Pharmaceutical manufacturing sites continuously compete, even within the same company to maintain production volumes and avoid closures. To attain a status of a high performing organization manufacturing sites are implementing strategies and practices like operational excellence and performance reliability. To achieve this goal, innovative approaches to traditional processes need to take place.
Join this session by expert speaker Ginette Collazo, where she will discuss how by redesigning the training function and by focusing on the expected result (human reliability) instead of the how (training), a reduction of more than 60% of human error events in pharmaceutical manufacturing facilities was achieved.
Session Highlights:
Background on Human Error Phenomena and Measurement.
The importance of Human Error Prevention/reduction.
Quantitative and qualitative information gathering.
Facts about human error and training.
The Challenge: Reduce Human Error
Methodology
Findings
Organizational Level Actions Taken
Specific Actions Taken
Final Results: 60% Reduction
Why You Should Attend:
Understand human error: factors and causes.
Understand the importance: regulatory and business.
Learn about human error measurement.
Learn about approaches for measurement.
Establish Key Performance Indicators.
Identify what I can do to support human reliability.
Who Should Attend:
Training managers and coordinators
Operations
Manufacturing
Plant Engineering
QA/QC staff
Process excellence/improvement professionals
Industrial/process engineers
Compliance officers
Regulatory/legislative affairs professionals
General/corporate counsel
Executive management
*You may ask your Question directly to our expert during the Q&A session.
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Ginette Collazo
Ginette Collazo, Ph. D. is an Industrial-Organizational Psychologist with 20 years of experience that specializes in Engineering Psychology and Human Reliability, disciplines that study the interaction between human behavior and productivity. She has held positions leading training and human reliability programs in the Pharmaceutical and Medical Device Manufacturing Industry.
Nine years ago, Dr. Collazo established Human Error Solutions, LLC (HES, ), a Florida based boutique consulting firm, where she has been able to position herself as one of the few Human Error Reduction Experts in the world. HES, led by Dr. Collazo, developed a unique methodology for human error investigations, cause determination, CA-PA development and effectiveness that has been implemented and proven amongst different industries globally. This scientific method has been applied in critical quality situations and workplace accidents.
Ginette Collazo, Ph. D. is the author of the book Human Error: Root Cause Determination Model, published in 2008. She is also a speaker at significant events like Interphex, FDAnews Annual Conference, Global Conference on Process Safety, International Conference on Applied Human Factors and Ergonomics, and of course, Pharmaceutical Industry Association.