Training your teams
Unannounced or announced, the assignment can cover a system, product or FDA-style inspection. Your teams practise interviews with the inspector, understand the inspector's point of view and the significance of an observation, and learn to group observations to build a diagnosis of strengths and weaknesses.
How the assignment runs
- 1Initial contact with the Qualified Person: objectives and potential weaknesses of the site.
- 2Preparation of the inspection programme from the layouts, the last report, recent changes and the master procedures. The schedule is not shared with the teams.
- 3On-site workshop of half a day: front room / back room, behaviour, how to answer.
- 4On-site inspection, with a 30-minute daily debrief to consolidate observations and launch corrections.
- 5Closing meeting : observations, criticality and solutions presented by your managers.
- 6Inspection report within one month: observations classified and ranked, risk factors.
- 7Feedback day : assessment of your action plan.
