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.Request for Comments on a Draft Revision of the 2009 TNI Environmental Sector Standard Volume 2 Module 1, General Requirements for Accreditation Bodies Accrediting Environmental Laboratories
Date Posted: 4-17-2019
The TNI Laboratory Accreditation Body Expert Committee is providing an outline of the proposed changes that both combines Volume 2 Modules 1 and 3 into one module, and also updates the module so that it is based on the 2017 revision of ISO/IEC 17011. This outline of proposed changes is located at this link: https://nelac-institute.org/docs/standards/2019/EL-V2-Summary.pdf.
The comment period will be open for sixty (60) days. Please send your comments and proposed revised text by June 16, 2019 to both Carl Kircher ([email protected]) and Lynn Bradley, the Program Administrator for the LAB Expert Committee ([email protected]). All comments will be tracked by Lynn and you will be notified of the committee’s response to your comment.
The LAB Expert Committee is also providing a description of the process used for combining the two modules from the 2009 Standard and then transferring the TNI additional language from the 2004 version of ISO/IEC 17011 into the 2017 version. That description is located at this link: https://nelac-institute.org/docs/standards/2019/EL-V2-ProcessBackground.pdf.
Additionally, for TNI members, a copy of the draft language of the proposed revised module V2M1 is located in the Members Only section of the TNI website. Click here to go there now.