Trainings in pharma: Challenges and solutions

Subrata Chakraborty,GxPFont Consulting,INOVR Trainings explains how VR-based training environments can simulate actual shop-floor environment and provide an auto guided immersive training platform in pharma

If we look at the trend of recent regulatory citations, to me, most of them could be directly or indirectly attributed to personnel capability or practice-related issues. Obviously, human performance variability and its impact on product quality have clearly grabbed the attention of regulators worldwide. This is also evident from the newly published EU annexe-1, which has such an elaborate section on ‘Personnel’ as compared to its last update in 2003, with an increased reiteration of the word ‘training’ from 5 to 10 times in the current revision.

This is apparently leading to increasing focus of the pharma organisations to make training an important pillar of their quality systems. However, many top leaders of such organisations still wonderwhy do so many people in the company fail to perform in the right way, even after going through the training programmes each year?

This is an obvious question, but the answer lies deep