Section 149.36. Laboratory personnel.

 

(1)   Management and analytical staff. The laboratory shall have personnel with education, training or experience that allows them to comply with the requirements of this chapter.

(2)   Personnel involved in drinking water analyses. Additional education and training requirements of management and analytical staff involved in analyzing drinking water are contained in Chapters III and IV of the "Manual for the Certification of Laboratories Analyzing Drinking Water", EPA 815-R-05-004, fifth edition, EPA, Office of Groundwater and Drinking Water, January 2005.

(3)   Demonstration of capability.

(a) When laboratories reference methods that contain protocols for demonstrating initial capability, continuing capability or both, personnel performing analyses using these methods shall perform the protocols, meet any associated evaluation criteria and document results.

(b) When a laboratory references an analytical test method that does not contain protocols for demonstrating initial capability, continuing capability or both, the laboratory shall establish demonstration of capability criteria for determining that each person who performs testing on compliance samples using the method has demonstrated the necessary skills and expertise required to generate quality analytical results. The laboratory shall retain documentation that each person performing a given test on compliance samples has satisfied the demonstration of capability criteria established by the laboratory.

History: CR 06-005 : cr. Register April 2008 No. 628 , eff. 9-1-08.

Note

This document is available at: http://www.epa.gov/safewater/labcert/labindex.html . Microsoft Windows NT 6.1.7601 Service Pack 1