Minn. R. 4740.2099 - DOCUMENTATION OF LABORATORY PERSONNEL TRAINING
A. The laboratory must maintain current job
descriptions for all personnel who manage, perform, or verify work affecting
the quality of the environmental tests.
B. The laboratory must maintain a current
table of organization showing relationships between all job classifications and
responsible lines of authority associated with the procurement, analysis,
reporting, and disposal of samples.
C. The laboratory's managing agents and
owners must ensure that all laboratory staff have demonstrated capability in
the activities for which they are responsible. Such demonstration must be
documented. For new laboratory personnel, the demonstration of capability must
be performed prior to their analysis of any sample for that field of testing.
Failure to maintain records that demonstrate the capability of laboratory staff
as required in this part is grounds for suspension of certification under part
4740.2050, subpart 9. In the absence of method requirements, an analyst must
analyze four reagent blanks spiked at the concentration of the calibration
check standard. The recoveries must meet the criteria in the laboratory's
quality assurance manual.
D. Data
produced by analysts while in the process of obtaining required training are
acceptable only when reviewed and validated by an analyst or supervisor trained
in such evaluations and assessments.
E. The laboratory's managing agents and
owners must ensure that laboratory staff maintain capability to perform job
functions by:
(1) providing evidence that
demonstrates that each employee has read, understood, and is using the approved
revision of the laboratory's quality assurance manual;
(2) ensuring that attendance at training
courses or workshops for specific equipment, analytical techniques, or
laboratory procedures is documented;
(3) maintaining documentation of continued
proficiency per analyst by at least one of the following once per year:
(a) acceptable results for a proficiency
testing sample or other sample prepared in-house for which the concentrations
of analyte are unknown to the analyst at the time of testing;
(b) another demonstration of capability as
described in item C;
(c) at least
four consecutive laboratory control samples with acceptable levels of precision
and accuracy; or
(d) for
bacteriological tests, analysis of authentic samples with results statistically
indistinguishable from those obtained by another trained analyst;
(4) ensuring that training files
contain evidence that laboratory staff have read, understood, and agreed to
perform the analysis using the approved revision of the laboratory's
procedures; and
(5) providing
adequate supervision for all laboratory activities associated with the
procurement, analysis, reporting, and disposal of samples for environmental
testing from the time of collection to disposal.
F. The laboratory must maintain initials and
signatures of anyone analyzing or reviewing data so that the records can be
traced back to an individual approving the data.
Notes
Statutory Authority: MS s 144.97; 144.98
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