Tisuelink - Simply Better Surgery Virtually every company must comply with employee-related regulations from federal, state and local government agencies, as well as some private monitoring entities. At the most basic level for most firms above even a handful of employees, this means complying with OSHA rules in the area of workplace health and safety. For publicly traded companies in the US, there are new Sarbanes-Oxley regulations on accounting, reporting, ethics and conflict of interest that must be enforced.  In some international banking sectors, compliance with new Basel II regulations is being mandated to enforce prudent capital regulation, supervision, and market discipline. Government agencies themselves are subject to a myriad of workplace rules that employees must comply with. Depending on the industry, some insurance carriers insist on certain types of safety and disaster preparedness training in order to maintain coverage.

At the most extreme end of the compliance spectrum are companies under the jurisdiction of high-imperative agencies such as the FDA, CE, TUV, FAA, SEC and Homeland Security that stipulate training requirements around virtually all aspects of the business. Non-compliance with regulations can have serious legal and civil liability consequences.

The Starcast Solution For most organizations, compliance with all these regulations generally means holding classroom training sessions, sending out binders and packets of paper for remote employees, gathering of signatures on paper forms and transcribing the data onto spreadsheets; all of which is time consuming, expensive and cumbersome. With this manual framework, tracking is usually difficult and reporting is often months behind the curve.

Now with StarCast, the training can all be done on line from the worksite or at home. Tests are scored instantly, e-signatures are collected automatically and tracking data is compiled in real time. Compliance tracking is crucial because auditing agencies generally take the position that undocumented training did not occur. StarCast allows companies to produce immediate, accurate and comprehensive reports to satisfy auditing and compliance reporting requirements for the GAO.

Compliance in the Life Sciences StarCast has enjoyed over 5 years of partnership with the life sciences industry. Currently there are numerous StarCast installations among pharmaceutical, medical manufacturing, and biotechnology companies in North America and Europe. Although the infrastructure and solutions provided by each of these installations are different, they have a common business requirement, which is training. Given that almost all life sciences companies want to compete in the lucrative US market, they all must then comply with the US FDA regulations – including those requirements that regulate the use of computerized GMP systems, and training components for production workers and sales representatives. The FDA often makes unannounced manufacturing plant inspections to verify that employees understand assembly procedures. StarCast testing allow companies to demonstrate both that training was delivered and that the employee has full understanding of the information. Regulated training even extends to the sales arena; many hospitals now require that sales persons show training certificates for Bloodborne Pathogens and HIPAA before entering the hospital premises.

Whether a company is in medical products, retail, manufacturing, StarCast makes the entire process of compliance training more efficient and successful.