Prepare Your Labs to Meet the Challenge

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Increasing demands and fewer resources

Environmental and plant chemistry laboratories have a vital role to play in utility operation and regulatory compliance. Environmental requirements and the need to keep plant operating costs down have increased the pressure to address problems with discharges and plant chemistry. Quality and accuracy has become more important than ever. At the same time, utility downsizing has caused a tremendous loss of professional expertise and personnel in environmental and plant chemistry labs.

Improved compliance

Improved lab procedures, including self-auditing and focused training, permit a higher degree of certainty about compliance with environmental regulation and ensure that plant chemistry is being optimized. This allows utilities to support their position with regulatory agencies and avoid potential fines and unforeseen costs that may arise from improper procedures or poor information.

Superior service

Our capabilities in lab QA programs and procedures stem from the management of our own lab assets, and from decades of experience providing outstanding lab services. Our services and standards are kept up-to-the-minute through the involvement of our professional staff in leading standards organizations and associations. Most lab certification standards are built around ISO17025 procedures including U.S. EPA’s NELAC standards, on which our own programs are based. Services include:

• Review of existing quality procedures, documentation, capabilities, objectives and certification requirements
• Assessment of staff capability
• Identification of gaps and needs
• Development of plans to meet needs and fill gaps to meet desired levels of certification
• Administration and technical support to attain and maintain desired certifications for labs

Proven experience

Kinectrics has undertaken numerous quality assessment and laboratory review projects and manages inter-laboratory test programs for analyses and concentrations specific to station labs for several Nuclear and Fossil Utility Station Laboratories.

Kinectrics is accredited under ISO Guide 17025 and registered to ISO 9001.

For more information, contact

Husain Mehdi, 416.207.6000 x6987, husain.mehdi@kinectrics.com

or Otto Herrmann, 416.206.6000, x6262, otto.herrmann@kinectrics.com