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#MeToo & Time’s Up – parallels to reporting GMP compliance issues
In this article published in Pharmaceutical Online, Joanna reflects on parallels between the movements spotlighting sexual harassment issues and issues she’s seen involving those reporting GMP compliance issues. Both situations highlight exceptionally bad – if not outright illegal – behavior for which there is no good excuse and no positive outcome for anyone involved.
Author joanna@jgta.netPosted on February 1, 2018 February 1, 2018 Categories Pharmaceutical Online articleTags communication, Data Integrity, integrity, management
In this article published in Pharmaceutical Online, a comment from a manufacturing operator leads to reflection on the way we currently do business making it harder for the people generating our revenue to do so. At the same time, we’re increasing the cost of producing a quality product. Is “flipping the org chart” a possible answer?
Author joanna@jgta.netPosted on August 1, 2017 February 1, 2018 Categories Pharmaceutical Online articleTags communication, continuous improvement, human error, management, performance, Q10, QbD, quality, TrainingLeave a comment on Flipping The Org Chart: Rethinking Where A Company’s Focus Should Be
Critical thinking is an absolute necessity in a quality culture – and it sometimes conflicts with our SOPs and how we have traditionally worked. This article emanated from a series of conversations that took place at a gathering in November 2016, and is presented in two parts on Pharmaceutical Online.
Part 1 discusses the various ways we teach people that we don’t want them to think, and what it does to our organizational culture.
Part 2 discusses how we change the “we don’t want you to think” culture and develop personnel who can think on their feet.
Part 1 (published April 10, 2017): Are You (Inadvertently) Teaching Your Personnel To NOT Think?
Part 2 (published May 10, 2017): Training Your Personnel to Think Beyond the SOP – the #8 most read article in 2017!
Author joanna@jgta.netPosted on April 11, 2017 February 1, 2018 Categories Pharmaceutical Online articleLeave a comment on Have we driven out our people’s ability and motivation to think?
This article, published in September 2016 in MasterControl’s GXP Lifeline, explores some common areas cited in regulatory inspections, and ways to prevent some of these issues.
Author joanna@jgta.netPosted on February 5, 2017 February 1, 2018 Categories UncategorizedTags investigation, laboratory, management, OOS, oversight, performance, quality, TrainingLeave a comment on Identifying & Preventing Common Data Integrity Issues
Author joanna@jgta.netPosted on February 5, 2017 February 1, 2018 Categories Pharmaceutical Online articleTags 5 whys, CAPA, human error, quality, root cause analysisLeave a comment on Do You Make This Critical Root Cause Analysis (RCA) Mistake?
This article, published in July 2016 by Pharmaceutical Online, revisits the landmark court case that gave us the fundamental principles of data integrity – because those who can’t recall the past are condemned to repeat it.
Author joanna@jgta.netPosted on August 16, 2016 February 1, 2018 Categories Pharmaceutical Online articleTags Data Integrity, investigation, laboratory, OOS, TrainingLeave a comment on The 5 Basic Tenets of Data Integrity & How Failures Occur
One of the things I like about delivering webinar courses is the fact that I get to speak and interact with people I might otherwise not come into contact with. After one recent webinar on reacting to human error, one of the attendees had a discussion with their management – and had questions from that meeting they sent me, looking for some guidance.
The exercise of applying the human performance models to the GMP environment was well worth the time, and led to a broader discussion of melding the two worlds as the next article in my Pharmaceutical Online series, delivered in 2 parts.
Part 1 addresses regulatory approach, confidentiality, and correcting an actual FDA 483 observation addressing human performance.
Part 2 explains what “human errors” truly are, when CAPA is (or should be) required, and how to get started using human performance improvement tools.
Author joanna@jgta.netPosted on April 19, 2016 February 1, 2018 Categories Pharmaceutical Online articleLeave a comment on Applying Human Performance Models in FDA-Regulated Environments
Joanna’s latest article is a follow-on piece to her popular 2015 article on making GMP training more practical. In this piece, you’ll find tips for making GMP training relevant and meaningful, examples of how that goes wrong, and some suggestions and sources that will help make GMP refresher training something that engages trainees.
View the article, published on Pharmaceutical Online in March, 2016.
Author joanna@jgta.netPosted on March 17, 2016 February 1, 2018 Categories Pharmaceutical Online articleTags continuous improvement, games, GMP, GMP training, management, onboarding, quality, refresher, TrainingLeave a comment on Power Up Your GMP Training: Make It Relevant, Meaningful, & Engaging
Mentoring is an important part of what we do in GMP/quality environments. This article explores points about mentoring in these situations and draws parallels to examples from Star Wars – and ends with two very important questions.
