Technical Writing Training Course – Procedures, SOPs and Instructional Materials
SOP Writing: Technical Writing Course – why human writing skills are as important as ever!
Are you responsible for writing, reviewing, or updating your company’s policies or Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs)? If so, this tech writing course is for you!
SOP Technical Writing training (online via Zoom or email us for custom onsite courses) is ideal for tech writers, particularly in the life sciences and pharmaceutical industries. Excellent tech writing option for anyone who needs to ensure GMP-compliant SOPs, but suitable for other businesses, industries, and instructional writers. Despite AI technologies being used as writing aids, they are not suitable for all purposes, and SOPs are so critical to patient safety that technical writers and SOP writers are more in demand than ever before.
Why Technical Writing Skills Matter More Than Ever
In a world increasingly reliant on AI and automation, technical writing remains a cornerstone of effective communication, data integrity and quality management in pharmaceutical and medical device manufacturing, and other regulated sectors.
Here’s why learning to ensure your SOPs and other written communications are clear, succinct, and relevant for their purpose:
- Human Context: AI excels in processing vast amounts of data, and can give you an outline or wording suggestions; however, it struggles with nuanced human context and can often get things wrong. Technical writers & SOP writers bring clarity and understanding to complex information; ensuring that critical details are accurately conveyed to diverse audiences and that they meet cGMP documentation requirements.
- Regulatory Compliance: Pharmaceuticals operate under stringent regulations where accuracy and precision are paramount. Technical writers are trained to navigate these requirements, ensuring compliance and minimising risks associated with miscommunication
- Confidentiality and Privacy Issues: When working with sensitive SOP data or industry information, you would not want to upload proprietary information to a platform that saves this information, and is likely to regurgitate it to other users, risking revealing your company’s proprietary processes, collateral, and intellectual property.
- Adaptability: While AI can assist in drafting documents, it cannot replace the adaptability, creativity, audience insight, and historical knowledge of a human writer. SOP writers and other tech writers can tailor content to specific audiences, ensuring information is accurate, engaging, and accessible to the intended audience (in other words, suitable for the purpose). Plus, humans need to verify change control processes are adhered to when making updates to their SOPs and other work instructions.
Why take this tech writing/SOP writing course?
- Invest in your writing career future with tech writing skills that will remain indispensable in pharmaceuticals and other life science sectors.
- Join our Technical Writing Course today and unlock new opportunities in this dynamic industry.
Benefits of this SOP Tech Writing course
- Industry Expertise: Learn from seasoned professionals with extensive experience in pharmaceutical SOP writing, instructional design, and other technical writing.
- Practical Learning: Gain hands-on experience through real-world examples (bring your out-of-date SOPs and you can work on them during the SOP & tech writing training session), with exercises tailored to pharmaceutical documentation and clear communications in highly regulated environments.
- Tech Writing Skills: Master essential skills for updating SOPs and writing technical reports.
- Certification: Earn a recognized credential that showcases your proficiency in SOP & Technical Writing for the pharmaceutical or medical device industry (Credly badge and SOP Tech Writing course Certificate of Attendance).
Overview of the Technical Writing Courses – Australia-wide – public courses or onsite training course options
- Well-written operating procedures (SOPs) help employees, contractors and end-users understand information the first time they read or hear it
- A well-written standard of operation document needs to be:
- Clear, detailed and useful
- Accessible and protected from unauthorised changes
- Up-to-date when platforms/systems, procedures, products, reporting structures and end-user technology changes
- Reviewed and authorised before use and reviewed regularly or as things change (e.g., following the recommended time frames to ensure currency)
- Managed adhering to cGMP/GMP change control requirements
Are you up to date with technical writing skills? Intensive Training Options (1 Day Tech Writing Courses including via Zoom)
- Who doesn’t want to improve regulatory compliance, shorten induction times, and reduce deviations caused by confusing procedures?
- In other areas of business, you might be writing instructions for end-users, researchers, clients, communities, or university academics.
Take time to spend a day honing your writing communication skills and earn your Certificate of Attendance – you will be very glad you did!
This course is offered virtually also, but places are limited, so register today to learn from the comfort of your home.
Standard Operating Procedures and Technical Writing
Compliance with quality standards means your technical documents need to be well-written — clear, detailed and easy to understand and implement.
If you are asked to write SOPs as part of your job role would you like some straightforward guidance on where to start and how to write? This one-day SOP Technical Writing Training Course is regularly offered in Auckland, Adelaide, Brisbane, Melbourne, and Sydney, but with Zoom options, you can attend from anywhere.
It is designed to guide quality management, quality professionals and technical writers in writing GMP-compliant SOPs and other operating procedures or instructions.
Technical Writing Course | Outline of the Tech Writing Training
Upon completion of this technical writing training course, participants will:
- understand the difference between procedural and instructional information
- learn techniques for presenting complex information
- know how to incorporate modern learning techniques into documents and reduce the documentation errors caused by ill-designed documents
- understand the role of the technical writer and how the role relates to document reviewers and documentation Approval processes
- understand the importance of good documentation practices (GDocP)
- know how to map processes and author effective, SOPs and other work instructions
- understand the requirements for documentation formats, templates and documentation systems
Tech Writing Training Course materials
- Participants of the SOP Technical Writing Training Course will receive a copy of the presentation(s), relevant notes and workshop materials.
- A Certificate of Completion will be issued to technical writing training participants who successfully complete the online assessment within the required time frame.
Who should attend this training course in Technical Writing?
This 1-Day technical writing training course is ideal for:
- Anyone working in a writing or technical writing position
- including experienced SOP writers
- new graduates/University students
- writing-industry job-seekers
- GMP industry employees who write SOPs or want to transition into an SOP writing position / technical writing position
- Business leaders looking to review their quality management system (QMS) document structure to improve procedure usability
- Medical Sciences professionals, manufacturing engineers, Academics, post-graduates and others with writing responsibilities, particularly in the bio-sciences, pharmaceutical, medical device or veterinary medicines industries but also applicable for a wide range of industries where technical writing and SOP writing skills are required
Technical Writing Course Price:
AUD$500.00 + 10% GST Full Day Virtual Training
AUD$550.00 + 10% GST Full Day Classroom Training
Prices are per person and include morning tea, lunch and afternoon tea. (Note: Excluded for virtual training sessions)
Register for the SOP Technical Writing Training Course below:
We also offer onsite courses to 10 or more of your employees, Academics, researchers, University staff and students (researchers and graduates).
If you need any assistance, would like a quote for personalised group training at your site or a nearby facility — or if you have a general technical writing training question — don’t hesitate to contact us at one of our offices around the world.
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