Always Audit Ready: How High-Performing EHS+ Teams Stay Ahead of Regulatory Pressure

The SHIFT is a bi-monthly roundtable for EHS+ leaders. Each episode, a panel works through the questions shaping where EHS+ is heading — live, unscripted, with the audience contributing to the conversation.

Audit readiness isn't an event. It's a state.

OVERVIEW

Regulatory audits do not announce themselves at a convenient time. Reporting windows close fast. The data behind them is often incomplete, siloed, or scattered across systems that were never built to talk to each other. And already stretched thin EHS+ teams are left to pull it together under pressure. 

Teams that walk into an audit prepared usually share a few habits. Corrective actions from the last incident or near-miss are actually closed, not just logged and left open. Permit renewals and training records are tracked against real deadlines, not discovered three weeks before they lapse. Data lives in one place that EHS, operations, and facilities can all see, instead of three spreadsheets that don't agree with each other. None of that happens by accident, and none of it happens the week before an audit.

In this live roundtable, Stuart Cook and Chrissy Smith from Cority, and

Jose Orsini from Trinity Consultants, unpack what separates teams that walk into an audit with confidence from teams that scramble. 

After this webinar, you’ll have a better understanding of:

• Where your audit readiness process is breaking down before it costs you 

• How top-performing teams keep compliance data accurate, accessible, and defensible 

• What continuous audit readiness looks like in practice, not just on paper 

• Candid perspective on what reactive and proactive audit prep looks like, from people who see both up close 

MEET THE SPEAKERS

Who You’ll Hear From

Stuart Cook

SR PRODUCT MARKETING MANAGER, CORITY

Stu Cook is a Senior Product Marketing Manager supporting Cority’s Analytics and Platform solutions. Having worked fornearly 10 years in a variety of marketing and user-focused technology roles, Stu enjoys learning about and improving technology that enables data-driven decision making and simplifies processes for EHS professionals.

Chrissy Smith

DIRECTOR, SOLUTIONS CONSULTING, CORITY

With over 20 years of experience in developing, integrating, and managing customer relationships for software solutions, Christine Smith is a seasoned expert in the EHSQ industry. As the Director of Solutions Consulting at Cority, Christine leads a team of EHS professionals, helping clients align their business needs with software solutions that accelerate value realization.

Jose Orsini, MS, CM

DIRECTOR, SUSTAINABILITY & ASSURANCE, TRINITY CONSULTANTS

Jose Orsini: is the Director of Trinity's Sustainability & Assurance Business Line and leads its National Auditing Group, with over 39 years of multimedia environmental permitting and compliance expertise. His work spans air permitting, NEPA compliance, water and waste management, process safety, facility security, and fire prevention. He has conducted comprehensive EHS audits across industries including chemical manufacturing, steel and aluminum, oil & gas, food processing, and pulp and paper. His experience covers facilities in 25 US states, Puerto Rico, Mexico, and Argentina, including responding to agency enforcement actions on environmental non-compliance.

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