View the article, published by Pharmaceutical Online in January 2016.
Author joanna@jgta.netPosted on January 25, 2016 Categories Pharmaceutical Online articleTags GMP, GMP training, management, mentor, performance, quality, TrainingLeave a comment on Who’s YOUR Yoda?
Have you ever wanted to make your GMP training more relevant to daily operations? Explore suggestions for strengthening how we communicate the “GMP rules of the road” in the different types of training we do – onboarding, OJT, and refresher – in this article, published by Pharmaceutical Online in November 2015.
This article was listed as #3 on Pharmaceutical Online‘s top 10 most read list for 2015!
Author joanna@jgta.netPosted on November 4, 2015 February 1, 2018 Categories General Training, Pharmaceutical Online articleTags GMP training, OJT, onboarding, refresher, TrainingLeave a comment on Taking GMP Training from Painful to Practical
After providing a web course on reacting to human error for Life Science Training Institute, Joanna was approached by Pharmaceutical Online‘s Anna Rose Welch to give an interview on the topic and how it relates to current activities in pharma. The interview appears as a four part blog series, titled “Human Error – What Pharma Should Know and Do About it”:
Part 1 (published 16Jul15)
Part 2 (published 23Jul15)
Part 3 (published 29Jul15)
Part 4 (published 29Jul15)
Author joanna@jgta.netPosted on July 16, 2015 February 1, 2018 Categories Pharmaceutical Online articleTags CAPA, continuous improvement, human error, root cause analysis, TrainingLeave a comment on But is it really human error?
This article, published in Pharmaceutical Online in April 2015, was inspired by a colleague’s question about whether performance assessments as part of training are industry standard. The article explores the benefits of competency-based training, how it aligns with current regulatory expectations, and the benefits to the business of instituting competency-based training.
Author joanna@jgta.netPosted on April 16, 2015 February 1, 2018 Categories General Training, Pharmaceutical Online articleTags competency based training, GMP training, performance, performance assessment, TrainingLeave a comment on To CBT or Not to CBT…It Shouldn’t Be A Question
Some say that games don’t have a place in “serious” training. Such as, “We need to ensure people understand how critical/serious this topic is – games aren’t appropriate because a game won’t inspire people to take it seriously”.
I beg to disagree – through a story demonstrating how someone’s mind was changed.
I identify myself first and foremost as a “GMP Trainer” – meaning that my underlying purpose is to help people learn and apply the expectations of the regulations that govern the process of manufacturing drugs (and devices) for human use, so the products they produce are safe and benefit the patients who use them.
Pretty significant stuff – people make choices that can affect someone else’s life based on the information they receive from me. Doesn’t get much more “serious” than that, right?
The problem is that most GMP training is boring. It’s “serious” content. But we need people to “get it” – learn it, understand it, and live it. That’s the challenge.
For one particular round of GMP refresher training, we had two hours’ worth of dry information – with significant business impact – to get across to trainees who had heard it all before, and would be bored sitting through a review delivered by an instructor.
So, we chose to run it as a game. Only a game.
In the event you’re someone who is not well-versed in the use of games in training, consider some of the benefits and potential concerns associated with their use:
Using games in training is a good idea when possible because:
Games engage and involve everyone
Playing in teams allows for further discussion and reinforcement of training content
Games inject competitive energy into training courses and participants
Competition drives people to want to win, so they put effort into determining the correct answers
However, games need to be designed and managed appropriately, so that:
Everyone participates, not just those with the strongest content knowledge
Teams that aren’t doing as well as others don’t get discouraged and shut down
The game doesn’t overtake the importance of the content and become the focus of the session
Sessions were rolling along, and participants were having a GREAT time – they were moving and talking amongst themselves for the whole session.
Better yet, after the training, they were talking to others who hadn’t yet attended and telling them how great the training was.
Now, we also had a new Plant Manager (PM) that year. The PM thought GMP training should be something very different – and came prepared to tell us just that.
When the PM arrived for their scheduled session, s/he was clearly unhappy about something. Their body language just poured off of them in waves.
I was delivering that session, and sincerely hoped it wasn’t me causing that look.
The session kicked off, and through the introduction and rules, the PM’s body language didn’t change.
The content of the game was a review and analysis of the prior year’s GMP deviations, common errors, observations from a variety of regulatory audits of the site, and other fundamental GMP job knowledge and information. We used this information as a basis for questions – and didn’t give anyone in the room the answers. They had to figure them out.
The session proceeded, and the PM actively participated in the game, the discussions of the answers to the questions, and why one option was better than another. And the PM’s body language changed and significantly relaxed as the game went on.
At the end, the teams were rewarded (winners for winning, and the losing team for their effort) and all the participants left to go back to work – except for the PM, who came up to me and said:
“I owe you an apology.
