Maximising Office Space: The Benefits of Off-Site Document Storage In the business world today, maximising office space has become a common challenge. Many organisations, from manufacturing companies to legal firms and public organisations, are constantly juggling the need for more…
Why Off-Site Document Storage is a Game-Changer for ALL Industries In today’s fast-paced business environment, managing a growing volume of documents presents significant challenges. From legal files and scientific research data to manufacturing records and government documents, businesses across various…
How Can Archiving Help Your Business Avoid Risk One of the key elements of good archiving practice is to ensure that the information being archived is completely safe from all possible risks ensuring that you reduce business risk.It is unquestionably…
At Ardington Archives we utilise Argonite fire suppression systems in our Argonite Pods and BS 4971 Vaults, where we store our clients’ most sensitive and business-critical documents. But just what is this mysterious substance? In brief, the name ‘Argonite’ is…
During the Covid pandemic, many companies had to quickly review the way they operated, allowing maximum flexibility in staff operations to ensure business continuity whilst maintaining the safety and health of employees. Government guidance was to work from home where…
Understanding GxP and how we help you be GxP compliant The term GxP Compliant is frequently used to refer in a general way to a collection of quality guidelines and regulations. An abbreviation for Good Practice quality guidelines, the “x”…
History The history of barcodes stretches back to 1948 when Bernard Silver, a graduate student at Drexel Institute of Technology in Philadelphia, overheard the boss of a local food chain asking one of the deans to research a system to…
Long-term storage of trial master files (TMF). Recent changes to the European Medicines Agency’s (EMA) guidance require that Trial Master File (TMF) data is kept in an accessible and readable format for a minimum period of 25 years. As such,…
An early prediction of the paperless office came in a Business Week article in 1975, describing the office of the future. The idea was that with the introduction of PCs on every desk, paper would become redundant for routine tasks such as…
Over recent months there have been two high profile data breaches by the Ministry of Defence, highlighting the importance of compliant data protection procedures and the consequences when these are not followed. The first instance relates to the locations of…
