Adequate Records Management

The Adequate Records Management Standard has changed!!! There are now not ten, but ELEVEN wonderful outcomes for us to comply with by 2009.

Click on the link below to view Issue One of 'Just for the Record', the records management newsletter for Hills, Mallee, Southern and Riverland Health Units!

Just For the Record - Issue 1 - October 2006

Click on the link below to view the very first edition of the Adequate Records Management Project Newsletter... Call To ARMS! If you have any issues you would like addressed in forthcoming newsletters, please contact Collette Ordish with your suggestions.... Enjoy!

Call To ARMS - Adequate Records Management Newsletter - July 2006.pdf

Records management is more than just filing paperwork, there is a process that must be followed to ensure the adequate management of our records. Records must be managed in a prescribed manner that promotes integrity, reliability, confidentiality and sustainability for that record.

Attached is the State Records flow-chart entitled 'Creation to Archive', which details the process that must be followed to adequately manage records within a State Government agency. Follow this process to ensure you are managing your records adequately.

Creation to Archive Flow Chart.pdf

For many people, the difficulty with records management begins with being able to determine whether a specific record is classed as an 'official' record, or whether the record can be destroyed according to 'normal administrative practice'...

Disposal is the process by which official records of a government agency are either destroyed, retained or transferred between agencies...