实验室质量管理体系内部审核的实施

在实施ISO／IEC17025：1999标准《检测和校准实验室能力的通用要求》过程中，通过实验室质量管理体系内部审核的实践与系统分析，识别出内部审核实施阶段的关键环节，提出召开首次会议、收集审核证据、确定审核发现和召开末次会议的技术方法，对提高内部审核的质量和有效性、获得可靠的审核结论具有重要意义。     

环境监测实验室质量管理体系中一个不容忽视的问题

针对环境监测机构在实验室认可管理体系中存在的不容忽视的问题,及对硬件加强计量管理的措施与办法进行了阐述,结合工作实际,着重阐述了环境监测机构应如何将监测分析仪器和标准物质的管理工作,与计量管理部门紧密联系,严格执行计量法的有关规定,确保各项措施落实到位,以保证监测分析仪器的安全、可靠、稳定地运行,从而保证监测数据的准确性、可比性,为环境管理提供有力的技术保障。     

实验室质量负责人必须重视的宣贯第一课

文中分析了实验室质量负责人讲好管理体系宣贯第一课的重要性,介绍了这一课的内容应该如何设置,为读者参与实验室的日常管理和质量负责人的宣贯工作提供参考。     

论环境监测实验室的HSE管理

对环境监测实验室的安全、环保与健康的管理作了全面的阐述，提出应实行程序化、制度化、规范化和一体化的管理，并建立HSE管理体系。这是实施实验室国家认可的要求，也是环境监测实验室走向标准化和现代化的重要标志。     

清洁生产审核在企业ISO14000环境管理体系实施中的应用

对清洁生产、ISO14000环境管理体系的内涵作了简介，着重从理论到实践经验上探讨清洁生产审核在ISO14000环境管理体系推进过程中，环境因素和重大环境因素识别；目标、指标、环境管理方案建立；具体实施过程中的应用。     

关于小型污水处理厂实验室管理的若干问题探讨

从分析小型污水处理厂实验室现状入手,指出当前污水处理厂实验室存在的问题,并就其规范化管理的重要性进行了探讨。     

Meteorological Considerations in Air Quality Planning

Results from dispersion models which are routinely used for regulatory purposes do not reflect the uncertainties which are Inherent In the input data. To remedy this, a formula for propagating measurement uncertainties of emission rate, wind speed, wind direction, horizontal dispersion parameter, vertical dispersion parameter, effective emission height, and mixing depth is derived for EPA’s Industrial Source Complex Short Term (ISCST) Gaussian dispersion model for the simple case of a single stack-type source and nonbuoyant plume. Values for the uncertainties of the input variables are chosen and used to calculate ambient concentration uncertainties. These calculated uncertainties are compared with the standard deviation of ambient concentrations calculated from 2500 input data sets for each of four stability classes and three downwind distances, which were randomly altered to simulate the effects of measurement uncertainty. The calculated uncertainties do not differ significantly from the standard deviations of the randomized calculations for input data uncertainties as high as 30 percent and Stability Classes A-C. The calculated uncertainties overestimate the actual uncertainty of model calculations for input data uncertainties greater than 20 percent for Stability Class D.     

A Quality Assurance Management Plan

California Air Resources Board (CARB) staff developed a phased integrated approach to implement the Standing Air Monitoring Work Group’s (SAMWG) quality assurance requirements. This approach separates quality assurance requirements into a single project with a management plan and manager, and assigns each requirement to one of three key task areas—standardized methods and procedures measurement standards and tests, and audits. Tasks are assigned priorities and a detailed management plan is developed with SAMWG dates as milestones.

Benefits of the phased integrated approach are a streamlined, flexible quality assurance program; maximum utilization of personnel and resources; timely implementation of SAMWG requirements; a uniform quality assurance program applied to state, local, and private industry monitoring programs; and data with documented precision and accuracy. Additionally, peculiarities of procedures and analyzers that lead to data inaccuracies are quickly identified and corrected.     

