Mastering Lab Competency Management with Compass & Compass Plus

Competency is one of the most common—and avoidable—sources of lab citations.

If you’re still managing competencies across spreadsheets, binders, shared drives, and email threads, you already know how quickly things fall apart as labs scale, add methods, rotate staff, or manage multiple projects at once. When documentation is incomplete, inconsistent, or hard to retrieve, competency management becomes reactive—and inspections become stressful.

In this webinar, we’ll explore how MediaLab by Vastian’s Compass and Compass Plus transform competency management into a structured, automated, and audit-ready system designed specifically for laboratories. You’ll see how to standardize initial, semiannual, and annual competency assessments aligned to CLIA requirements, automate assignments and reminders, and capture complete evidence in one centralized system.

Through practical demonstrations and real-world workflows, we’ll show how Compass and Compass Plus help labs move from “almost compliant” to confident, inspection-ready competency management—year-round.  

Objectives:

• Understand why manual competency programs become citation risks as labs grow and change

• Learn how to standardize initial and ongoing competency by role, discipline, method, instrument, and location

• See how Compass automates assignments, reminders, due dates, and escalation so nothing falls through the cracks

• Discover how Compass supports audit-ready, survey-defensible competency documentation

• Explore advanced CompassPlus capabilities, including virtual case simulations that assess real-world decision-making

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