Compliance Audit Services
Compliance Audit Services: Before the Inspector Arrives
A compliance audit is your facility's honest assessment against EPA and OSHA requirements. Not a walkthrough. A documented review of regulatory obligations, program implementation, training, recordkeeping, and operational alignment. We find the gaps. You fix them. The inspector finds nothing.
What a Compliance Audit Delivers
Every compliance audit covers the full regulatory landscape your facility faces — not just one domain. Environmental air, water, and waste compliance. Safety programs and OSHA requirements. Cross-program gaps that create exposure.
Regulatory Applicability Review
Confirm which federal, state, and local requirements actually apply to your facility. Most operations are either over-regulated (wasting compliance resources) or under-regulated (carrying hidden exposure). We map your true compliance obligations.
Program Gap Analysis
Environmental + safety programs assessed against current standards. Written procedures reviewed. Training completeness verified. Recordkeeping audited. Identify where your programs fall short of regulatory requirements.
Cross-Program Risk Assessment
Identify where environmental and safety regulations overlap, conflict, or leave exposure gaps. A chemical inventory program that satisfies safety HazCom might miss environmental reporting. We catch these bridges.
Priority-Ranked Findings
Every finding includes the specific regulatory citation, the current gap, the required corrective action, estimated cost, implementation timeline, and responsible party. Findings are ranked by regulatory severity and operational impact — so you fix the highest-risk items first.
Corrective Action Roadmap
A realistic, phased plan to close gaps. Not just a finding list. A timeline that aligns with operations, budgets, and your team's capacity. Knowing what to fix is half the battle. Knowing how to fix it is the other half.
Ongoing Compliance Bridge
The audit identifies gaps. A COOP retainer prevents them from recurring. Most audit clients move directly to monthly or quarterly retainer support — turning a one-time assessment into continuous compliance oversight.
Compliance Audit Services iSi Performs
Environmental Compliance Audits
Air emissions, water discharge, wastewater, stormwater, hazardous waste management, pollution prevention, spill response, and environmental reporting (TRI, EPCRA, state permits).
OSHA Compliance Audits
Written safety programs, hazard communication, PPE, fall protection, lockout/tagout, confined space, emergency procedures, training, and OSHA 300 recordkeeping.
Industrial Hygiene (IH) Compliance
Exposure assessment, air sampling, noise monitoring, personal protective equipment evaluation, and occupational health program completeness against OSHA and industry standards.
Integrated EHS Compliance
All three domains assessed together in one audit. Catches cross-program gaps that separate audits miss. One site visit, one team, one integrated findings report.
Pre-Inspection Audits
If you know an EPA or OSHA inspection is coming — or you've heard rumors — run a pre-audit first. Find gaps before the inspector does. Prepare corrective actions. Document your compliance commitment.
Post-Inspection Response Audits
After a citation, assess the full compliance picture to prevent recurrence. Understand not just what the inspector cited, but what they could cite next time they come back.
Compliance Gaps Most Facilities Miss
These scenarios look compliant on the surface. Underneath, they carry real exposure. We see them at nearly every facility we assess for the first time.
Environmental Permit Lapsed. Nobody Noticed.
Your facility operates under an air permit issued in 2018. The permit required renewal every 5 years. It lapsed silently in 2023. Your operation hasn't changed — you're still running the same processes, the same hours, the same emissions profile. But you're now operating without current authorization.
An EPA audit would find this immediately. An unaddressed lapsed permit is a documented violation. The fix is retroactive — you'll likely owe back permit fees, applicability analysis, and corrective paperwork the regulator specifies.
EPA penalties for operating without required permits run $15,000–$40,000+ per violation. The permit renewal itself costs $1,500–$5,000.
Is this happening at your facility?
Hazardous Waste Generator Status Changed. Reporting Didn't.
Two years ago, your facility generated 400 pounds of hazardous waste per month. You filed as a small-quantity generator (SQG) — 100–1,000 pounds/month. This year, production increased. You're now generating 1,200 pounds/month. You're a large-quantity generator (LQG) with different reporting, accumulation, and manifesting requirements. Nobody updated your hazardous waste program.
Your waste is being manifested under the wrong generator status. If an inspector pulls records, all of this year's manifests are non-compliant on their face.
EPA citations for hazardous waste status violations run $25,000–$75,000 per citation. Multiply by the number of manifests filed improperly.
Is this happening at your facility?
We Plug In. You Level Up.
