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.TNI releases DOD/DOE Quality Systems Manual, Version 5.3, with TNI 2009 Standard
Date Posted: 6-19-2019
This manual is based on Volume 1 of The NELAC Institute (TNI) Standards (September 2009), which incorporates International Organization for Standards (ISO)/International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) 17025:2005, General requirements for the competence of testing and calibration laboratories and ISO/IEC17025:2017. Conformance to the requirements contained in this manual is mandatory for any laboratory that is 1) seeking or maintaining accreditation in accordance with the DoD Environmental Laboratory Accreditation Program (ELAP) or 2) seeking or maintaining accreditation in accordance with the DOE Consolidated Audit Program Accreditation Program (DOECAP-AP). Laboratories that comply with the requirements of this manual must also comply with the TNI Standards (September 2009), ISO/IEC 17025:2005, and ISO/IEC 17025:2017 (where noted in grey boxes), unless specific provisions in those standards are superseded by this document. Laboratories that are accredited to ISO/IEC 17025:2017 will meet the ISO 17025:2017 grey box reference requirements of DOD/DOE QSM Version 5.3.
To obtain this version of the manual including TNI, ISO/IEC 17025:2005(E), and ISO/IEC 17025:2017 language, visit our TNI Standards page.