tailieunhanh - Guidance on Technica Audits and Related Assessments for Environmental Data Operations EPA QA/G-7

The IS audit manual is the main foundation and an instruction manual for the IS audit. Since it regulates, among other things, the rights and duties of the persons participating in the IS audit as well as the rights to view information and documents granted to the IS audit team, the personnel representative should be included in the process before it is adopted by the management. Based on the IS audit manual, the IS audits planned are performed by an internal or external IS audit team (see section ), and the audits are supervised by the person responsible for IS audits. | United States Environmental Protection Agency Office of Environmental Information Washington DC 20460 EPA 600 R-99 080 January 2000 ẴEPA Guidance on Technical Audits and Related Assessments for Environmental Data Operations EPA QA G-7 Final FOREWORD The . Environmental Protection Agency EPA has developed several types of technical audits and related assessments as important tools for the systematic and objective examination of a project to determine whether environmental data collection activities and related results comply with the project s quality assurance project plan are implemented effectively and are suitable to achieve data quality goals. The mandatory Agency-wide Quality System requires that all organizations performing work for EPA develop and operate management processes and structures for ensuring that data or information collected are of the needed and expected quality for their desired use. Technical audits and related assessments are an integral part of the fundamental principles of quality management that form the foundation of the Agency s Quality System. This document is one of the . Environmental Protection Agency Quality System Series requirements and guidance documents. These documents describe the EPA policies and procedures for planning implementing and assessing the effectiveness of the Quality System. Questions regarding this document or other Quality System Series documents may be obtained from the Quality Staff . EPA Quality Staff 2811R Office of Environmental Information Ariel Rios Building 1200 Pennsylvania Avenue NW Washington DC 20460 Phone 202 564-6830 Fax 202 565-2441 email quality@ Copies of the EPA Quality System Series may be obtained from the Quality Staff or by downloading them from the Quality Staff Home Page quality EPA QA G-7 i Final January .