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agreement the logistics service provider GLS picks
up the samples on a workday as stipulated by the
customer. As a rule the samples are delivered to the
Berghof Laboratory the day after they are collected.
On request the customer also receives sampling
vessels, dispatch boxes and labels for marking
the samples. The system is uncomplicated and is
processed with a minimum amount of bureaucracy
for the customer.
You will find more information on our homepage
at www.berghof.com > Analytics > sampling and
training.
Manuela Saller
analytik@berghof.com
Environmental Engineering
Analytical Quality Assurance
in Baden-Württemberg
(AQS)
By tradition the training course for samplers
takes place at the beginning of March every year
at Stuttgart University. In course units I to V the
sampling techniques in different compartments
was explained and demonstrated in practice.
Sampler training course III occupies itself with
taking samples of groundwater in polluted areas
and where there are harmful changes to the soil.
For many years Mr. Haaff from Berghof Analytics
+ Environmental Engineering has been a
mainstay of the teaching course in his capacity
as a teacher. His practical examples illustrate
the problems of sampling ground water on areas
suspected of being polluted and with the imponderability
of harmful substances which may
be present in phase and in the different ways of
conserving samples of the individual hazardous
substances etc. For generating “correct” analysis
values sampling is an essential prerequisite.
Faults during sampling are many times greater
than the analytical measured-value fluctuations
in the laboratory.
Another instructor in this year’s samplers’
training course III stressed that the university
is glad to take recourse to the experience of
Berghof in knowledge transfer. Mr. Söhlmann from
Berghof Analytics + Environmental Engineering
was invited to hold the introductory lecture on“.
The importance of groundwater investigations in
processing historical burdens”. Besides the general
legal conditions, the systematic processing
of historical burdens in Baden-Württemberg and
the differences between sampling the groundwater
network and historical burdens.
If they succeed in the examination the participants
receive a certificate.
Reiner Söhlmann
umweltengineering@berghof.com
Reiner Söhlmann is an
acknowledged expert in
Baden Württemberg in
compliance with § 18 German
Soil Protection Act.
Since Baden-Württemberg has meanwhile
also implemented the approval of experts in the
ordinance dated April 2011, based on his many
years working in the field of soil protection and
historical burdens, Mr. Reiner Söhlmann from
the Environmental Engineering business unit
decided to go through the accreditation proceedings.
Besides the formal application, appropriate
qualified expert reports must also be submitted
to the admissions office. If the expert reports are
acknowledged by the board of examiners, an oral
examination will take place.
Mr. Söhlmann sat this examination on
16.02.2012. He was given a warm welcome by
the Chairman, Prof. Jörg Menzel, as he was the
first candidate for the exam in Baden-Württemberg
at the State Institute for the Environment, Measurements
and Nature Conservation (LUBW). The
Reiner Söhlmann
board of examiners orally tests and assesses the
specialist knowledge an expert must have. After
the oral exam Mr. Söhlmann was congratulated on
passing and it was confirmed that the specifications
for an expert according to §18 had been met.
Written confirmation of his accreditation was
issued on 20.03.2012.
Mr. Söhlmann is now an expert in compliance
with §18 Federal German Soil Protection Act
(BBodSchG,) subject matter 2.2 “Hazard assessment
for the exposure pathway of soil-waters”.
Accreditation is limited to 5 years and can be
extended by providing evidence of attendance at
advance training sessions on the subject matter,
and by submitting experts’ reports. Publication
in the interstate research system for measuring
stations and experts (ReSyMeSa) took place on
20.03.2012.
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Reiner Söhlmann
umweltengineering@berghof.com
6 Berghof News 1/2012