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Auditing the Environmental Laboratory

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Drinking Water and Wastewater

Pennsylvania Association of Accredited Environmental Laboratories

Aaren Alger

office@paael.org

7178560744 Ext.

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AUDITING THE ENVIRONMENTAL LABORATORY An internal audit can alert laboratory personnel to trouble spots and allow time to make changes before regulatory officials arrive. This course outlines the major indicators of a well-functioning laboratory: management responsibility, sample handling, quality system, document control, log books, accuracy and precision, methodology, reagents, method detection limits, data handling, calibration, maintenance, training, corrective action, ethics, and proficiency testing. Organized in a simple checklist format—with items customized to fit state-specific regulations—this course prepares you to thoroughly audit your laboratory. LABORATORY CALCULATIONS One erroneous calculation can produce a string of bad data. Misrepresented data can skew results and mislead the end data user. This course reviews common laboratory calculations including: determination of final concentrations of solutions and standards, percent recovery and relative percent difference calculations and quality control sample precision and accuracy determinations will also be discussed.

Basic thru Intermediate

Full Day Agenda 08:30 a.m. Registration 09:00 a.m. Management Responsibility Commitment Quality Policy Organization 09:30 a.m. Management Review SOP Forms 10:15 a.m. Break 10:30 a.m. Quality System Review Exercise – Perform mock audit Audit each section of QA Manual Audit each analytical method performed Audit final reports 12:00 p.m. Lunch 1:00 p.m. Quality System Review Cont’d 1:30 p.m. Equation Review and Class Exercises 2:15 p.m. Problem Set and Review 2:30 p.m. Break 2:45 p.m. Problem Set and Review Cont’d 3:15 p.m. Auditing the Lab & Basic Calculations - Quiz 4:00 p.m. Adjourn

This seminar is for any laboratory personnel that is responsible for auditing data in an environental laboratory. This would include a total internal audit as well as data audits.

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