Your internal compliance person is solid. But they were hired as a safety manager. Environmental compliance didn't exist as a dedicated role. They've built a program, but gaps exist in domains where their training is thinnest — air permitting, stormwater, hazardous waste classification. These aren't lapses in effort. They're gaps in expertise availability.
A compliance audit identifies exactly where your internal expert can strengthen their knowledge — and where they need external support. iSi plugs in where expertise is thin, so your person handles the 40% requiring on-site judgment and iSi handles the 60% surrounding work.
Replacing this expertise with a full-time hire costs $130,000–$195,000/year. iSi COOP retainers start at $15,000/year for a national team in 40 states.
Is this strategy working at your facility?
What It Costs & When You'll See ROI
A single OSHA willful violation runs up to $165,514. A single lapsed environmental permit costs $15,000–$40,000+. An iSi compliance audit costs a fraction of one citation. The ROI is immediate — and compounds if the audit prevents even one enforcement action. After the audit, most clients move to a COOP retainer ($15,000–$90,000/year) for ongoing oversight.
How the Engagement Works
iSi delivers fixed-price compliance audits. We scope the work upfront so there are no surprises. Here's how it flows.
Scope Call (15 min)
Tell us about your facility: size, industry, processes, current programs, and what triggered the audit (proactive planning, pre-inspection, post-citation). We ask targeted questions to understand scope.
Fixed Price Quote (under 30 min)
We return a fixed price for the audit scope. No hourly rates. No surprises. Turnaround under 30 minutes, not 7–14 days like most consultants.
Field Assessment (1–3 days)
iSi consultants arrive on-site. Document review, facility walkthrough, interviews with operations and safety teams. Assessment scope depends on facility size and complexity.
Findings Report (2–3 weeks)
Complete written report: regulatory citations, priority-ranked findings, corrective action roadmap, cost estimates, timelines, responsible parties. Written for operations leaders and safety managers—clear, actionable, specific.
COOP Transition (optional)
Most audit clients move to a COOP retainer for ongoing compliance support. The audit identifies the gaps. The retainer prevents them from recurring through continuous monitoring, documentation updates, and regulatory surveillance.
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The 60% Surrounding Work Frame
Your safety manager handles the 40% of compliance that requires on-site presence and professional judgment. But what about the other 60%—the monitoring, reporting, documentation updates, regulatory tracking, and program maintenance?
That's where gaps hide. That's where citations happen. A compliance audit surfaces those gaps. A COOP retainer prevents them from recurring. iSi handles the 60% so your person focuses on the decisions that actually require them.
This is the plug-in augmentation model: your expertise + iSi's process coverage = comprehensive compliance without building new headcount.
Compliance Audit FAQ
What is a compliance audit?
A compliance audit is a comprehensive assessment of your facility's adherence to environmental and safety regulations. It evaluates written programs, procedures, training, recordkeeping, and operational practices against current EPA and OSHA standards — then identifies gaps and prioritizes corrective actions.
Who needs a compliance audit?
Any manufacturing facility, industrial operation, or commercial business where environmental or safety compliance is material. Especially facilities where one person manages both EHS domains, or where internal teams lack deep expertise in specific regulatory areas like air permitting, hazardous waste, or OSHA program compliance.
What does a compliance audit cost?
iSi compliance audits start at $3,500 depending on facility size and scope. A single OSHA willful violation costs up to $165,514. A single unaddressed environmental violation costs $15,000–$40,000+. The audit typically pays for itself many times over by preventing just one enforcement action.
How long does a compliance audit take?
Field assessment typically takes 1–3 days depending on facility size, number of processes, and regulatory scope. iSi delivers findings report within 2–3 weeks of site work completion. Turnaround is faster than most consultancies because we price fixed, not hourly, and maintain streamlined assessment protocols.
What happens after the audit?
You receive a complete findings report with priority-ranked gaps, regulatory citations, corrective action recommendations with cost estimates and timelines. Most clients then move to a COOP retainer for ongoing compliance monitoring — the audit identifies the gaps, the retainer prevents them from recurring.
How is this different from an EHS audit?
An EHS audit integrates environmental and safety program review in one assessment. A compliance audit focuses on your facility's adherence to specific regulatory requirements. iSi often starts with a compliance audit, then moves into domain-specific (EHS or environmental-only) audits if deeper work is needed in particular areas.
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Find the Gaps Before the Regulator Does
Fixed-price compliance audits. 40-state coverage. iSi plugs into your team as the regulatory expert you need.
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