When You Cannot Travel to Conduct a Required TNI Audit, What Are Your Options?

Oral Presentation

Prepared by S. Nagourney, B. Wilk, M. Hackman
New Jersey DEP (Retired), 401 East State Street, Trenton, NJ, 08625

Contact Information: stu.nagourney@dep.state.nj.us; 609-292-4945


ABSTRACT

What do you do when you cannot travel to conduct required TNI audits of laboratories that do more than $1M of analytical work annually for your State?

The New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection, Office of Quality Assurance faces just such a dilemma regarding two laboratories located in Mississaugua, Ontario Canada that have primary TNI certification with our accrediting authority. This talk will describe how technology can be employed to perform audits remotely when administrative obstacles prevent traditional operations.

The talk will include excerpts from a “mock” remote audit.