Tuesday, April 13, 2010: 3:05 p.m.
Continental C (Westin Tabor Center, Denver)
The mission of the TNI Field Activities Committee is to develop specific field accreditation standards for accrediting bodies for field sampling and measurement activities by engaging industry experts in a consensus-based standards development process providing the means to improve the quality and consistency of environmental data throughout the United States.
The committee will support these field accreditation standards with appropriate guidance materials to facilitate implementation and adoption of these standards on a national and international level. The committee is committed to establishing and maintaining an environment for standards development that will ensure continual improvement of field accreditation standards that are aligned with the practical constraints of sampling and field measurement as well as regulatory and industry specific requirements.
The committee will support these field accreditation standards with appropriate guidance materials to facilitate implementation and adoption of these standards on a national and international level. The committee is committed to establishing and maintaining an environment for standards development that will ensure continual improvement of field accreditation standards that are aligned with the practical constraints of sampling and field measurement as well as regulatory and industry specific requirements.
Environmental data cannot be guaranteed unless there are quality steps for all steps of the sample collection and analytical process. TNI FAC has established requirements for quality and management systems at Field Sampling and Measurement Organizations (FSMO’s) to improve the quality of data collection.