Free PECB ISO-14001-Lead-Auditor Exam Practice Questions

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'?

Which one of the following options describes the main purpose of a Stage 1 audit?

You are leading a recertification audit of XM, a manufacturer of cosmetics products. After the initial certification, XM moved to another site.

After the opening meeting, you are visiting the new site with the production manager (PM). The dialogue is as follows:

You: It seems that you are doing some work in the right-hand corner of the site.

PM: Yes, when we moved to this site, there was a very old, three-stories high building; it was almost empty, and we decided to demolish it and to build a new office for the administrative personnel. DEMO services are doing the job, which is almost over.

You: Do you know what the old building was used for?

PM: I was told that it was a warehouse for chemical storage, including a laboratory and toilets for the personnel. It had also a chimney, I do not know what for.

You: Did you consider it necessary to refer to some parts of the EMS for this work?

PM: No, we were busy moving all equipment and materials to the new site, we did not have time to care about something that was going to disappear.

Which four audit trail issues would you follow?

An audit team leader arrives at a steel fabrication organisation that manufactures fire escape stairs to carry out a Stage 2 certification audit. At a meeting with the EMS Manager, she is told that they have won their biggest contract from a construction organisation to manufacture and install fire escape stairs. They appointed a subcontractor to perform the installation work. The EMS Manager wants the ISO 14001 audit extended to cover the installation site.

Select which one of the options is the correct response by the auditor.

An internal auditor of a manufacturer of aluminium products for the car industry raised a nonconformity against section 6.2.2 of ISO 14001 in Report IA202. The nonconformity (NC3) stated:

"Top management has not analysed why none of the environmental objectives set for the last year have been met."

A third-party auditor reviewing the internal audit process came across the nonconformity and found that no corrective action was documented. The EMS Manager confirmed no action had been taken, but added he expected a number of objectives to be achieved in the next three months so there was no need for further action. He explained in confidence that the organisation was fighting a takeover bid and resources for environmental projects had been cut.

From the information, select three non-conformities options that the auditor could raise to ISO 14001.