As Senior Vice President and Laboratory Manager, Ms. Slavin is responsible for and directs all laboratory operations and activities. She maintains all records for laboratory operations, including reports, billing and purchasing. She is responsible for all contract administration and serves as liaison between lab and client. She directs over 50 scientists and technicians, and manages the programs necessary to conduct the organic, inorganic and bacteriological services of the laboratory. She also reviews and supervises the methods, protocols and guidelines for sample collection and analysis based upon USEPA and state contract requirements and chain-of-custody procedures.
Ms. Slavins' responsibilities include the day to day management of laboratory procedures and reporting of results. Her duties include the monitoring of performance standard in QC and QA, monitoring the validity of the analysis performed in the laboratory and the data generated to assure reliable results and to provide technical guidance and educational direction to the laboratory staff.
Ms. Slavin is currently the Vice Chair of the New York Association of Approved Environmental Laboratories (NYAAEL) and a member of the Technical Affairs Committee which meets with state agencies such as NYS Department of Health Environmental Laboratory Approval Program (ELAP) and NYSDEC to provide technical guidance on regulatory issues that impact the environmental testing industry.
As the Laboratory's safety officer, OSHA representative and trained toxicologist, Ms. Slavin supervises all aspects of occupational safety and health programs. She has designed safety protocols for the safe handling and disposal of hazardous materials. She has completed the OSHA 40 hour hazardous materials training course and maintains the certification with yearly eight hour refresher training.
Ms. Slavin attended a course on the interpretation of mass spectra at the Finnigan Institute. She reviews the identifications of non-targeted components in the GC/MS Laboratory. She also attended a course in Denver, Colorado on the compliance criteria for inorganic and organic USEPA CLP data packages. She also attended two USEPA-sponsored seminars/symposia discussing CLP and associated criteria and a training course in Total Quality Management (TQM).
Prior experience includes QA Manager of the laboratory, GC/MS supervisor for volatile and semi-volatile organics; analysis of pesticides, PCBs, herbicides, volatiles and semi-volatile organics by GC and priority pollutant and HSL by GC/MS; semi-volatile, pesticides and herbicide sample preparation and clean-up procedures.
