Onboarding in a GMP Environment: Best Practices for Foundational Employee Success

Why Should You Attend:

This onboarding course is geared toward the pharmaceutical industry, particularly for anyone who is responsible for managing or delivering training in a GMP environment, and HR employees who interact frequently with the GMP training organization to coordinate onboarding. The aim of the course is to provide practical information, which has already been used on the job effectively, and suggest similar actions that learners can apply to their job situations quickly.

Learning Objectives:

The objective of the course is to enable attendees to:

• Define the onboarding process in the context of regulatory compliance
• Interact with Human Resources to create a coordinated onboarding strategy that covers both their requirements and quality requirements
• Differentiate the training requirements for full-time employees and contractors, and articulate the rationale behind treating these individuals the same or differently in a given situation
• Distinguish training requirements for new employees vs. employees transferring internally
• Prioritize training items to insure compliance
• Reduce the learning curve for new or transferred employees

In addition, the course addresses the following commonly asked questions regarding the onboarding process:

• Are contractors treated the same as long-term employees?
• Where does GMP training end and HR training begin?
• When can employees begin working?
• How differently should new and transferred employees be treated in the onboarding process?

Areas Covered in the Webinar:

• FAQs for employee onboarding
• Management’s expectations for new employees
• HR onboarding
• Quality’s role in the onboarding process
• GMP training requirements
• Handling full-time employees vs. contractors and other temporary personnel
• Benchmarks for training and competency

Who Will Benefit:

This course will be of benefit to anyone who is responsible for onboarding new or transferred pharmaceutical employees, including:

• Pharmaceutical managers with direct reports; Human Resources professionals, especially those that train new employees or supervise HR trainers; Trainer, Training Manager (particularly in the Quality organization)