Compliance & Auditing

Compliance & Auditing

ERM enables organizations to turn the universe of ever-evolving compliance requirements into focused, risk-based and site-relevant actions. We reimagine compliance and audit approaches, leading to greater efficiencies, richer insights and stronger outcomes. 

Reducing cost and complexity requires innovation

Compliance demands are growing in volume and complexity. As well as keeping pace with evolving EHS and ESG regulations, organizations need to comply with internal sustainability commitments and manage growing amounts of data.

To strengthen compliance and reduce risks, organizations are seeking to unlock more operationally actionable insights from the ever-expanding variety of EHS and ESG regulations. Regulatory intelligence is needed to get a clear signal from all the noise.

Many organizations still rely on unintegrated and manual systems and processes. This requires more resources and can lead to data accuracy and inconsistency risks, which can undermine compliance and auditing efforts.

Despite large investments, audits can fail to deliver sufficient value or assurance at a strategic or operational level. Organizations are increasingly exploring tech-enabled solutions to get more value from their audit programs.

Unlock greater value from your compliance and audit efforts with digital solutions and expert advice from ERM.

Simplify regulatory intelligence

From international regulations to local permits, ERM helps organizations simplify and strengthen compliance and improve levels of compliance confidence. We combine regulatory intelligence with digital solutions to enable data-based decisions and site-relevant actions.

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Co-design compliance frameworks

ERM works with clients to identify compliance frameworks that suit their needs, providing the right balance between centralized management and site-level ownership and accountability. We support compliance programs from design to implementation, including providing data analysis and reporting.

Meet routine compliance demands

We assist clients with building and operating sampling, analysis and testing programs to support compliance for key EHS areas, such as air, water and waste. Our services include routine reporting, for example carbon emission inventory monitoring and deviation reporting, for individual sites and entire organizations.

Maximize audit value

Our experts conduct a range of audit types, from compliance and conformance, to performance improvement and full transformation assessments. We utilize tech-enabled solutions to streamline audit stages, from initiation and execution, to data analysis and reporting. Our approach aims to drive continuous improvement and provide practical, insightful and relevant outputs.

Our approach

Transform Compliance and Auditing with ERM

Building and implementing EHS compliance programs

Regulatory applicability, legal registers, compliance calendars, task management

Field sampling, analysis and testing compliance programs – air, water and waste

Building and implementing incident management and response programs

Routine compliance reporting across EHS media

Auditing program design and development, developing audit protocols

Site-level and enterprise EHS audits and EHS gap assessments

Management systems audits and readiness assessments

Risk assessments and evaluation of risk controls

Post-audit follow-up, CAPA and gap closures

Outcomes

Build digitized solutions

Improve operational efficiency

Strengthen compliance confidence

Unlock audit value

Our partnerships

ERM has an ever-expanding ecosystem of partners across each key area of the sustainability value chain, enabling us to meet our clients’ evolving needs and scale our impact.

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ERM in numbers

Our experience and insights are cross-industry and on a global scale

23,000

projects worked on in FY23

8,000+

employees in 40+ countries globally

152

countries where we worked on projects in 2023

3,000+

clients across all industries

Insights

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Policy alert

Significant business impacts from the EPA’s finalized amendments to air toxics regulations

09 May 2024
Report

ERM 2024 Global Health and Safety Survey: Rising to the challenge of the constantly changing world of work

By Brian Kraus, Valery Kucherov

15 April 2024
Projects

How we've helped global businesses from vision to implementation

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Chemical
Case study Asia Pacific

Conducting a high-level management system review for DIC Corporation in China to determine compliancy with the chemical industry’s global voluntary initiative, Responsible Care®.
Power
Case study North America

Safeguarding compliance through a remote auditing program
EHS Management
Case study Latin America & Caribbean

Investigate potential liabilities arising from operations and compliance with local regulations at a Kodak De Mexico SA de CV manufacturing facility in Mexico.

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