Specifications include, but are not limited to: The contractor will provide accurate, cost effective, and timely laboratory analyses of samples collected during Utah Occupational Safety and Health (UOSH) compliance inspections. The contractor will provide all supplies necessary for the proper collection and submission of samples for testing and for assuring defensibility of the results obtained. The contractor agrees to provide analysis and sample results in a timely manner to UOSH, on occasion within 24 hours. The contractor will track all samples with a Chain of Custody control form. The form will include all necessary information, e.g., name of recipient, time date, department, etc. The contractor will ensure that all testing is tied to the chain of custody form and tracked according to industry standards. Although expected to be rare, the contractor will have technical and support staff available for phone consultation regarding any results, test explanations, or general opinion, during normal business hours at no additional cost. Blank samples submitted to the contractor will incur no charge. Sample Analysis Results: The contractor will email results to the designated UOSH Compliance Officer, UOSH Compliance Supervisor and UOSH Financial staff on the day the test results are received from the lab. Results will indicate the amount of substance(s) per tube, if appropriate, cassette, or other collection medium. The results must be in the usual OSHA format of parts per million (ppm), if appropriate; milligrams or micrograms (mg/m3 or ug/m3), as appropriate, per cubic meter; etc. On rare occasions, the results may be disputed. Therefore, the contractor will ensure legal defensibility of the results obtained and will provide expert court testimony when called upon by the court system, at no additional cost. It is expected that in these rare cases either notarized affidavits or telephone testimony will be needed. The laboratory–derived Sampling and Analytical Errors (SAE’s) must be included with all results.
