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Legal Responsibilities of Managers and Supervisors: Avoiding Legal Landmines
Employers throughout the United States are faced with rapid and increasing changes and developments in the area of employment law. Currently there are staggering numbers of employment-related claims being filed in state and federal courts, and with various administrative agencies. Such claims can often result in tremendous employer liability as well as substantial legal expense, causing employer..
Outlook: Ten Really Cool Features to Boost Efficiency
In this webinar, you will learn many shortcuts, ways to save often used text, easy ways to find dates, and become more efficient at finding mail. You will also integrate using mail, contacts, and calendar. Finally, you learn which options to set to make Outlook for best for you.Areas CoveredQuick StepsCreate AutotextEmail Delivery OptionsCreate a Contact from an EmailSchedule Using Natural PhrasesAutomate S..
Privacy Right Issues in the Workplace
If you, do not know what an employee and employer’s privacy rights are and do it wrong, are you prepared to face the consequences of actual, compensatory, or punitive damages and damage to your own professional reputation and standing within your work community? And what about COVID-19 or the next pandemic? For the foreseeable future the workplace will be raising issues about an employee’s privacy rig..
The Role of Logbooks and Recordkeeping in Identifying Root Causes
An out-of-compliance under GLP or ISO 17025 is a discreet and specific event. Its occurrence has major consequences for the laboratory operation. Can the incident and its timing give clues to what caused the non-compliance?The records in a lab – the logbooks for chemicals, reagent and calibration solutions, for sample preparation, for instrument maintenance and calibration, for quality checks – all are time..
Advanced Project Management Tips & Best practices for Human Resource Professionals
Refine your organizational skills to keep your projects on time, on budget, and on target. You've learned the basic techniques of project management. You've mastered the planning, executing, reviewing, and revising skills making the difference between success and absolute failure. You are good at getting the different players and stakeholders to provide information or direction and to show up for important ..
Conducting Effective, Legally-Compliant Investigations Of Harassment & Bullying Allegations
Missteps in handling sensitive employee issues could result in your organization writing a check with a lot of zeros on it. How companies investigate potential misconduct can affect the company’s reputation as well as its bottom line. Cultural and generational diversity is changing the landscape of the US workforce. That diversity can become fuel for all types of litigation. Understa..
Misunderstanding OSHA safety regulations that can cost you money
Misunderstanding OSHA regulations can cost you money. An in-compliance safety program will alert you to a possible injury before it happens. What is the lockout tag out regulation all about, and how to comply with this regulation?To lead employers step-by-step through what a well-run program looks like. To provide recommendations on how to install the program, to provide OSHA definition of training and how ..
Using Competencies to Get Breakthrough Results
Most organizations today are trying to get more work done at a lower cost. One way to do that is to focus on individual productivity differences. According to research, some people are much more productive than other people. In fact, top performers may get as much as TWENTY TIMES the work results of average performers. How do they do that? The answer has to do with competencies. Competencies describe indivi..
Cannabis in the Workplace: Has the U.S. Gone to Pot?
We will discuss the growth in legalization of cannabis across the United States. We will discuss the laws, the policies, the procedures, and best practices relating to medical cannabis, recreational cannabis use, illegal use, and other drug issues in the workplace. Areas CoveredThe “new” cannabis on the market and how to recognize itState cannabis lawsAntidiscrimination lawsFederal laws and bills on cannabi..
Design Inputs - Design Outputs Traceability Matrix - Principles of Lean Documents and Lean Configuration
Design controls involve the translation of user requirements (aka Voice of the Customer) into specific technical requirements as to design inputs. These design inputs then form the basis of the design specification, which becomes the design output. Since design controls require tracing backward and forwards in order to link the requirements to their satisfaction, a problem faced by many companies is in havi..
Managing Toxic & Other Employees Who Have Attitude Issues
Toxic employees cause significant overt, covert, people-related & financial damage with their visible behavior just being the tip of the iceberg. For example, in one organization the day a former employee left the organization is considered one of their annual holidays.Clever toxic employees :Utilize their technical expertise to intimidate & manipulateKnow who to flatter & who they can abuseTurn..
Suspend Work – “Remain on Standby” – What Can A Contractor Recover?
When an owner issues a suspended work directive is the contractor entitled to recover delay and delay damages? This session examines what damages are typically owed when work is suspended and some limitations of suspension damages. Five court cases setting forth key requirements necessary to collect damages are discussed. Recommendations on what actions contractors should take when work is suspended are pro..
2022:How to Navigate Political Speech in the Workplace
Political speech at work is creating more of a problem now than it did during the 2016 Presidential election!!! With the impeachment, divisive country, and upcoming 2020 election, it has escalated even more. A new survey has found that a significantly increased percentage of employees are feeling stressed and strained because of the political speech since the 2016 campaign! Employees are feeling more cynica..
Contamination Controls For Non-Sterile Drug Product Manufacturing Facilities
This presentation is intended as an introductory overview of current industry best practices for minimizing the risk of non-sterile drug product contamination during the manufacturing process. A brief overview of the primary regulatory requirements and industry standards will be presented, (FDA, EU, ISO, ICH, USP, PDA, USP), followed by a presentation and analysis of 3 differing approaches for contamination..
FDA 21 CFR Part 11
This webinar will introduce the reasons why we have big issues about data handling and storage. What is important, should be acknowledged, and trained in a company which depends on data. Not rocket science, but common sense and organized working. The uncertainty about correctly handled and stored data. Areas CoveredPlanning of collecting data from information (or a frame)Data collection, interim storage, co..