliance for years, and has developed a range of products and services tailor-made to the needs of its clients.

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