Where does GMP Training end and HR training begin?

That pharmaceutical companies need to hire professionals with the requisite qualifications is beyond question. This is not only required for the smooth conduct of activities in their course of their day-to-day work, but also because the FDA has set out its requirements for the proper educational and skill set qualification of employees in this profession in 21 CFR 211.25(a).

This FDA section underlines the need for educational qualifications, training and experience to carry out their job functions, which cannot be carried out in the absence of these requirements. The consequences of having ill qualified and ill-equipped staff can be of a grave nature. This scenario calls for a thorough look at the way pharmaceutical companies select and train their staff engaged in their work that must incorporate Good Manufacturing Practices (GMPs), while also maintaining quality, which is of paramount importance in this industry, all within the ambit of the organizational culture.

Challenging questions relating to training requirements

Meeting the educational and training requirements for pharmaceutical professions in a GMP environment, while complying with the provisions of 21 CFR 211.25(a) can be quite a challenge for the pharmaceutical companies’ HR. HR training should align with the requirements set out by Quality Assurance. There must be consistency and alignment of the priorities and need of the stakeholders in these two crucial departments.

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HR could be in a predicament about what kind of training to impart to consultants, a practice that is quite prevalent in this industry. Are they to be trained the way regular staff is, or do they have a different set of training requirements? Another practice that abounds in this industry is transferred employees. What about the training for such employees?

Get to understand the elements of onboarding in a GMP environment

A webinar from MentorHealth, a leading provider of professional trainings for healthcare professionals, will be setting doubts relating to all these core areas at rest at a webinar that it is organizing. The speaker at this webinar is Michael Esposito, who has over 30 years of experience in the pharmaceutical industry, during which he has world in a variety of areas including packaging, project administration, Quality Assurance, Government Contracts, translations, systems training, and international operations in many reputable companies such as Wyeth Pharmaceuticals, Pfizer and Johnson & Johnson’s McNeil Consumer Healthcare Division. Michael has more than 17 years’ experience in GMP training and document management.

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Familiarization with the onboarding strategy

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The essence of this webinar is familiarization with the onboarding strategy needed for professionals in the pharma industry. Michael will help participants understand how to put in place an onboarding strategy that combines the inputs of all the major stakeholders and put in place a consistent and comprehensible onboarding and training process that the organization can adapt for its employees.

Participants at this webinar will be able to define the onboarding process in the context of compliance. Michael will help them understand how to interact with HR to create a coordinated onboarding strategy. They will be able to implement a training program that takes into account the differences between the training requirements for full-time employees and contractors, and between new employees and employees transferring internally. They will also be able to prioritize training, so that they not only ensure compliance; they also reduce the learning curve for new or transferred employees.

This session is of value to professionals such as Managers with direct reports, HR professionals, and Quality Assurance and training departments. Michael will cover the following areas at this webinar: