Data Quality Objectives (DQO) Seminar

February 6, 2012
9am – 5pm
Ascott, Makati City (Formerly Oakwood Hotel)

Fee: Php 8,000.00 / person plus 12% VAT

• Early Registration Payment: Ten-Percent (10%) Discount if PAID thirty (30) days before the training date
• Group Discount: Five-Percent (5%) on Three (3) or More Participants

 
 
 
 
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Course Objective:

• To introduce the attendees the process of determining and achieving project specific data quality objectives.
• The objective of every environmental investigation is to collect defensible data that will serve the intended purpose of the investigation. By ensuring that the data gathered is of the desired quality then and only then can the investigation achieve its objectives.

Who should attend:

• Target attendees are consultants involved in site investigations, remedial action, basically anyone who makes a decision based on the data gathered from samples collected in a site.
• Those who design sampling plans and determine the objectives of a field sampling will also find this seminar very educational.
• This can also be interesting to laboratory managers especially those who are dealing with consulting clients they will have a deeper understanding at how the data they present to the clients are validated and checked.

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Course Outline

• Introduction to Data Quality Objectives (DQO) – This will include discussion of the following:
  • DQO Process as described in EPA QA/ G-4HW
  • data quality indicators (DQIs)
    • Precision
    • Accuracy
    • Completeness
    • Reporting Limits
    • Representativeness
    • Comparability
  • Standard Documents
    • US EPA Contract Laboratory Program (CLP) National Functional Guidelines for Data Review for Organic (2008) and Inorganic (2010) Analysis
    • Department of Toxic Substances Control (DTSC) Data Validation Memorandum
    • EPA Guidance on Data Verification and Data Validation
    • EPA SW-846 Online Resources
• Basic Concepts of a Quality Assurance Project Plan (QAPP) and Field Sampling Plan (FSP)
  • What is in a QAPP/ FSP
  • Project specific DQIs and DQOs
  • Field quality control samples
    • Trip blanks
    • Equipment blanks
    • Field blanks
    • Duplicate samples
  • Containers, preservation, and holding time
  • SW 846 Chapter 9 – Sampling Plan
• Quality Assurance/Quality Control (QA/QC) During the Analytical Process
  • Method Blanks (MB)
  • Matrix Spike/ Matrix Spiked Duplicate (MS/MSD)
  • Laboratory Control Spike/ Duplicate(LCS/LCSD)
  • Surrogates
  • Method Specific Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) example for 8260B
• Level 2 Data Validation Process
  • Typical Analytical Report
  • Data Review Basics
  • Data Validation Forms
• Exercises
  • Sample Analytical Reports for 9th Street Removal Action
  • Data Validation a Team Activity – The participants will be split up into two teams, one team will work on the data validation of one sample analytical report using data validation forms to be provided.
• Data Validation Memorandum (DVM)
  • Objectives of a DVM
  • Preparation of a DVM
  • Sample DVM for the sample data that was reviewed in the team activity
• Conclusion/Closing/Q&A

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Berwyn Salazar, REA

Berwyn is a Project Manager/ Engineer at Tetra Tech’s Pasadena office. He has more than 10 years of experience conducting complex environmental investigations, evaluating surface and ground water resources, remediating soil and groundwater, and managing hazardous waste. He has worked on a variety of projects involving air, soil, sediment, and water quality studies, permitting, and regulatory compliance.

Berwyn has been a member of teams and has led numerous environmental investigation and remediation projects involving impacts by a variety of organic and inorganic compounds. He has prepared or managed the preparation of work plans, site investigation reports, compliance audits, Phase I and Phase II environmental site assessments (ESAs), remedial action plans, groundwater monitoring reports, water quality and quantity studies, health and safety plans, technical evaluations, and ecological and human health risk assessments. Projects include environmental investigations and remediation at power plants, gasoline stations, industrial sites, former manufactured gas plants (MGPs), bulk chemical and petroleum storage facilities, shipyards, international airports, school sites, military facilities, metal plating, chemical facilities, and superfund sites.

Berwyn was co-founder and President of Data Validators, LLC, a third party data management service provider focused on environmental data quality. As a project manager at Data Validators, Berwyn has been involved in performing data quality assurance in various projects with the Los Angeles Unified School District and Santa Maria Unified School District, as well as numerous Department of Defense (DOD) site and confidential aerospace client sites. He has performed data validation for remediation projects, groundwater monitoring projects, and preliminary environmental assessments under the oversight of the Environmental Protection Agency.

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Banco de Oro (BDO)

Account Name: AGUILA GROUP COMPANIES (AGC) DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION

Account Number: (Peso) 00 222 800 0844

Bank Address: East Mansion Townhouse, Elisco Road, Sto Rosario, Pateros

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