Onboarding Employees in a GMP Environment: Best Practices for Foundational Employee Success
Learn to build a compliant GMP onboarding program that coordinates HR and quality, sets training for employees, contractors and transfers, and shortens the learning curve.
Speaker
Michael Esposito
GMP training consultant · 30+ years in pharma
Overview
GMP onboarding raises questions that ordinary onboarding doesn't. Are contractors treated like long-term employees? Where does GMP training end and HR training begin? When can new people start working, and how should new hires differ from internal transfers?
This 90-minute webinar answers those onboarding FAQs and shows how a well-designed program becomes part of your company culture, improving new hire retention and getting people contributing independently sooner. You'll cover management's expectations, HR onboarding, quality's role, GMP training requirements, full-time staff versus contractors and temporary personnel, and benchmarks for training and competency.
Why attend: Onboarding is your one chance at a first impression and shapes early motivation, while compliance, quality culture and work culture all need attention. Many hiring managers struggle with it, yet a few simple steps can produce a successful, compliant program. The session suits training managers and professionals, instructional designers, HR staff who coordinate with GMP training, QA/QC, manufacturing and operations supervisors, auditors, compliance officers, validation staff, technical writers and counsel.
What’s covered
- FAQs for employee onboarding
- Management's expectations for new employees
- HR onboarding
- Quality's role in onboarding
- GMP training requirements
- Full-time employees vs contractors and other temporary personnel
- New employees vs internal transfers
- Benchmarks for training and competency
Who should attend
What you get
About the speaker
Michael Esposito has over 30 years’ experience in the pharmaceutical industry and 17 years’ experience in GMP training and document management. He has worked for Wyeth Pharmaceuticals, Pfizer, and Johnson & Johnson's Consumer Healthcare Division in a variety of areas including Packaging, project administration, Quality Assurance, Government Contracts, translations, systems training, and international operations. He collaborated in the development and implementation of the training portion of the Consent Decree workplan for Johnson & Johnson Consumer Healthcare and revised their introductory GMP course. He is a member of the training organizations GMP Training Educators Association and Association for GXP Excellence and is fully fluent in Spanish. His areas of interest include systems training, training effectiveness, post-training user support, process improvement, product security, and sustainable packaging.
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