develop consensus standards for use by TNI's programs. This group has a support role in assisting other programs with activities such as guidance and standards interpretation.
fosters the generation of data of known and documented quality is through the National Environmental Laboratory Accreditation Program, or NELAP. The purpose of this program is to establish and implement a program for the accreditation of environmental laboratories.
is to establish and maintain a national PT program to support TNI’s National Environmental Laboratory Accreditation Program, and other activities.
Field Activities Program (NEFAP) Executive Committee is to establish and implement an accreditation program for field sampling and measurement organizations (FSMOs).
Audit Sample Program is to develop consensus standards for the manufacture and analysis of audit samples for source emission testing.
on a variety of topics of interest to the environmental measurement community. TNI also hosts two regularly scheduled meetings per year, typically in January and August. Both are a week long and involve open meetings of TNI committees as well as training courses and other special sessions.On-site Assessment Committee Requests Comments
Date Posted: 2-25-2008
The On-site Assessment Module of the Accreditation Body (AB) Requirements (Volume 2, Module 3) was completed in January 2007. While this standard has everything an AB is required to do in connection with an assessment, it does not provide specifics on what the technical disciplines or basic assessor training courses should cover. To help with implementation of the standard, the On-site Assessment committee has developed a draft guidance document entitled Assessor Technical Course Curricula. This document gives course outlines for seven of the required technical disciplines. Eventually the document will include guidance on the composition of the written examination for each discipline. The committee needs your input! Please take a little time to review the draft document and provide feed-back.
Also, by popular demand – the On-site Assessment Committee has turned the old Laboratory On-site Assessment Module into a guidance document. Please take a few minutes to read the daft document and provide feedback.
Comments on these two documents will be accepted until February 1, 2008. Your feed-back is important and appreciated. Thank you.
The documents are available below:
Laboratory Guidance On-Site Assessment
Assessor Technical Course Curricula TNI Guidance Document
The comment form can be found HERE.
Note: you will be returned to the On-site Assessment Committee Activities Page after your comments are submitted.