Monitoring Workgroup

The Monitoring Workgroup consists of board members and volunteers interested in a topic being addressed at any given time. At the request of the Board and in concert with other Environmental Laboratory Advisory Board (i.e., ELAB or the Board) workgroups, the Monitoring Workgroup will research, study, evaluate, and/or assess issues of concern to the environmental laboratory testing community and will make recommendations to the entire Board for action consistent with ELAB’s Federal Advisory Committee Act (FACA) Charter, as appropriate. Issues relevant to this workgroup include, but are not limited to the following: training and/or accreditation of laboratory employees and assessors; consistency in operating practice and deliverables amongst accreditors and assessors; improvements of the audit practice relevant to laboratories; standardization of accreditation and proficiency testing analytes between accreditors; formation and implementation of a proficiency testing oversight body/ proficiency testing provider accreditor; the role of laboratory management in monitoring laboratory fulfillment of the national accreditation standards; and the pursuit of the goal of a single national environmental laboratory accreditation program.

Board Workgroup Members:

Judy Morgan – Group Leader
Skip Kingston
Orval Osborne
Jim Pletl
Michael Wichman

Attached below are the minutes of the workgroup and draft documents by the workgroup for consideration of the Board. Workgroups are utilized to assist the Board in dealing with an array of matters under discussion and distribute the workload in information gathering for the Boards consideration. The files within this section are in no way considered approved or final products of the Board.

Monitoring Workgroup

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