State Records NSW

The New South Wales Government's Archives and Records Management Authority


Create and Capture - Guidelines on better recordkeeping

Section 3. Strategies for promoting record creation and capture
This section of the guidelines discusses strategies by which you can help to ensure record creation and capture is adequately undertaken within your organisation. Not all strategies will be applicable to all organisations. The decision about which strategies to use will ultimately depend on 'what will work for you' given the culture and requirements of your workplace. However, whichever strategies you adopt, you should aim to make record creation and capture as easy as possible for the staff of your organisation.

A range of practical tools are provided in Section 4 to support implementation of the strategies.

3.1 Communicate to staff their responsibility to make and keep records
3.2 Refer to record creation and capture in records management policies and procedures
3.3 Design systems and processes to require or encourage record creation and capture
3.4 Integrate records management with other business strategies
3.5 Be aware of outsourcing or other workplace arrangements
3.6 Promote the value of records