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This course is directed to project planners, quality assurance officers, supervisors of field activities operations, sampling personnel, and reviewers of field activities operations. The course will provide guidance on the general quality assurance/quality control (QA/QC) requirements to acquire technically and legally defensible environmental data from field operations. The quality assurance and quality control requirements presented during this course are based on the NELAC standard (2002) Chapter 7 and a variety of sample collection references from Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Department of Defense and ASTM.
This course is based on the revised DQO Process as described in the recently released guidance Systematic Planning using the Data Quality Objectives Process (EPA QA/G-4 2006) This course examines the revised seven step DQO Process as it applies to both decision making and estimation. Examples are presented and methods to better interpret variability, gray area, decision error rates, and scale of decision making/estimation are discussed. This is the successor course to Introduction to the DQO Process. Participants are expected to have attended the basic DQO course or have a good working knowledge of the DQO Process.
This course is based on the recently released guidance Data Quality Assessment: A Reviewer's Guide (EPA QA/G9R 2006). This course examines what should be present when a DQA has been performed on the results of a project. The five steps of DQA will be discussed in qualitative terms and no statistical formulae or techniques. Participants will be led through a report on manganese that was intended to be a suitable DQA. Participants are expected to have a working knowledge of systematic planning but not of statistics.
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