Polar Fluxgrams for Air Quality Management

When an airshed is affected by a spatially complex distribution of emitting sources, the angular distribution of tracer fluxes about one or more receptor sites may usefully distinguish the relative contributions of different upwind sources at that site. Such “fluxgrams” complement chemical-mass-balance receptor models to assist decisions affecting optimum emission controls and receptor placement. The technique is illustrated here with B_sp/PM₁₀ in a heavily industrialized valley where, surprisingly, fluxgram analyses show that winter haze exceedances are associated with nighttime winds draining into the industrial lower valley from an upwind residential community.     

An Approach to Air Quality Management Standards

The Clean Air Amendments of 1970 impose a stringent set of uniform air quality standards and a rigid timetable for achieving them. Such an approach is open to serious question, since it fails to take account of variations in relevant local conditions. This paper sketches a proposal for a more realistic approach to air quality. It suggests a program of management standards that would reflect the needs and circumstances of particular regions. An institutional framework is outlined that would consider the technical, economic, and social constraints that determine how quickly and how much any area can improve its air quality. The framework would provide the needed flexibility, and would employ a feedback approach that avoids the need to resolve all uncertainties before any progress can be made. At the same time, it would impose a timetable and planning process to assure that all feasible progress in air quality improvement is realized nationwide.     

Air Quality: Status,Management and Direction

The Tenth Government Affairs Seminar conducted by the Air Pollution Control Association was held in Washington, D.C. on March 17–18, 1982. The APCA Government Affairs Committee of which John S. Lagarias is Chairman, sponsored this meeting. Dr. Jerry Pell was General Chairman of the Seminar Steering Committee which included in its membership: Gordon M. Rapier, Vice-chairman, William K. Bonta, Facilities Chairman, Barbara Bankoff, David Benforado, D. Kent Berry, Samuel Booras, William Chapman, Stanley Coloff, Philip T. Cummings, Roy S. Denham, Gerald P. Dodson, Daniel Dreyfus, Raymond W. Durante, Victor S. Engleman, Richard Grundy, W. G. Hamlin, Glenn Hanson, G. Steve Hart, Terrence Li Puma, Michael Lukey, John E. Maroney, William Megonnell, Curtis A. Moore, Russell Mosher, Joseph Mullan, Sidney R. Orem, Dennis G. Seipp, Martin L. Smith, Roger Strelow, Michael Tinkleman, Neal Troy.

This meeting served as a forum for discussion of the issues of: the Clean Air Act amendments, regulatory reform, international perspectives on acid rain, and new directions pursued by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

Representative Henry A. Waxman, Chairman, Subcomittee on Health and the Environment, Committee on Energy and Commerce, U.S. House of Representatives, was the keynote speaker. The Honorable C. Boyden Gray, Counsel to the Vice President of the United States was the luncheon speaker on Wednesday. Daniel J. Goodwin, President, State and Territorial Air Pollution Program Administrators, was the luncheon speaker on Thursday.

Session 1. entitled “The Clean Air Act: Legislative Status,” was moderated by G. Steve Hart, President of APCA. Session 2. “Regulatory Reform,” was chaired by Richard N. Holwill, Vice President for Government Information, The Heritage Foundation. The Honorable A. Alan Hill, and Gordon Snow, from the President’s Council on Environmental Quality were co-moderators for Session 3. which was entitled, “Acid Rain: International Perspectives.” Session 4. “Critical Issues,” was moderated by Walter C. Barber, Jr., Director, Office of Air Quality Planning and Standards, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

Condensed versions of the remarks of the participants are presented here. A more extensive summary of the meeting which includes floor discussion is available in the Proceedings of the Tenth APCA Government Seminar which can be obtained from APCA headquarters.     

A Microprocessor-Based Air Quality Monitoring System

Portable air quality monitoring systems may be required to supplement fixed installations or to provide for quick response to a transient situation, possibly at a remote location. A microprocessor-based monitoring unit has been developed for use with existing sensors. The unit is portable and its operational sequence can be programmed to adapt it to any unique requirements existing at the deployment site. Selectable on-site calculations are performed on raw data, and a hard copy or tape record of results can be produced.