Buried Alive.Buried bur·y tr.v. bur·ied, bur·y·ing, bur·ies 1. To place in the ground: bury a bone. 2. a. To place (a corpse) in a grave, a tomb, or the sea; inter. b. Alive Buried Alive is an actual case study focusing on document retention. The video is important to anyone who creates, saves, or destroys documents. In this study, an organization is defending itself against legal action, and the video focuses on the need for complying with document retention plans and schedules. Each segment effectively dramatizes the impact of improper
Viewers are reminded that information takes many different forms and is stored on all kinds of media, especially paper. Managing the retention of these documents can make the difference between staying on top and being buried. The purpose of the video is to point out how important having and following a document retention policy is. The tape focuses mainly on procedures for paper retention as opposed to computer media storage and retention. The objective of creating a retention policy is to clean up unnecessary records, free up space, and make retention and retrieval more effective. In this company, a good system reduced the cost of document storage and the time employees spent searching for specific documents. Viewers are reminded continuously to follow a retention policy by the book and stay on schedule because of the cost of storing excess records. The tape suggests employees take the following steps: * Don't be a "just-in-case" document saver. * retain and destroy systematically. * Segregate seg·re·gate v. seg·re·gat·ed, seg·re·gat·ing, seg·re·gates v.tr. 1. To separate or isolate from others or from a main body or group. See Synonyms at isolate. 2. records according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. the retention timetable. * Retain only for legal, operational, or archival needs. * Don't retain unscheduled unscheduled Adjective not planned or intended Adj. 1. unscheduled - not scheduled or not on a regular schedule; "an unscheduled meeting"; "the plane made an unscheduled stop at Gander for refueling" temporary materials like drafts, reminder notes, worksheets, or extra copies. In this case, improperly im·prop·er adj. 1. Not suited to circumstances or needs; unsuitable: improper shoes for a hike; improper medical treatment. 2. retained records preserved a trail of ambiguous language, opinions, criticism, and remarks that were turned into evidence against the organization. Viewers learn from these mistakes that wording should accurately reflect an organization's concern with ethics ethics, in philosophy, the study and evaluation of human conduct in the light of moral principles. Moral principles may be viewed either as the standard of conduct that individuals have constructed for themselves or as the body of obligations and duties that a and compliance with laws, safety, and proper practices. This video clearly depicts the consequences of accumulating excess documents or destroying documents haphazardly. |
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