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Records and Information Management Awareness

Records and Information Management Awareness

A practical introduction to everyday recordkeeping for Australian workplaces. Learn what turns a document into a record, how to capture, name and version your work so it can be found again, where records may and may not be stored, how long the law says you must keep things, how disposal is authorised and what changes the moment a legal hold or an information-access request arrives, as paced slides with diagrams, a workplace decision scenario, quick self-checks and notes on how records law differs across states and territories.

Also relevant for: Office and Professional

About 35 minutes100% online, self-pacedSix months of access

What You Will Learn

  • Distinguish a record that must be captured and kept from ephemeral working material
  • Explain why records matter for evidence, accountability, information access and legal proceedings
  • Describe everyday capture, naming, metadata and version-control practice and how they apply to your own work
  • Describe how retention periods and disposal authorities decide when a record may be destroyed
  • Recognise a legal hold or a disposal freeze and know what to do when one applies to your records

Course Content

Final Assessment: 10 questions, 80% pass mark, retakes available

Who This Course Is For

Office, administrative, project and government staff who create, receive, file, store or dispose of documents, email and messages as part of their work, including managers, records and information staff, finance, HR and contract roles.

Written by Kam Askari, Managing Director of Creative Directions Management Consulting Pty Ltd, ISO 9001, ISO 14001 and ISO 45001 Lead Auditor. MBA, Graduate Diploma in Occupational Health and Safety, MAICD. Checked against the sources listed below.

Sources and Legal References

Always rely on the current version on the regulator’s website.

Accreditation: This is a non-accredited awareness course. It provides general information about Australian recordkeeping law and good practice and is not legal advice. It is not a substitute for your organisation's own records management policy, your approved retention and disposal schedules or advice from your records manager, your archives authority or a lawyer on a specific matter.
$39.00
inc GST

Seven day refund if you have not started

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$39.00 per seat, inc GST

Total inc GST$195.00

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Records and Information Management Awareness

All learning modules and the final assessment

16 September 2026Date of issue
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This is a certificate of completion of a non-accredited professional development course. It is not a nationally recognised qualification, a VET statement of attainment, a competency card, a licence, or evidence of competency. It is issued by Creative Directions Management Consulting Pty Ltd, which is not a Registered Training Organisation.

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