The document presents policies, goals, and an organizational structure for the implementation of a management policy for the Quality Assurance program in the Health Effects Research Laboratory, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina. Directed toward functional managers, a system for quality assurance monitoring of task quality control functions is described. General areas affecting data quality are discussed from the perspective of the manager as a reviewer of documents or plans. The quality assurance organization, consisting of a Quality Assurance Coordinator and a Quality Assurance Committee, serves in an advisory capacity to taskmasters as well as to regular functional management. Within this structure, the application of quality assurance measures is the responsibility of taskmasters or project officers. It is the responsibility of functional management to ensure that all project-oriented documents or plans have incorporated appropriate quality assurance procedures.

Performing Organization: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Research and Development, Criteria and Special Studies Office, HERL--Technical report data sheet. "June 1977." "This Manual Valid Through Fiscal Year 1978." Includes bibliographical references (pages 23-24). "EPA-600/1-77-036."

This document presents policies, goals, and an organizational structre for the implementation of a management policy for the Quality Assurance program in the Health Effects Research Laboratory, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina. Directed towards functional managers, a system for quality assurance monitoring of task quality control functions is described. General areas affecting data quality are discussed from the perspective of the manager as a reviewer of documents or plans. The quality assurance organization, consisting of a Quality Assurance Coordinator and a Quality Assurance Committee, serves in an advisory capactiy to taskmasters as well as to regular functional management. Within this structure, the application of quality assurance measures is the responsibility of taskmasters or project officers. It is the responsibility of functional management to ensure that all project-oriented documents or plans have incorporated appropriate quality assurance procedures.