Online Access Free ISO-14001-Lead-Auditor Practice Test

You are auditing the ISO 14001 management system of a primary school (School 21st Century) located in downtown Lima, Peru. There are 400 students, attending classes from 9 am until 5.30 pm.
You have presented a nonconformity at the closing meeting:
Non-conformity - No environmental aspect has been identified related to the impact of the education provided by the school on students' awareness (as future adults) related to generic environmental issues.
Select the three best acceptable corrections that the school may take.

• A.Hire an environmentalist next month to deliver a couple of lectures on the environment to all employees of the school, except students
• B.Hire an environment expert next week to deliver a lecture on the environment to all students
• C.Thoroughly review the syllabus for next year to include environmental issues whenever appropriate
• D.Establish environmental objectives for the school
• E.Revise the school's environmental policy to include environmental concerns
• F.Ask the National Environmental Agency for reading materials to give to students before the lecture by the expert
• G.Review the procedure for waste management in the school
• H.Add the education on generic environmental issues to the list of environmental aspects of the school's EMS

A management system meeting ISO 14001:2015 requirements is based on the Plan-Do-Check-Act (PDCA) cycle.
Which two elements of the management system are part of the 'Check' stage of the PDCA cycle?

• A.Improvement
• B.Monitoring performance
• C.Management review
• D.Nonconformities
• E.Control of the processes
• F.Environmental policy

XM, a chain of 25 petrol stations, established an EMS following the requirements of ISO 14001, which was third-party certified 10 years ago. You are performing an internal audit before the fourth certification cycle.
During the audit to the EMS Manager (EM), the following dialogue takes place:
You: Could you please give me some details on the inspection of underground tanks in each station?
EM: It's very simple. There is a regulation that requires an annual leak inspection.
You: Who performs these inspections?
EM: I personally contract the inspectors and submit the results to the local authority. These are the certificates submitted last year.
You: I see only 22 certificates. There are three missing.
EM: The tanks of those three stations will be removed next year and replaced by new ones. I phoned the local authority and they told me that I do not need to send any report of the tanks that will be changed.
Which one of the following would be your next question?

• A.Can I see the contract XM signed with the inspector?
• B.Did you ask the local authority to send a written confirmation of their decision?
• C.Can I see the plan for the installation of the new tanks?
• D.Have you planned any final disposal of the tanks to be removed?

An oil organisation has a natural gas treatment plant on land crossed by several small rivers. On one particular day, after heavy rainfall for 48 hours, some of those rivers burst their banks and flooded the water treatment facilities of the plant. The oil-contaminated water reached some scarcely populated areas nearby.
Soon after, an internal audit was carried out to particularly analyse this event that was considered a nonconformity. There were no records of such heavy rainfall in the past 200 years.
Which three of the following actions are 'corrections'?

• A.Revise the existing emergency plan
• B.Clean up the affected land
• C.Build up some additional protection to the water treatment plant
• D.Clean up the houses of the persons affected
• E.Offer loans to the persons affected to build new houses far from the plant
• F.Send the contaminated land for processing
• G.Reinforce the riverbanks with cement
• H.Relocate the water treatment plant to lower ground

Whistlekleen is a national dry cleaning and laundry organisation with 50 shops. You are conducting an EMS surveillance audit of Head Office and are sampling environmental performance measurement. You find that
80 per cent of failures to meet performance criteria originate from five shops in the same region. Most of these failures relate to the release of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) that exceeds regulations. The Environmental Manager tells you that these are the oldest shops in the organisation. The cleaning equipment needs replacing but the organisation cannot afford it at the moment.
On raising the matter with senior management, you are told that there are plans to replace the equipment in these shops over the next five years.
Select two options that apply to how you should respond to the information given.

• A.Determine if the local authority has been informed that the organisation is exceeding VOC emissions
• B.Extend the audit plan to include the five shops
• C.Evaluate whether the process for measuring environmental performance is effective
• D.Criticise the equipment replacement period as being too environmentally damaging for too long
• E.Recommend that staff in the five shops should have medical check-ups due to air pollution
• F.Raise an opportunity for improvement (OI) to reduce damaging emissions