Training and Development in The Life Sciences - Build Training That Works

Why Should You Attend:

Writing effective Standard Operating Procedures and Work Instructions and developing training to support those documents is not intuitive, it is not a skill that is often taught in our universities, and it can be a difficult and cumbersome task to execute. Knowing the most effective and efficient processes for gathering, organizing, and writing technical documentation is absolutely critical to providing significant value to a dreaded, avoided, and seemingly unimportant work task.

This webinar will also explore the area of training in regulated environments, its importance, and its relationship to compliance documentation. Training is one of the most underrated and least respected of all the disciplines found within modern manufacturing within regulated industries – foods, cosmetics, beverages, medical devices, pharmaceuticals, biologics, etc. Yet, training is equally as important as any compliance discipline. The major problem today is how training is applied, how training is administered, and how training is managed within the modern regulated industry. We will look at Best-in-Class applications of training and how training can significantly contribute to not only world-class compliance but improved operational performance, improved quality, and improved employee/associate safety. And how together, effective documentation and training can significantly improve your operations.

Areas Covered in the Webinar:

• Global regulatory requirements for compliance documentation and training
• The relationship between compliance documentation and training
• Read and understand versus demonstrated competence
• Elements of a compliant documentation and training system
• How to conduct a compliance documentation and training analysis
• Compliance documentation and training as the basis for world-class operational control and performance improvement

Who Will Benefit:

Anyone having responsibility for training and compliance documentation in regulated environments – trainers, training developers, documentation specialists, internal auditors, quality assurance personnel, and managers of training, quality and regulatory functions

Charles H Paul
President, C H Paul Consulting Inc

Charles H. Paul is the President of C. H. Paul Consulting, Inc. – a regulatory, training, and technical documentation consulting firm. Charles is a management consultant, instructional designer and regulatory consultant and has led C. H. Paul Consulting, Inc. since its inception over 25 years ago. He regularly consults with Fortune 500 pharmaceutical, medical device, and biotechnology firms assisting them in achieving human resource, regulatory, and operational excellence. He is a regular presenter of webinars and on-site seminars in a variety of related subjects from documentation development to establishing compliant preventive maintenance systems. The firm works globally completing projects throughout the EU, UK, South America, and Asia.

Topic Background:

Training and documentation within the Life Sciences are inextricably linked together into an integrated system that combines “Best Practices,” regulatory compliance, principles of human performance, and adult learning to achieve the most favorable outcome of superior worker performance and the achievement of compliance excellence.

Training is the process by which individuals acquire skill and knowledge. There are a variety of approaches and techniques that should be applied to specific situations to achieve maximum effectiveness. Uninitiated training personnel often apply training techniques that are totally inappropriate for the situations for which they are utilized resulting in very ineffective training. Read and Understand is a technique that is and has been extremely abused in the training field within regulated industries for many years because it is cheap and requires the minimum expenditure of the organization’s resources. The problem with this approach is that it is totally inappropriate for the majority of situations in which it is applied. From a regulatory standpoint this is extremely important to know because ineffective training within regulated industries equals a potential for compliance deficiencies.

Regulatory compliance documentation on the other hand, is the process by which key critical tasks are or should be documented within our Life Sciences businesses. What is Regulatory Documentation and what role does it play in this process?

Compliance documentation to include Standard Operating Procedures – the documentation required by regulation – is essential to the effective and compliant running of any regulated business. Unfortunately, many individuals in those businesses miss the valuable opportunities that properly developed Standard Operating Procedures/Work Instructions can provide. Regulated documentation can serve a variety of purposes other than meeting a regulatory requirement – as training materials, to standardize operations, to manage individual and group performance, to identify the sources of deviations, etc. The key is to knowing how to write those documents to properly meet those needs. In addition, the significant relationship between compliance documentation and training has not escaped regulatory scrutiny. When regulators look at documentation they also look at training in terms of the individuals to which the documentation applies and vice versa.

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