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Corporate Overview Analytical Services Program

Corporate Overview Analytical Services Program. George E. Detsis Manager, Analytical Services Program Office of Health, Safety and Security Corporate Safety Programs, HS-23 ASP 2012 Workshop Idaho Falls, Idaho September 17-20, 2012. Programmatic Mission.

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Corporate Overview Analytical Services Program

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  1. Corporate Overview Analytical Services Program George E. Detsis Manager, Analytical Services Program Office of Health, Safety and Security Corporate Safety Programs, HS-23 ASP 2012 Workshop Idaho Falls, Idaho September 17-20, 2012

  2. Programmatic Mission • Reduce DOE’s risks and liabilities • Foster performance improvements • reduce environmental data uncertainty • ensure accountability/proper radiological and hazardous waste disposition

  3. DOCAP OVERVIEW • DOECAP DOES NOT certify, accredit nor provide approval • Consolidated audits provide information to DOE program line/field managers who hold contractual agreements for laboratory and waste vendor services

  4. FY 2012 Consolidated Audits

  5. ASP/DOECAP Managers Roles & Responsibilities • Ensure Program quality and consistency • extent of condition • Provide Program implementation direction/guidance • Provide Corporate oversight • Audit reports/corrective action plans are Departmental Corporate documents

  6. So What Did We Learn?TSDF • Reductions in waste inventories due to fewer field project activities • Waste generators improvement needs: • waste characterization • packaging and transportation compliance • ensure waste acceptance criteria are understood/complied • Discrepancies in DOE contract language regarding NOV notification

  7. So What Did We Learn?Laboratories • Continuing SOP conformance issues • Employee chemical exposure monitoring/documentation • Employee training completion/documentation • Daily instrumentation calibration checks/ documentation

  8. Opportunities for Auditor Improvement • Audit preparation • Review DOE site contractual agreement provisions with commercial vendor • Audit scope expansion by discipline • review historical DOECAP findings/observations for possible trends/patterns

  9. Lead Auditor Improvement Opportunities • Team leaders need to encourage auditors to: • Review previous DOECAP report(s), CAP(s), QA Plan, Waste Management Plan, pertinent SOPs, other documents • Provide evening debriefs based on facts • No recommendations for fixes • Provide guidance for substantive cross-cut reviews • supporting evidence for findings • consistency in report write-ups • not just editorial of your own write-up

  10. MAPEP Overview • Test and evaluate environmental laboratory performance through specific analytes/matrices • Semi-annual testing • Radionuclides, inorganic metals and organics in water, soil, vegetation and air filter matrices • Only DOE reference laboratory • International Certifications • ISO 17025 - Competency of testing and calibration • ISO 17043 - PT provider • ISO Guide 34 - Certified reference materials producing laboratory

  11. MAPEP Laboratory Participation

  12. MAPEP Overview Participation improves laboratories performance

  13. MAPEP Overview DOE identified Iodine-129 testing in waters important for laboratories’ analytical performance • Important long lived isotope to monitor • Highly mobile in groundwater • Health hazard – concentrates in thyroid • No other PT program includes testing for I-129 First testing session 25 shows laboratories relatively poor performance with improved performance in test session 26

  14. PT Initiatives and Trends • “Export control” domestic laboratory participation • U-226/U-238 pipe scaling RMCC laboratories • 5 laboratories responded to inquiry • Issues Reporting Results at or near the Detection Limit • Co-60 reporting • 53 acceptable/24 not acceptable (31% not acceptable) • Reporting Depleted Uranium vs. Natural Uranium • Series 25 - natural uranium, 1 lab. unacceptable/Series 26 – depleted uranium, 5 labs. Unacceptable

  15. SPADAT Visual Sample Planning Overview • Improves quality of field and facility sampling strategies • linkage to data quality objectives • Minimizes number of samples (cost effective) • Reduces data uncertainty

  16. VSP FY2012 Projects • Spatial Plume/contamination mapping capabilities • Piles and subsurface volume 3-D sampling • Training at Portsmouth/Paducah

  17. Program Initiatives • Federal Agency Partnering -- DOE/DOD quality systems manual • DOECAP laboratories supporting Japan’s Fukushima Environmental Monitoring • Continual improvements in field data query information to identify DOE contract holders/volume of use • Inputs into development of National Consensus Standard Accreditation provisions • radiochemistry, PT, auditing practices/procedures, LOD/LOQ, causal effects, etc.

  18. ASP Program Contact Information George E. Detsis, Analytical Services Program (ASP) Manager -- HQ Phone: (301) 903-1488 E-mail:  George.Detsis@hq.doe.gov Jorge Ferrer - DOECAP Manager, DOE -- Oak Ridge Phone: (865) 576-6638 E-mail:  ferrerja@oro.doe.gov Guy Marlette, MAPEP Coordinator, DOE -- Idaho Phone: (208) 526-2532 E-mail: marletgm@id.doe.gov Brent Pulsipher, VSP Coordinator, PNNL -- Hanford Phone: (509) 375-3989 E-mail: Brent.Pulsipher@pnl.gov

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