The NELAC Institute Proficiency Testing Board PT Board

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The NELAC InstituteProficiency Testing Board
(PT Board)
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TNI PT Board

• Carl Kircher, FL DOH, Chair
• Gary Dechant, AQS
• Steve Gibson, TCEQ
• Raeann Haynes, OR DEQ
• Bill Ingersoll, US Navy
• Svetlana Isozamova, Accutest

• Michella Karapondo, US EPA
• Kirsten McCracken, TestAmerica
• Richard Sheibley, WS Consulting
• Matt Sica, ME DOH
• Eric Smith, TestAmerica
• Curtis Wood, ERA

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Purpose

• Establish and maintain a national PT program to
  support a national environmental laboratory
  accreditation program.

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Elements of Program

• Ensure adequate oversight of PT providers
• Establish Fields of Proficiency Testing
• Matrices, analytes, concentrations, formulation
  recommendations, and acceptance limits
• General management of program

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Oversight of PT Providers

• Provide assistance to the TNI Board of Directors
  on the selection of Proficiency Testing Provider
  Accreditors (PTPAs)
• Evaluate new organizations seeking to become
  PTPAs, and monitor existing PTPAs to assure
  that they are following the requirements set
  forth by TNI

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Establish Fields of Proficiency Testing

• Review evaluate PT data for the purposes of
  determining the appropriateness of PT study
  formulations, concentrations, acceptance limits
• Provide recommendations to the NELAP Board as to
  PT study formulations, concentration ranges, and
  acceptance limits

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General Management

• Facilitate an annual caucus on proficiency
  testing.
• Serve as a review board for unresolved complaints
  about PT samples among environmental
  laboratories, accreditation bodies, PTPAs, and
  PT Providers that the PTPA cannot resolve.
• Represent TNI assume a leadership role, where
  appropriate, in activities involving national
  international PT standards development
  implementation of PT programs
• ANSI International Conformity Assessment
  Committee (ICAC)

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TNI PT Board SOPs

• PT Board Operations
• PT Board Voting Process
• PTPA Evaluation Process
• PT Acceptance Criteria Evaluation
• Conducting the Annual PT Caucus
• Handling Complaints
• PTPA Appeal Process (draft)

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Fields of Proficiency Testing Tables

• DW Accreditation Analytes (Micro., Chem.)
• DW Accreditation Analytes (Radiochem.)
• DW Experimental Analytes
• NPW Accreditation Analytes
• NPW Experimental Analytes
• SCM Accreditation Analytes
• SCM Experimental Analytes

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PT Board Current Activities

• Microbiology FoPT Subcommittee
• PTPA On-Going Monitoring of PT Providers
• Annual PT Caucus Jan. 16, 2008
• Biennial evaluation of A2LA as PTOB/PTPA
• Includes observing on-site assessment of PT
  Provider
• Input to ISO 17043 Working Draft
• Special Session Jan. 17, 2008 (Air Emissions
  Field Sampling Measurements Proficiency Testing)