I came in here thinking that GMP training wasn’t being taken seriously, because I heard it was a game. I was ready to shut this down.
I clearly misunderstood what was happening.
I saw people who were fully engaged and learning from one another throughout the whole game. You addressed things we haven’t done correctly, what we should do in similar situations, and why.
I have never seen anything like this before. I think it was the best, most impactful GMP refresher I’ve ever seen.”
And it worked, too. As examples:
A QC analyst, recognizing a situation discussed in the training, stopped someone from doing something that would compromise a cleanroom and showed them the correct thing to do. Word got back to the PM, who picked up the phone, called the QC analyst and thanked them for doing the right thing.
We saw reductions in the common errors that we highlighted.
Even better, we had people actually looking forward to more GMP training – to the point of stopping me in the parking lot and asking when the next refresher would be.
This training occurred 10 years ago. Believe it or not, people still remember it, and to this day, ask to do it again.
Now, every session may not be something that can be run only as a game – but some elements of the session likely can. Most content reviews, for example. Teaching certain concepts can also benefit from game thinking.
It just takes some creative effort to make it happen and ensure the content gets across.
Author joanna@jgta.netPosted on April 9, 2015 February 1, 2018 Categories General TrainingTags games, GMP training, refresher, TrainingLeave a comment on On Using Games in “Serious” Training
As organizations strive for Quality by Design compliance, operations will need to be aligned with and meet the expectations set in the ICH Q8, Q9, and Q10 guidance documents. In this article, Pharmaceutical Online’s Anna Rose Welch interviews Joanna to gain more insight into these documents and the challenges awaiting pharma as it makes sense of the ICH Q8, Q9, and Q10 puzzle.
Author joanna@jgta.netPosted on March 19, 2015 February 1, 2018 Categories Pharmaceutical Online articleTags communication, continuous improvement, ICH, Q10, Q8, Q9, quality systemsLeave a comment on A Living System for Quality: Unpacking ICH Q8, Q9 & Q10
This article, published on Pharmaceutical Online in February 2015, looks at management skills required for success in a GMP environment. While the article does not include a complete list of management skills, it addresses those that impact GMP performance, and identifies what can happen – in terms of cGMP performance effect – if the skills are not used.
This article was listed as #1 on Pharmaceutical Online‘s top 10 most read list for 2015!
Author joanna@jgta.netPosted on February 19, 2015 February 1, 2018 Categories Pharmaceutical Online articleTags communication, integrity, management, metrics, oversight, performance, TrainingLeave a comment on What Management Skills Have the Most Impact on GMP Performance?
This article, published in Pharmaceutical Online in December 2014, introduces a discussion of “Management Problems” and how they can lead to cGMP issues, including how they differ from “Personnel Errors” and why they are so difficult to identify, along with suggestions for avoiding these issues.
Author joanna@jgta.netPosted on February 19, 2015 February 1, 2018 Categories Pharmaceutical Online articleTags human error, management, root cause analysisLeave a comment on Identifying cGMP Issues Caused by “Management Problems”
This article, published on Pharmaceutical Online in September 2014, discusses the elements required to create a culture of quality, and those organizational behaviors that impede a functional quality culture.
This article was rated the sixth most popular article on Pharmaceutical Online in 2014!
Author joanna@jgta.netPosted on February 19, 2015 February 1, 2018 Categories Pharmaceutical Online articleTags continuous improvement, Data Integrity, management, root cause analysis, TrainingLeave a comment on The Road to a Culture of Quality
This article, published on Pharmaceutical Online in June 2014, describes how a comment from an FDA inspector triggers a new way to look at 483 observations.
This article was listed as #4 on Pharmaceutical Online‘s top 10 most read list for 2015!
Author joanna@jgta.netPosted on February 19, 2015 February 1, 2018 Categories Pharmaceutical Online articleTags 5 whys, root cause analysis, TrainingLeave a comment on Every 483 Observation Has a Training Component
Author joanna@jgta.netPosted on February 19, 2015 February 1, 2018 Categories Pharmaceutical Online articleTags Data Integrity, TrainingLeave a comment on Strong Data Is Generated By Strong People
This article, published in Pharmaceutical Online in May 2014, presents a discussion of underlying causes and questions to ask about errors that seem to be human errors.
This article was listed as#2 in Pharmaceutical Online’s top 10 most read list for 2014, and #9 on 2015’s top 10 list!
Author joanna@jgta.netPosted on February 19, 2015 February 1, 2018 Categories Pharmaceutical Online articleTags 5 whys, human error, root cause analysisLeave a comment on Human Error Is the Leading Cause of GMP Deviations – Or Is It?