Adequate Records Management

In order for Health Units to be meeting the Adequate Records Management Standard, it is essential that all staff are aware of their responsibilities and obligations. Staff involved more heavily with the day-to-day management and maintenance of records management practices within health units, therefore require more specific, specialised training in such areas as retention and disposal, records classifications and archiving records....

What is the general disposal schedule you ask?? The General Disposal Schedule 15 (GDS), is a document published by State Records, which sets out the retention periods for all the business or administrative records we keep as Government agencies. A requirement of the State Records Act 1997, and subsequently of the Adequate Records Management Standard (May 2002), is that all Goverment agencies are retaining such records for the minimum retention period set out within the GDS. It is therefore imperative, that all employees of any Government agency are familiar with these records retention requirements.

Click on the link below to view the GDS 15...

General Disposal Schedule 15

The Adequate Records Management Standard was released in May 2002 by State Records to help all South Australian State Government agencies meet the goals of the State Records Act 1997. All State Government agencies must be meeting the standard by 2009.

Click on the link below to view the Adequate Records Management Standard...

Adequate Records Management Standard (May 2002)

To view each of the specific requirements of all Goverment Agencies to meet the Adequate Records Management standard, click on the link below...

Adequate Records Management Improvement Matrix

Collette Ordish, Adequate Records Management Project Officer, has been presenting awareness sessions pertaining to Adequate Records Management throughout the region, as well as the Riverland Region, to help Health Units to achieve the Adequate Records Management standard (May 2002).

Click on the link below to view this presentation...

Adequate Records Management Awareness Presentation.ppt