Who should participate: This one-hour course is directed toward laboratory
directors, managers, analysts, quality control officers, and operators who
oversee or perform laboratory or field measurements, and particularly those
who may be called upon to defend scientific data.

Learning objectives: This program is designed to provide attendees with the
knowledge necessary to design, implement, and/or use a formal standard
operating procedure program. Attendees will learn how to recognize correct,
or approved, methods. After the course, the participants will know how to
confirm that a method is approved, how to create an SOP, and understand the
proper role of the SOP.

Course Description: Regulatory agencies often mandate specific methods or
method performance for data to be reportable. The course will discuss
various methods and how they relate to various programs. In addition to
method selection, the role of Standard Operating Procedures will be
reviewed. The design and format of SOP's and how they will be an aid in
training and consistency in the laboratory will be presented.

Course Content:

Definitions
       •  Standard Method
       •  Official Method
       •  SOP

Analytical Methodology Requirements
       •  Location
       •  Accessibility
       •  Method Validation
                o Purpose
                o Who should perform
                o Concentration of standards to use
                o Types of testing to perform
                     •  Control samples
                     •  Blanks
                     •   Duplicates
                     •   Spikes

       •  Standard Operating Procedures
                o Operational
                o  Procedural
                o Requirements
                o Content

Sources of Approved Environmental Methods
       •  How to determine which method is applicable
       •  NPDES approved methods
                o EPA
                o Standard Methods

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