Maximizing Safety and Compliance in Pharmaceutical Employment
If you employ pharmacy technicians and pharmacists, in-depth background checks aren’t just a good idea—they’re a requirement. Performing these checks during pre-employment screening — and at regular intervals — helps you stay compliant with industry regulations and offers peace of mind that your employees will provide safe, reliable service to patients.
Maximizing Safety and Compliance in Pharmaceutical Employment
The Importance of Pharmacy Technician Background Checks
It’s not enough to perform background checks on your pharmacists. Your pharmacy technicians also have access to secure substances — so they require the same scrutiny and screening as your pharmacist hires. Pharmacy technician background checks are important for businesses for several reasons:
- Maintain Regulatory Compliance: As mentioned, the pharmaceutical industry is highly regulated, with regulations set forth by numerous organizations, including the FDA. Background checks help you stay in compliance with these requirements and keep your business safe.
- Protect your Intellectual Property: For companies that develop pharmaceuticals, research and development are invaluable assets. Background checks can identify potential security risks — and protect that intellectual property from theft or leaks.
- Mitigate Risks: The potential for harm in the pharmaceutical industry is high, from illegally selling controlled drugs to the accidental distribution of incorrect doses or substances. An in-depth background check helps reduce these risks.
- Maintain Ethical Standards: At Accurate, our background checks don’t just check the candidate’s criminal history. We also look for broader signs of unethical behavior, including sanctions and other concerns, so you can trust in the ethical behavior of your employees.
- Make Better Hiring Decisions: Rigorous, accurate background checks help you hire the right technicians without sacrificing speed or efficiency. Being able to trust in the knowledge, experience, and ethics of an applicant allows you to hire with confidence.
- Protect Your Patients: You can’t afford to take chances with your patients’ health, especially when handling the medicine they rely on for their health. Verifying each applicant’s qualifications, experience and conduct helps prevent potentially life-threatening errors and keep your patients safe.
What’s Included in a Pharmaceutical Background Check?
At Accurate, our customizable background checks give you the information you need to make the right hire the first time. From basic criminal history to a comprehensive work history, we can provide you with the data you need to make important hiring decisions. Accurate pharmaceutical background checks can cover:
- Professional Licenses and Certifications: Verification of all required licenses will assist you in remaining compliant with state and federal regulations. Ongoing monitoring is also helpful to demonstrate compliance and minimize the risk of employees working under an expired or sanctioned license.
- Regulatory Compliance Checks: A comprehensive check for any past violations or penalties from regulatory bodies like the FDA
- Drug and/or Occupational Health Testing: These screens are often required to fulfill legal and regulatory requirements and maintain professional integrity and patient safety
- Education Verification: Accurate checks candidates’ education history in pharmaceuticals, medicine, and related fields to ensure they meet minimum qualifications
- Work History: Thorough search of past employment in the pharmaceutical field, including in areas like research and development
- Criminal Background Check: Comprehensive check of criminal history to identify potential red flags.
- Sanctions Screening: Examination of databases for sanctions against the candidate, including disqualifications that might restrict the work they can perform
All of these checks are vital to help you hire experienced, trustworthy, and qualified candidates in the pharmaceutical field.
