"This manual has been written to provide national standards and uniformity in environmental sampling for samplers including enforcement officers, other public officers and lay samplers. Although some specific warnings on hazards involved in sampling procedures are included in this manual, inspectors should also familiarize themselves with The Inspector's Safety Guide and the task hazard analysis (THA's) for specific tasks related to inspection work."--page 4, Introduction.

Includes bibliographical references.

Introduction -- Acknowledgement -- Liability and limitations -- Introduction -- Preparation -- Information sources -- Consultation -- Laboratory certification -- Legal or routine -- Planning documentation -- Sampling plan documentation -- Documenting sampling protocols -- Site selection and documentation -- Site selection -- Sampling approaches -- Control site selection -- Methods for fixing position -- Site documentation and notebook -- Photographic documentation -- Container labels -- Legal sampling -- Conducting legal sampling -- Continuity/chain-of-custody documentation -- Equipment and quality issues -- Planning equipment and container needs -- Equipment for legal samples -- Data quality -- Quality assurance and quality control (QA/QC) -- Field QC samples -- Additional QC samples -- Sources of contamination -- Cleaning field equipment -- Cleaning containers -- Safety considerations.