1 Quality Management Planning and Implementation

a.     Quality Assurance Overview

b.     Common Elements of the UFP and EPA QAPP Structures

                                               i.     Setting Data Quality Objectives

                                              ii.     Regulatory Compliance

                                             iii.     Identifying Responsible Personnel

c.      QAPP Drivers

                                               i.     Phase I Investigations

                                              ii.     Remediation and Feasibility: Cost Assessments

                                             iii.     Risk Assessment

d.     Understanding Data Quality Indicators

                                               i.     Precision

                                              ii.     Accuracy

                                             iii.     Representativeness

                                             iv.     Reproducibility

                                              v.     Completeness

2 Efficiently Writing the QAPP

a.     Collecting Foundation Materials

b.     Measurement Performance Criteria

                                               i.     Field Quality Control (QC) Samples

                                              ii.     Laboratory QC Samples

                                             iii.     Method Requirements

                                             iv.     Making QA Guidance Work for You

c.      Implementation of Drivers into the QAPP

d.     The Devil is in the Details

                                               i.     Laboratory SOPs, LOQs, and MDLs

                                              ii.     Target Quantitation Limits

                                             iii.     Controlling the Structural Elements

                                             iv.     Coupling the QAPP and the Field Sampling Plan

3 Making the QAPP work for you

a.     Organizational Efficiency

b.     Communication Pathways

c.      Bottle Orders

d.     Performing Data Assessments

Dr. Deb Gaynor

Dr. Gaynor has more than 30 years of analytical chemistry and environmental management and consulting experience. For eleven years she worked closely with the USEPA through the Contract Laboratory Program (CLP). In 2000, she founded Phoenix Chemistry Services, to provide expert analytical chemistry consulting services, data validation, and quality assurance services to laboratories and engineering companies performing hazardous site investigation and remediation services as well as long-term monitoring for all environmental contaminants in solids, liquids, air, sediment, and biota. She has extensive experience in the development and performance of analyses of environmental samples on GC and GC/MS systems, while ensuring compliance with quality assurance programs. She has managed the GC/MS section of a large environmental laboratory, and has worked as the Quality Assurance Officer of a microbiology laboratory. Dr. Gaynor has provided software training for chromatographic instrumentation in laboratories serving the needs of environmental, petrochemical, pharmaceutical, and clinical industries.She has also developed and taught in-house courses for laboratory personnel on chromatography and quality assurance. Dr. Gaynor is a member of The NELAC Institute Chemistry Expert Committee. 

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