1.1 本规程规定了从事土壤和岩石测试和检验的机构的最低资质。规定了现场和实验室人员的最低要求。该做法还包括建立和维护质量体系。 1.2 为评估机构在土壤和岩石上正确进行指定测试的能力，以及建立与机构的组织、人员、设施和质量体系有关的基本特征提供了标准。这一做法可以通过针对特定项目的更具体的标准和要求加以补充。 1.3 本规程可作为评估测试和检验机构或两者的依据，并用于对从事工程设计和施工中土壤和岩石测试和检验的公共或私营测试或检验机构进行资格认证或认可，或两者兼而有之。 1.4 为了获得本标准的认证资格，机构必须在其认证证书中至少包括D18委员会管辖范围内标准中与测试方法、检查方法或两者相关的五项标准。 1.5 本规程适用于所有标准，其中包括对规程的参考 D3740 。 1.6 本标准的文本引用了提供解释性材料的注释和脚注。这些注释和脚注（不包括表和图中的注释和脚注）不应被视为本标准的要求。 1.7 本标准并不旨在解决与其使用相关的所有安全问题（如有）。本标准的使用者有责任在使用前制定适当的安全、健康和环境实践，并确定监管限制的适用性。 1.8 此实践提供了一套用于执行一个或多个特定操作的说明。本文件不能取代教育或经验，应与专业判断结合使用。并非此做法的所有方面都适用于所有情况。本ASTM标准并不代表或取代必须判断给定专业服务是否充分的护理标准，也不应在不考虑项目许多独特方面的情况下应用本文件。本文件标题中的“标准”一词仅表示该文件已通过ASTM共识程序批准。 1.9 本国际标准是根据世界贸易组织技术性贸易壁垒委员会发布的《关于制定国际标准、指南和建议的原则的决定》中确立的国际公认的标准化原则制定的。 ====意义和用途====== 4.1 本规程提供了用于评估土壤和岩石测试或检验机构（或两者兼有）资质的基本最低标准。可以通过更具体的标准和要求来补充这些标准。 个人用户也可以使用它来判断机构的资格。使用本标准不需要有正式的认证机构，如联邦、州或独立机构。 注1: 本规程的用户应意识到，这些要求中的某些要求可能无法实现和/或不适用于在美利坚合众国（U.S.A.）以外执行的工作。在这种情况下，用户应确保对这些要求进行所有必要的修改，以使其适用于每种特定情况。 4.2 这种做法的目的是为评估测试或检验机构（或两者）客观、胜任地提供用户所需特定服务的能力提供共识基础。 4.3 这一做法可作为认证的依据。 4.4 认证机构的用户必须审查该机构的认证范围，以确保该机构已获得执行用户要求的任务的技术能力认证。

1.1 This practice establishes minimum qualifications for agencies engaged in the testing and inspection of soil and rock. Minimum requirements for field and laboratory personnel are defined. The practice also covers the establishment and maintenance of a quality system. 1.2 Criteria are provided for evaluating the capability of an agency to properly perform designated tests on soil and rock, and for establishing essential characteristics pertaining to an agency's organization, personnel, facilities, and quality system. This practice may be supplemented by more specific criteria and requirements for particular projects. 1.3 This practice can be used as a basis to evaluate testing and inspection agencies, or both, and is intended for use for the qualifying or accrediting, or both, of testing or inspection agencies, public or private, engaged in the testing and inspection of soil and rock as used in engineering design and construction. 1.4 To qualify for accreditation to this standard, the agency must include at least five standards relating to testing methods, inspection methods, or both, from the standards covered under the jurisdictions of Committee D18, in its certificate of accreditation. 1.5 This practice is applicable to all standards which include a reference to Practice D3740 . 1.6 The text of this standard references notes and footnotes that provide explanatory material. These notes and footnotes (excluding those in tables and figures) shall not be considered as requirements of the standard. 1.7 This standard does not purport to address all of the safety concerns, if any, associated with its use. It is the responsibility of the user of this standard to establish appropriate safety, health, and environmental practices and determine the applicability of regulatory limitations prior to use. 1.8 This practice offers a set of instructions for performing one or more specific operations. This document cannot replace education or experience and should be used in conjunction with professional judgment. Not all aspects of this practice may be applicable in all circumstances. This ASTM standard is not intended to represent or replace the standard of care by which the adequacy of a given professional service must be judged, nor should this document be applied without consideration of a project's many unique aspects. The word “Standard” in the title of this document means only that the document has been approved through the ASTM consensus process. 1.9 This international standard was developed in accordance with internationally recognized principles on standardization established in the Decision on Principles for the Development of International Standards, Guides and Recommendations issued by the World Trade Organization Technical Barriers to Trade (TBT) Committee. ====== Significance And Use ====== 4.1 This practice provides the basic minimum criteria for use in evaluating the qualifications of a testing or inspection agency, or both, for soil and rock. The criteria may be supplemented by more specific criteria and requirements. An individual user can also use it to judge the qualification of an agency. The existence of a formal accrediting body such as a federal, state, or independent agency is not necessary for the use of this standard. Note 1: Users of this practice should be aware that certain of these requirements may not be achievable and/or applicable to work performed outside of the United States of America (U.S.A.). In such cases, users should make sure that all necessary modifications are made to these requirements such as to render them appropriate to each specific set of circumstances. 4.2 The intent of this practice is to provide a consensus basis for evaluating a testing or inspection agency, or both, with respect to that agency's capability to objectively and competently provide the specific services needed by the user. 4.3 This practice may be used as a basis for accreditation. 4.4 The users of an accredited agency must review the agency's scope of accreditation to make sure the agency has been accredited for its technical competence to perform the tasks requested by the user.