Life Sciences Industry
Leaked research, sabotaged laboratories, competitor espionage – these are all real threats faced by organizations operating within the life sciences industry. With so much of your resources invested in obtaining the intellectual capital crucial to your success, ensuring your employees are trustworthy is of vital importance. What’s more, you need to be certain you are not hiring an activist whose sympathies lie more with the animals in your laboratories than the humans you are trying to save, or a candidate with a substance abuse problem – a major consideration given they may have access to various drug samples.
In addition to these concerns, Kroll Background America, Inc. (KBA) is well-aware of issues affecting your industry such as compliance with ever-evolving background screening requirements, and increases in both decentralized workforces and product life-cycle outsourcing that make your organization more vulnerable to counterfeiting and intellectual property theft.
Our wide range of screening services make us the single-source solution for the tools you need to mitigate the risks unique to your industry.
Services of particular interest to life sciences organizations include:
- Employment background checks – Help ensure compliance with applicable laws and regulations, work to reduce workplace theft and violence, and better verify that employees are not only qualified to handle their level of responsibility, but are being honest about their histories.
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Vendor employee screening – Provides detailed information about vendor employees who have access to your workers, data and facilities.
- Drug and health screening – Helps life sciences organizations reduce the incidence of drug use and its effects in the workplace.
- U.S. Form I-9/E-Verify services – Enables employers to accurately and quickly perform employment eligibility verification, reduce Form I-9 processing errors, securely store and retrieve I-9 Forms online, receive proactive notifications of employees’ expiring work authorizations, and help reduce the potential for identity theft.