The SuccessFactors LMS has extensive support for government and industry regulations across the globe. Companies operating in multiple countries should consider regulations when choosing an LMS and ensure that system supports the applicable regulations.
You wouldn’t want to find yourself in the middle of legal issues and fees now would you?!
Intended to protect the public against manufacturing defects and anomalies in production of medical goods and pharmaceutical products 21 CFR Part 11 includes regulations that governs the use of electronic signatures in the Life Sciences industry.
The SuccessFactors LMS implemented two major features to support the regulated medical industry:
Electronic Signatures
21 CFR Part 11 requires an additional password when recording learning events. When E-Signatures are activated in the SuccessFactors LMS, users must enter an additional password. This password is used only when recording learning. This comes into play in two situations:
Audit Trails
Life Sciences companies are audited regularly to ensure compliance, and must produce reports demonstrating that e-signatures are properly recorded. The LMS maintains audit tables on important data including changes to learning history, user, items (courses) and curricula. If an Admin has modified a learning history record, a report will show this change. The following reports are available on audit tables:
Audit Trail
(Sample Report)
The French government as well as work councils in France impose certain training requirements on employers operating in France. Employees must be given the opportunity to complete a certain amount of training each year and the time spent in training must be accounted for. When training takes place outside of normal work hours employers may be required to compensate employees for that time. The French government requires 2483 Reporting, which details the dollars spent on training and the amount of training delivered to employees. A percentage of revenues is collected and applied towards training some of which helps train people who are out of work.
The LMS supports the following regulations applied to companies in France by the French national government and by work councils:
2483 Report
(Sample)
The German government requires employee data be deleted from all systems 5 years after the employee has left the company. A process called the “Purge Deleted User Audit History” automatic process deletes user data after X days. The number of days can be set to any numeric value. It is not required to be set to1826 days (5 years), so companies can be stricter than the German government requires. Companies outside of Germany can be less stringent as they are not required to comply with German regulations.
Purge Feature
(Screenshot)
Support for US government agencies is extensive, as the SuccessFactors LMS is the system of choice for most US federal agencies. Two features in particular were implemented to support the US Federal Government regulations. The requirements were specified originally by the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) and generalized for companies to use if they wish.
Given all that, EHRI is supported. The LMS supports loading private data including Social Security Number and Date of Birth through a feed from the HRIS directly into the LMS. PII fields are never displayed to admins and users. It is imported through a system interface, stored in encrypted tables, and exported to a standard reported transmitted through SFTP to OPM.
SF-182 Form
(Screenshot)
Worker Qualifications may be strict regulations imposed by a third party or they may be internal training requirements that determine employee eligibility to work. Employees not up to date on training may be prevented from doing their job until required training is complete.
The primary feature that supports employee qualifications is Curricula. Curricula were at one time (very early versions) called Qualifications, and some database fields and code still refer to qualifications. Don’t be surprised to find the phrase QUAL when you dig deep into the underlying properties files of the system.
Worker qualifications follow a general pattern:
As you can see the SuccessFactors LMS has extensive support for a wide range of both government and industry regulations across the globe. Companies operating in multiple countries should consider regulations when choosing an LMS, and ensure that whatever the choice the system does in fact support the applicable regulations. You wouldn’t want to find yourself in the middle of legal issues and fees now would you?!
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