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EHS compliance audits in Switzerland and abroad

EHS compliance audits in Switzerland and abroad

Environmental Engineering (EHS audits)

  • Client: Industries, real estate agencies, funding agencies and private sector

PROJECT DESCRIPTION AND CHARACTERISTICS

The purpose of environmental and health safety audit is to verify whether one or more activities comply with legal requirements for environmental protection. The framework used includes all the laws, directives, ordinances, decrees issued by a country and international treaties.

The compliance audit can be requested by a company which wishes to buy a facility or by a financing group that is solicited for a loan related to a transfer of ownership. It may be required by a parent company to upgrade its subsidiaries or recent acquisitions on the basis of its own standards.

ASSIGNMENT

Geos provides:

  • EHS regulatory watch in Switzerland in order to assess regulation compliance;
  • Site visits and interviews with key site personnel;
  • Reports which highlight the gap between actual practices and legal obligations.

 

Asbestos diagnosis of a building stock – Switzerland

Asbestos diagnosis of a building stock – Switzerland

Environmental Engineering (Quality control of existing buildings)

  • Client: Vaudoise Assurances – Real Estate Investment Division
  • Completion date: 2010 – 2016

PROJECT DESCRIPTION AND CHARACTERISTICS

Following the evolution of the regulations, Vaudoise Assurance wished to have knowledge on the presence of asbestos on its entire property portfolio in French-speaking Switzerland.

ASSIGNMENT

As a specialized agent for Vaudoise Assurances, GEOS conducted the asbestos assessment of 68 residential, administrative and commercial buildings.

GEOS then managed asbestos removal works, organized and monitored renovations of these buildings.