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    GxP Training Redefined?

    To meet GxP training requirements, it’s important to understand the basics: what GxP means, how it relates to regulatory compliance, and how organizational change management can help you ensure your team receives adequate and consistent training.

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    Future Trends and Opportunities in Quality Assurance

    At a previous PDA/FDA Joint Regulatory Conference in Washington, D.C, Donna Gulbinski, quality and regulatory affairs expert, provided useful information about the future of quality management. She identified some key strategies for how your organization can identify and understand quality assurance trends and develop initiatives for long-term success.

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    February Tip: Continuous Employee Training Reduces Deviations and Nonconformances

    This blog post is part of an ongoing series to provide the latest tips from experts in the field to help readers keep up with changes in the quality and regulatory industry .

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  • Training Does Not Stand Alone: The Quest for Training Effectiveness Continues

    While training may appear to be straightforward to most leaders, the effectiveness follow up is anything but clear-cut. So why do business leaders frown when the answer to the training effectiveness question is – it depends?

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    GCP Compliance: Eliminating Silos between Clinical Quality and Clinical Operations

    In a classic episode of Seinfeld, George Costanza is terrified of the potential ramifications of his “worlds colliding” when his fiancée, Susan, becomes friendlier with his dubious pals Elaine, Kramer and Jerry. “Everybody knows you’ve got to keep your worlds apart,” George rants (but when does George not rant?) “If Susan is allowed to infiltrate this world then George Costanza as you know him ceases to exist. If Relationship George walks through this door, he will kill Independent George! A George divided against itself cannot stand!”

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    Retraining and Refresher Training: Aren’t They One in the Same?

    Ask an operations manager and he’ll acknowledge that what it’s called is less important than getting the “assignment” done and entered into the LMS. He’s usually more concerned about the loss of productivity during the training than the effectiveness of the training at that time. It isn’t until later when the training may have to be delivered again (repeated), that the comment “training doesn’t really work” is heard.

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  • Five Reasons Why TMF Training is Important

    Training is a vital component of workplace efficiency especially when it comes to one of the most important deliverables of a clinical trial – the Trial Master File (TMF). Perhaps that’s why, according to a recent article in Forbes magazine, U.S. companies spent over $70 billion on corporate training in 2014, an increase of 15% over the previous year. If you are lucky enough to oversee the TMF, you spend so much time bringing the right employees on board, it only makes sense you would understand the importance of providing them with the proper training to ensure your TMF is always inspection ready.

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  • Cleanroom Compliance: How to Address Common Challenges in Document Control

    A recent warning letter to a medical device firm shows the importance of proper documentation of cleanroom maintenance procedures and corresponding control of those documents. The FDA noted the company’s failure to establish and maintain written procedures for avoiding contamination of equipment, as well as the incongruity between some of its cleanroom procedures and records of actual practice (1).

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    Training Effectiveness – A Quality by Design Approach

    In the role of a consultant, you have the benefit of seeing what works well across your client base and their shared common pain points. Because of this perspective, I’m often invited onto a project to provide guidance on best practices and practical advice on how to avoid the common pain points.

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  • Data Integrity Starts With User Access

    In my next few blog posts, we'll be covering user access and how it can impact data integrity. For starters, let's explore the Principle of Least Privilege. What is it?  What happens when it's violated? Finally we'll map out five actions you can take to protect your company.

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    Retraining Employees: When Once is Not Enough

    Most supervisors would agree that their staff wants to do a good job and that their employees do their best to meet the demands of the highly regulated blood bank industry. But occasionally management has to deal with employee performance that falls short of expectations.

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