Risk Management Writing: Secrets for Avoiding Liability and Creating Accurate Powerful Documents

Description

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Many employees in FDA regulated industries just don’t get it. They fail to understand the importance of their documents in the firm’s manual or electronic files. An FDA official or a jury in a product liability case will look at the documents and determine if the firm placed its quarterly revenue goals ahead of the safety of the patients that use its products.

To help employees, Nancy Singer, Compliance-Alliance, former prosecutor for the Department of Justice is offering a ½ day session on “Risk Management Writing: Secrets for Avoiding Liability and Creating Accurate, Powerful Documents.”

Objectives

• The obligations of working in a regulated industry
• Ways poorly written documents can be a source of humiliation
• How documents tell the story about the corporate culture
• How to document the firm’s risk management activities
• The effect of inappropriate warning
• The importance of having and following a good document retention program
• How to write documents that show the firm’s actions in the most positive light
• The practices that will draw attention to specific documents if a firm is sued
• The consequences of not monitoring employees’ emails
• How to write memos and emails that will be read and acted upon
• Techniques for keeping reader's eyes glued to the page
• Tricks to improve proofreading skills by 95%

Target Audience

• Product safety and compliance engineers
• Product designers
• Engineering consultants
• Regulatory affairs professionals

Customer Testimonial
"Very informative and great fun as well.  I think all employees at my company would benefit from this training as it is presented so well!"

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