Standard Operating Procedures in a Good Practice Environment: Benefit or Burden?

I was both excited and curious the day I started a new job in the quality affairs department of a pharmaceutical company. As usual, I attended onboarding meetings and received a training plan that contained a list of standard operating procedures (SOPs). So far, so good. But once I looked into the company’s training documents, my excitement turned to surprise. The SOP training included more than 150 good practice (GxP) SOPs, several of them longer than 50 pages and full…