How to Onboard New Employees into Compliance Culture

Employee onboarding is the best way to get the most out of your employees as quickly as possible. Effective onboarding can also be a useful tool for compliance because integrating compliance into your onboarding process is the most effective way to emphasize the importance of your compliance program to the new hire and fully immerse them into your compliance culture.

This post provides a summary of our tips for how to effectively onboard new employees into your organization's compliance culture. For more details, you can also download our free Checklist on this topic.

Onboarding presents you with the opportunity to indoctrinate new employees into your compliance initiatives. A seamless, efficient way to ensure that the full spectrum of your compliance program is understood and embraced right from the beginning, and always. There are 8 crucial areas of the onboarding process where you can easily emphasize compliance.

  1. Hiring: Insert compliance directly into your hiring qualifications.
  2. Orientation: Make compliance a part of orientation.
  3. A Warm Welcome: Include Compliance in your, “Welcome aboard,” package.
  4. Training: Appoint a mentor who is a rockstar in compliance.
  5. Create an onboarding folder: Get compliance officers involved and have them put together a folder for the new hire.
  6. Get staff involved: Make compliance a part of training and get the entire staff involved.
  7. Expectations: Include compliance in your paperwork or meetings regarding the expectations you have of your new employee.
  8. Check Up/Check In: When you your meeting(s) to check in with your new employee, make sure to ask them if they have any compliance-related questions.

Prioritize the importance of your organization’s compliance culture right from the very start. You can also download our free checklist, "A Simple Checklist For Effective Compliance Onboarding", by clicking the button below.

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