COURSE OBJECTIVES: This course examines the main practical and legal issues that need to be taken into account when implementing or reviewing document management policies.
BACKGROUND: All businesses and organisations generate and receive documents, whether in paper, electronic or other forms. Many of these documents, or the information that they contain, need to be retained for business, legal or other reasons. Document management policies seek to ensure that internal business needs and external regulatory requirements are satisfied in the most efficient and effective manner. This course is designed to enable participants to create, maintain or update document management policies for their organisation.
COURSE CONTENT
Document Management Policies
- Documents - paper, electronic, etc
- Aims of the policy
- Benefits
- What a policy should cover
- Project management
- Where to start?
- Proportionate response
Retention and Disposal Schedules
- Retention schedules
- Disposal and review policies
- Factors that need to be taken into account
Legal and Regulatory Issues
- Regulatory retention requirements
- Limitation periods
- Risk assessments
- Documents as evidence
- Disclosure of documents
- Data protection
Electronic Records
- Capture of paper records in electronic storage
- Creation and storage of electronic records
- E-mails
- Electronic records as evidence
- Regulatory requirements
- British Standards
WHO SHOULD ATTEND
Staff with responsibility for designing, implementing or maintaining an organisation’s document retention and management policies and procedures.
"Excellent course to enable the structure of a policy to be established. This is a complex subject but the course was presented in an interesting manner."
This course is designed to be run either as an in-house course or as a training pool title only. For more information on how the training pool works please click on the Quorum Training Pool item in the menu on the left of this page.
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