So, you’ve had the early morning call from a staff member. A fire in the floor above you has spread to your office floor. The fire brigade got there quickly but, even so, more than half of your paper records are damaged by fire or water, many beyond recovery. A number of your PCs have […]
Managing documents – a joint effort
To run a business successfully, it’s important to periodically ask questions, such as: “For which tasks do we lack the necessary expertise?” “Which tasks could we do, but likely with low efficiency, low quality, high cost and high stress?” “Which tasks do we do just rarely enough for us to be at risk of forgetting […]
Record retention and deletion
It’s that time of year again. The end of each financial year is when many of us finally get around to sorting out the clutter on our desks, in our filing cabinets and on our computer storage facilities – computer hard drives, CDs, tape backup drives and the like. Then we classify old records, and […]
Company Data Security
We now rely on and use data in every part of our lives. Text, sound, images and video about each of us is stored by every service we have used, every workplace we have worked at and, increasingly, homes we live in or visit. Globally, the total volume of data is doubling roughly every two […]
Aged care facility
As our population ages, more and more of us will live in aged care facilities at some stage in our lives – nursing homes, hostels and the like. Many of us already have family members who are residents of such establishments. As facility users, we expect appropriate levels of information about residents’ health and well […]
The Importance of Secure Disposal of Personal Documents
As individuals we collect a large number of documents – both hard copy and electronic. These can potentially be misused. They include bank statements; credit card information; tax details; superannuation and pension information; pay slips; legal documents; car registration rates and utilities bills etc. Some of these need to be kept for a certain amount of […]