UL’s longtime CRADA relationship with FDA offers unique insight into their cGMP training expectations UL’s Life Sciences division is built upon a foundation of our 21-year relationship with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Since 1999, UL and FDA have maintained a continuous Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA) to co-develop and deliver critical […]
Has your organization considered or instituted employee furloughs, in lieu of layoffs, to save money, jobs, and valuable in-house talent? For L&D managers in regulated industries, maintaining compliance for these workers can be tricky. UL’s ComplianceWire® LMS offers a simple solution to ensure furloughed workers remain compliant on their learning and development activities upon return […]
Have you ever received workplace training that was irrelevant to your role? Each employee needs a different set of learning materials and requirements. As a learning administrator, you should have control over the types of learning your employees see. But manual assignments and tracking can be a waste of time. You need to create personalized […]
So, coronavirus is here. Coronaviruses are a family of viruses that typically cause mild colds. They are nothing new and are year-round ailments, although like most cold/cough viruses, they tend to make themselves known in the winter. COVID-19 is a novel, or new, strain of coronavirus. That means it’s something our immune systems have never […]
When it comes to regulatory compliance, biologic, medical device and healthcare organizations have ultra-specific feature requirements. Designed from its inception as a tool to serve the life sciences, UL’s ComplianceWire® uniquely addresses these requirements at its foundation. Other LMS software development teams would struggle to add this level of conformance into their systems, as these […]
The way humans learn has changed very little over the past 5,000 years. We still process information through stories and examples and learn best through a continuum of relatable experiences. What has dramatically changed, however, is our ability to understand various learning techniques and to implement them in meaningful ways. One of the most powerful […]
As a relatively new UL employee, I didn’t know what to expect from UL’s recent Knowledge Summit in Philadelphia. As such, I was blown away by the passion that my UL colleagues and our customers showed. In EHS, we are part of an energetic, committed, intelligent and innovative community! Below are some of the things that stood out to […]
Avoidable audit findings sideline too many small and mid-size businesses (SMB) in the life sciences. As a result, critical product regulatory approvals can be jeopardized or delayed due to inconsistent or inadequate training activities and incomplete or error-ridden reporting. These same types of companies shared with me that they bypassed the addition of a learning […]
We’ve all been there—days spent away from our jobs completing required training programs that ultimately left us disappointed, confused, marginalized and with no new learning assets. Certainly, employee development plays a pivotal role in every successful enterprise today. But the most successful learning and development teams also understand how to measure the success of each […]
In a strong corporate safety culture, every employee is involved in safety activities and motivated to identify and reinforce habits and practices that protect staff, products and the facility. Successful cultures of safety are not ashamed of near misses. Instead, they consider incidents and negative observations as opportunities to improve work systems and communicate observations […]