Environmental or safety compliance audits can be great tools to determine compliance status, assess whether programs or departments are operating as they should, and to educate and train employees. But if there is not management commitment and sufficient resources available to address the audit findings, an audit has the potential to create more harm than good. While certain audits or components of them may be able to be protected by attorney-client privilege, that does not necessarily address the potential liability of knowing there is a problem and not addressing it.
This article discusses factors to consider when determining whether it is appropriate to conduct an audit, and when it may make sense to just fix a known or likely problem instead of auditing first. Sometimes the best advice is to simply put compliant programs in place and perform necessary training to ensure both current and future compliance.
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