Quality Assurance

{
  "id": "MLC-T-ENV-022873",
  "term": "Quality Assurance",
  "field": "Environment",
  "definition": "1. Documentation designed to assure that proper sampling and/or analysis protocol are being followed.\n\n2. QA is a system of management activities that ensure that a process, item, or service is of the type and quality needed by the user. QA deals with setting policy and implementing an administrative system of management controls that cover planning, implementation, and review of data collection activities. QA is an important element of a quality system that ensures that all research design and performance, environmental monitoring and sampling, and other technical and reporting activities conducted by EPA are of the highest possible quality.\n\n3. An integrated system of management activities involving planning, implementation, documentation, assessment, reporting and quality improvement to ensure that a process, item or service is of the type and quality needed and expected by the customer.\n\n4. A complete program designed to produce results which are valid, scientifically defensible, and of known precision, bias, and accuracy. Includes planning, documentation, and quality control activities.\n\n5. An integrated system of management activities involving planning, implementation, assessment, reporting, and quality improvement to ensure that a process, item, or service is of the type and quality needed and expected by the customer.\n\n6. The total integrated program for assuring the reliability of monitoring and measurement data.\n\n7. The process of determining the accuracy and quality of emissions data.\n\n8. \"An integrated system of activities involving planning, quality control, quality assessment, reporting and quality improvement to ensure that a product or service meets defined standards of quality with a stated level of confidence\" (QAMS 1993, 7).\n\n9. In EMAP, quality assurance consists of multiple steps taken to ensure that all data quality objectives are achieved\n\n10. An integrated system of activities involving planning, quality control, quality assessment, reporting and quality improvement to ensure that a product or service meets defined standards of quality with a stated level of confidence.\n\n11. Quality Assurance/Quality Control: A system of procedures, checks, audits, and corrective actions to ensure that all EPA research design and performance, environmental monitoring and sampling, and other technical and reporting activities are of the highest achievable quality.\n\n12. An integrated system of management activities involving planning, implementation, documentation, assessment, reporting, and quality improvement to ensure that a process, item, or service is of the type and quality needed and expected by the client. {OW/EAD} {OPP} {OW/TSC} {OAR/OAQPS} {OECA} {ORCR}\n\n13. System of procedures, checks, audits, and corrective actions to ensure that all EPA research design and performance, environmental monitoring and sampling, and other technical and reporting activities are of the highest achievable quality. [EPA 2005b, RAIS 2004]\n\n14. Those planned and systematic actions necessary to provide adequate confidence that the disposal system will comply with the disposal regulations set forth in part 191 of this chapter. Quality assurance includes quality control, which comprises those actions related to the physical characteristics of a material, structure, component, or system that provide a means to control the quality of the material, structure, component,or system to predetermined requirements.\n\n15. An integrated system of activities involving planning, quality control, quality assessment, reporting and quality improvement to ensure that a product or service meets defined standards of quality with a stated level of confidence. [EPA 2004]\n\n16. A system of procedures, checks, audits and corrective actions to ensure that all technical, operational, monitoring and reporting activities are of the highest achievable quality.\n\n17. An integrated system of management activities involving planning, implementation, documentation, assessment, reporting, and quality improvement to ensure that a process, item, or service is of the type and quality needed and expected by the client.\n\n18. Integrated system of activities involving planning, quality control, quality assessment, reporting, and quality improvement to ensure that a product or service meets defined standards of quality with a stated level of confidence. [QA Glossary]\n\n19. Integrated system of management activities involving planning, implementation, documentation, assessment, reporting, and quality improvement to ensure that a process, item, or service is of the type and quality needed and expected by the customer. Quality Assurance is typically applied by managers or technical personnel assigned to a specific oversight role. Example Quality Assurance activities include technical and management assessments of field and analytical operations.\n\n20. Management of an integrated system of activities involving planning, implementation, documentation, assessment, reporting, and quality improvement to ensure that a process, item, or service is of the type and quality needed and expected by the organization.\n\n21. The management of an integrated system of activities involving planning, implementation, documentation, assessment, reporting, and quality improvement to ensure that a process, item, or service is of the type and quality needed and expected by the organization.",
  "abbreviation": "QA",
  "subject": "Policy and guidance",
  "references": [
    "Underground Storage Tank Sites Guide Glossary",
    "Waste and Cleanup Risk Assessment Glossary",
    "Chesapeake Bay Glossary; Great Lakes: Quality Management Training - Data Review Glossary; Great Lakes: Quality Management Training - Quality Glossary; Glossary: Study of the Potential Impacts of Hydraulic Fracturing on Drinking Water Resources; EPA Study of the Potential Impacts of Hydraulic Fracturing on Drinking Water Resources: Progress Report at http://www.epa.gov/hfstudy/pdfs/hf-report20121214.pdf",
    "Radon Glossary of Terms",
    "Guidance for Quality Assurance Project Plans",
    "Great Lakes Quality Mgmt Plan Glossary",
    "Emissions Inventory System Glossary",
    "Environmental Modeling and Assessment Program (EMAP) Master Glossary",
    "EPA 2004; QA Glossary",
    "EPA 2005b, RAIS 2004",
    "Forum on Environmental Measurements (FEM) Glossary",
    "Thesaurus of Terms Used in Microbial Risk Assessment",
    "40 CFR 194.2 (CFR 2018)",
    "Environmental Issues Glossary",
    "Environmental Sampling and Analytical Methods (ESAM) Program Glossary",
    "EPA Quality Manual 5360",
    "Environmental Information Quality Procedure Glossary",
    "EPA 2025 Scientific Integrity Policy"
  ],
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/environment/quality-assurance/"
}