On-Site Training
GDP Foundations: the two-day GDP training that turns rules into reflex
Walk back into your site able to recognise a deviation, run a temperature mapping, and explain your decisions to an inspector. In two days, instead of two years of learning the hard way.
Most GDP training teaches the rules. Then reality shows up.
A temperature excursion on a Friday afternoon. A supplier who changes a packaging detail without telling anyone. A pallet that sits forty minutes on a dock in July.
You freeze.
Nobody taught you what to do next, so you default to one of three things :
Nobody protects what they do not understand
A change control is not paperwork.
It is the thing standing between a modification and a patient.
Once someone sees that, they stop asking whether to raise one: they see it coming.
A deviation is not a confession. It is the system doing its job.
Once someone understands that, reporting stops costing them anything.
That is what the industry means by a reflex, and it is the whole difference between a person who has been trained and a person who is reliable.
It is also very hard to build alone.
It comes from working through real situations with someone who has lived them, on both sides of an inspection.
What the two days of GDP training will give you and your team
By the end of day two you can place GDP in the bigger picture and say why your company's licence to operate depends on it. You know why the QMS protects the patient and how it protects you.
You recognise when a change or a deviation needs to be flagged, and you know how to carry it through to a real fix.
You know where your role sits in the journey from marketing authorisation to the patient's door.
And you have run a temperature mapping study yourself, not watched one being explained.
1.
Day 1 · Foundations, told as a story
You will learn about
The QMS: tool or constraint?
Change control: what triggers one, and what happens when nobody raises it
Deviations: report it, do not hide it
Mapping: finding the blind spots before they become problems
2.
Day 2 · GDP essentials
You will learn about
GDP legislation and the medicinal product journey
QMS in practice: personnel and quality management
Review of day 1, so nothing stays theoretical overnight
Reception, storage and temperature monitoring
Falsified medicines, pick and pack, transport, outsourced activities
Summative assessment
Who will be your trainer
Nelly Slegers, pharmacist, more than 30 years in pharmaceutical quality, as QA manager, Qualified Person and Responsible Person, including years at Labima and at Pharma Logistics (DHL Supply Chain).
She has signed off batches. She has faced inspectors. She has had to explain, at 6pm on a Friday, why a shipment could not go out.
She has trained and mentored over 50 professionals across QC, QA, manufacturing, distribution and regulatory affairs, and has worked with teams at : Yellow5, Thermo Fisher Scientific, APB, among others.
When people understand the why behind a regulation, the how becomes almost effortless.
Is this GDP training for you?
Three ways to get started
Enroll directly
Fill in the form on this page with your details and your company's. You get a confirmation email straight away, and an invoice to follow.
Book a call with Nelly
Pick a slot in her calendar. Useful if you want to check the fit first, or see whether part of the training should lean towards your operations.
Get the detailed programme
Leave your email and receive the full two-day breakdown: the cases covered, the timing, enough to make the internal case. No commitment either way, and you can still enroll or book a call afterwards.
The practical details
Dates | 1 and 2 December 2026 |
Hours | 09:00 to 16:30, both days |
Location | |
Group | 8 participants maximum |
Language | English or French or Dutch |
Price | 1.750 € excl. VAT, per participant |
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Why this is worth the investment
One deviation handled badly costs more than this in investigation time alone. One finding at inspection costs far more.
So the question is not whether two days are worth the price. It is whether someone who understands what they are protecting is worth more to you than someone who memorised a guideline.
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