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 history of substance abuse – a major consideration given they may have access to various drug samples.
In addition to these concerns, Kroll 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. Additionally, you probably maintain sensitive personal information on your employees, stakeholders, and test subjects – data that is becoming increasingly valuable in the age of identity theft.
Kroll’s comprehensive 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 – Ensures compliance with applicable laws and regulations, helps reduce workplace theft and violence, and verifies that employees are not only qualified to handle their level of responsibility, but are being honest about their histories.
Profiles of high risk individuals – Search includes up-to-date, structured profiles of more than 100 known animal activists and eco terrorists.
Specialized media searches – Work to identify possible histories of animal rights activism that may have not resulted in legal punishment.
Supplier/vendor screening – Verifies the capabilities and integrity of potential and existing suppliers – including business entities, key vendor employees, and vendor employees who work alongside your personnel or on your premises.
I.D. theft and fraud solutions – Helps organizations deter and recover from losses of sensitive personal information that may be held on your employees, clients, or organizational secrets.
In addition to the services listed above, U.S.-specific searches for the life sciences industry include:
Substance abuse testing – Helps life sciences organizations reduce the incidence of drug use and its effects in the workplace.
Driving record searches – Better ensure that your sales representatives have clean driving histories to help mitigate risks and reduce insurance costs.
Form I-9 including E-Verify – Enables companies 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.