Proficiency Testing Report AGM 2001

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Proficiency Testing ReportAGM 2001

• Debbie Macey
• May 25, 2001

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Accomplishments in 2000

• Addition of 18 new PT parameters
• C-1A Dissolved Strontium, Hardness
• C-1B Ammonia, Orthophosphate, DOC
• C-1C Bromide, Nitrite
• C-2 Dissolved Aluminum, Barium, Beryllium,
  Molybdenum, Boron, Thallium, Silver, Tin,
  Titanium and Uranium
• C-4C Turbidity

• Introduction of proficiency testing for Asbestos
  analysts
• Fee reductions for
• C-11, trout
• C-12, daphnia
• C-13, microtox
• C-14, cyanide
• C-16, BTEX/THM

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Accomplishments continued

• Web Data Entry System introduced
• Eventually eliminate need for Preliminary Reports
• Improve Report turnaround
• Measurement Uncertainty for Environmental
  Laboratories
• Historical Precision Function data
• PT data analysis

• Membership surveys
• New PT offerings
• Concentration ranges
• Available on CAEAL website (www.caeal.ca)
• Standard Operating Procedure for PT Program
• Instruction sheets and Report forms
• Program Committee Minutes

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Web Data Entry Update

• General Observances
• gt 50 participation since December launch
• long standing members and bigger labs are early
  adopters
• Some functionality and operational issues ----gt
  post-study meetings with 3rd party

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Goals for 2001/2002

• Achieve SCC Accreditation as a Proficiency
  Testing Provider (CAN-P-1593)
• Increase frequency of testing for Occupational
  Health parameters (4x per year)
• C-20 asbestos
• C-21 metals in air
• C-28 organics in air
• Full implementation of Web Data Entry System

• Introduce Remedial Action policy
• Require labs to submit Corrective Action Plan
  following a PT failure
• Program Committee
• Continue to review concentration ranges and
  parameters in existing test groups
• Review of PT Reports

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Future Directions

• Divide C-2 (metals in water) into multiple test
  groups?
• high vs. low concentrations
• drinking water vs. waste water
• Addition of new microbiology tests?
• E. coli
• HPC
• Presence/absence (E. coli coliforms)
• Offer asbestos for accreditation?

• Addition of new Occupational Health parameters?
• C-28/29 organics in air
• Pilot studies?
• PHC in soil
• TLCP leachates
• Addition of new volatiles to C-16?
• Continue to reduce PT fees?
• Increase PT sample frequency?
• Use Precision Function data