Bad Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) — Bad Training: Garbage In, Garbage Out — 3-Hour Course
Fix bad SOPs at the source — a 3-hour course covering SOP writing parameters, training development, curriculum design, LMS considerations, and ongoing knowledge retention assessment.
Instructor
Michael Esposito
GMP Training & Document Management Specialist
What You'll Learn
About the event
About this event
Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) are necessary to demonstrate compliance with regulations and serve as a documented roadmap ensuring consistency. If you want to improve SOP writing and training materials that create more effective training and help reduce errors, this 3-hour course is for you.
Topics include how to define the parameters of an effective SOP, what interactions are necessary with the SOP process owner to improve writing, how to translate the SOP into effective curriculum development, and how to perform an ongoing assessment of knowledge retention for continuous improvement.
Code: FDB3584
Curriculum
Requirements
- SOP owners, writers, reviewers, and training managers in GMP environments
- Applicable to QA, Production, Compliance, Engineering, R&D, and IT departments
Meet Your Instructor

Michael Esposito
GMP Training & Document Management Specialist
Michael Esposito has 30 years experience in the pharmaceutical industry and 13 years experience in GMP training and document management. He has worked for Wyeth Pharmaceuticals, Pfizer and Johnson & Johnson's McNeil Consumer Healthcare Division in areas including Packaging, 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 McNeil and revised their introductory GMP course. He is a member of the training organization GMP TEA and is fully fluent in Spanish.
Event Details
Format
Recorded Webinar
Duration
3 hours
Certificate
Included
Access
Lifetime
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