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Renee Spears QA Officer
February 10, 2016
The Water Boards’ Quality System
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Requirements and Goals of a Quality System
Quality Assurance and Quality Control
Water Boards’ Quality Systems
Types of Quality Assurance Documents
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Outline
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It is a means by which an organization or business manages its quality aspects in a systematic, organized manner.
It provides a system for carrying out Quality Assurance and Quality Control activities.
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What is a Quality System?
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A Quality System
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ANSI/ASQC E4-1994 Specifications and Guidelines for Quality Systems for Environmental Data. This consists of guidance for planning, implementing and assessing data operations including the collection, handling, analysis and evaluation of data.
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The Water Boards’ Quality System Requirements
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Documentation of the organization’s quality system – the Quality Management Plan.
Documentation of the application of QA/QC specific efforts by preparing and implementing quality documents.
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The Water Boards’ Quality System Requirements
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Protection of human health and the environment
Make correct decisions
Conserve/optimize resource use
Ensure that environmental programs and decisions are supported by the data of the type and quality needed for their intended use
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The Water Boards’ Quality System Goals
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A Quality System
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QUALITY ASSURANCE (QA) is an integrated system of management activities that involves planning, implementation, documentation, assessment, reporting and quality improvement. It ensures that a process produces reliable and verifiable data tailored for the specific project.
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Quality Assurance
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QUALITY CONTROL (QC) is an overall system of technical activities that measure the attributes and performances of a process against defined standards to verify that they meet the stated requirements established by the customer.
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Quality Control
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The Water Boards’ Quality System
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Reduced or justifiable resource expenditures
Effective management of internal and external activities
Reliable and defensible decisions based on reliable and defensible data.
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Quality Management Plan Benefits
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Quality Management Plan
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The QMP documents how an organization structures its quality system and describes its quality policies and procedures.
The QMP’s purpose is to provide the framework to guide the acquisition of environmental data that is credible and achievable for the organization.
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Quality Management Plan
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State Board Program Manager:
Ensures that there are sufficient resources for the Quality System and that all applicable Programs comply with the QMP
Quality Assurance Officer:
Prepares annual Quality Assurance report for US EPA R9
Organizes the quarterly QA Roundtable
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Quality Management Plan Roles and Responsibilities
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The QMP calls for staff from the Regional Boards and Programs to:
Participates in the QA Roundtable
Prepares annual QA report to the State Water Board
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Quality Management Plan
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A Quality Assurance Program Plan (QAPrP):
Describes the program’s needs for the data it acquires and how the data will be used to answer questions that guides the program.
Overarching and more specific than the QMP
A graded or tailored approach is used.
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Quality Assurance Program Plan
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Surface Water Ambient Monitoring Program (SWAMP) QA Program Plan- under revision
National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) QA Program Plan- under construction
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Quality Assurance Program Plan Examples
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A Quality Assurance Project Plan (QAPP):
Describes the decisions to be made.
Identifies the information/measurements needed.
Defines study boundaries --when/where sampling events should occur.
Includes criteria on which the decisions will be made, (e.g., regulatory standards, action levels.)
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Quality Assurance Project Plans
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Division of Financial Assistance projects -Citizen Monitoring Groups projects
-Large grant funded projects Section 303 (d) Water Body listing and delisting
projects Conditional Waivers of Waste Discharge
Requirements Beach Monitoring Stream Pollution Trends Monitoring Program (SPoT) Bioaccumulation Oversight Group
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Quality Assurance Project Plans Examples
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Standard Operating Procedures (SOP)
A set of written instructions that document a routine or repetitive activity which an organization follows
Facilitate consistent conformance which supports data quality
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Standard Operating Procedures
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Analytical test procedures for CWA and SDWA
SWAMP Field and Lab SOPs; SOPs for data reporting and flagging
Drinking Water Notification Rules
Beach Monitoring Program
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Standard Operating Procedures Examples
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The Water Boards’ Quality System
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Contact:
Renee Spears, QA Officer
Office of Information Management and Analysis
(916) 341-5583
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Questions?