The Board of Environmental, Health & Safety Auditor Certifications (BEAC) -- a nonprofit corporation that issues professional certifications relating to environmental, health and safety auditing -- offers a six-step training program leading to an environmental auditing certification. Once registered with the BEAC system, applicants receive an extensive training packet, including CDs and textbooks.
The Institute of Environmental Management and Assessment (IEMA) offers a course in the basic groundwork of environmental auditing. While the IEMA explicitly states that completion of this introductory course does not necessarily indicate an individual's capability to audit on his own, it does provide important groundwork for future coursework. The course concludes with a practical exercise, giving students hands-on auditing experience in a real workplace.
The United Kingdom's Stonebridge Associated Colleges offer a distance learning course in environmental auditing and reporting. The course is divided into five primary sessions. The first is an introduction to the types of auditing, the second delves into the managerial duties of the auditor over clients, the third discusses the extensive preparations that must be made prior to the audit, the fourth offers hints for during the audit and the fifth explores how completed audits should be reported and presented.
The Chemistry department of California State University, Long Beach offers an environmental auditing and reporting course. Various techniques and methods of auditing are explored and critiqued, and the role of the auditor within the state and federal governments is examined. Both written and oral examinations conclude the course.