Records Management

Ensure your staff understand how to administer records and documented information throughout its life cycle from the time of creation to its destruction to ensure security, consistency and accessibility.

Course Details

Regulation/Law

N/A

Ideal for

All employees, contractors, and volunteers

Region

Best Practice

Course Format

Structured Learning option

Duration

Between 30 - 40 minutes

Everyone in the organisation has a responsibility to create and maintain records that are both protected and accessible to authorised personnel.

Understanding how to properly create, manage, and eventually dispose of records is crucial for ensuring the confidentiality, reliability, and availability of these records. It is essential to maintain accurate records to ensure continuity within the business.

Course Overview

About this online course

Our Records Management course is designed to equip staff with the essential skills to create and maintain records to the highest standards, ensuring they are both easily accessible and protected. The course covers crucial topics, including the proper methods for creating, retaining, and securely destroying records. Through interactive scenarios and practical guidance, this course promotes best practices in records management, helping organisations maintain accurate, reliable, and secure documentation throughout the record lifecycle, and ensuring that all records are managed efficiently and responsibly.

Ideal for workplaces that are

If you’re a manager looking to train a group within your organisation, external suppliers or all staff, please fill in our enquiry form and let us know the size of your organisation. Our compliance experts will assist you.

Key takeaways for participants

  • Comprehensive coverage of record management life cycle
  • Engaging and interactive animated modules for an optimal user experience
  • Rigorous end-of-module testing to ensure thorough understanding of the law

Key modules

  • The importance of record management
  • What is a record
  • What do I have to do
  • Naming folders and files
  • Make and keep records
  • Why do records matter
  • Digitalisation of documents
  • Access to records
  • Record security
  • Ensure records are secure
  • Record destruction
  • Authorisation to dispose of records
  • Methods of destruction

Learning outcomes

By the end of this course, participants will be able to:

  • understand the importance of record management;
  • know how to look after your organisations records to a high standard; and
  • understand how to make and keep secure records.

Duration and Format

Structured Learning

Ideal for first-time learners or those with little prior knowledge, covering the entire topic in 30-40 minutes. 

Accelerated Learning

Allows learners who understand the topic to proceed quickly through the course in 20-30 minutes.

MicroLearns

Short modules for time-poor learners, with each module lasting 5-10 minutes.

ShortBurst

Quick summaries of specific compliance areas, available in office-based and field-based formats, each lasting 5 minutes.

Delivery and Setup

SCORM

Our client services team can deliver our courses via SCORM file if you have a Learning Management System (LMS).

Compliance Platform

Alternatively, you can use our Compliance Platform to house any training material, track policy acceptance, administer surveys, and audits—all in one place. We can get you up and running within a few weeks. 

Related courses

Increase your compliance by bundling our related courses. This ensures you cover multiple topics and legislations for a holistic approach.

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Why Choose Safetrac’s Compliance Courses 

Versatile Course Formats

Options include comprehensive compliance courses and short, bite-sized modules to meet diverse training needs. 

Engaging and Customisable Content

Our courses feature a variety of engaging and animated content, from videos to interactive modules, all of which can be customised based on your branding or designed with specific scenarios tailored to your business. 

Legally Up-to-Date

All content is regularly updated to reflect the latest legislation, ensuring your training remains compliant. 

Flexible Delivery Options

Available via SCORM or our Compliance Platform, with regular updates provided whenever legal changes occur. 

Exceptional Customer Service

Our local Client Services team ensures a smooth setup within a few weeks and offers ongoing support for all your learning and training needs.

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Renowned companies like Uber, Chubb, and David Jones rely on our compliance training solutions.

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