Environmental Audits and Risk Assessments

Environmental auditing is a systematic process of collecting and evaluating evidence to assess whether specified environmental activities, events, conditions, or systems comply with regulatory requirements or conform to internal or industry standards. Compliance auditing is a mechanism that can be used, for example, to identify risk and avoid potential environmental incidents, while EMS audits enable organizations to understand whether their environmental management system conforms to standards, such as ISO 14001. Due diligence audits can be used to identify potential environmental liabilities associated with property transactions or facility purchases. Triton’s auditing team regularly conducts compliance, EMS, and due diligence audits throughout British Columbia and Alberta.

Risk assessment is the process of quantifying the likelihood of an adverse outcome associated with a risk. Ecological risk assessment includes characterizing the relationships between stressors, pathways and receptors; estimating exposure potential, relating exposure to potential effects upon receptors, and identifying means of controlling risk. Triton’s risk assessment team has experience conducting human health and ecological assessments for terrestrial and aquatic (freshwater and marine) ecosystems for a wide variety of sectors including transportation, agriculture, mining, energy and government agencies.

Triton’s expert testimony service combines our expertise in environmental toxicology, risk assessment and due diligence assessment. We provide expert testimony and litigation support services in court and during arbitration or mediation proceedings.

Our environmental auditing, risk assessment and expert testimony services include:

• Environmental management system and compliance audits
• Due diligence assessments and gap analysis
• Toxicology
• Pesticide over-application assessments
• Human health, exposure and ecological risk assessment
• Development and review of guidelines and site-specific environmental quality objectives
• Damages assessment (retrospective risk assessment)
• Expert testimony