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…
With over 30 years of experience, here are Ardington Archive’s Top 10 Tips for considering the Environment when archiving documents: Only archive the necessary documents, not the packaging such as lever arch, hanging and box files. Before archiving information, take…
For obvious reasons, few of us spend much time thinking about a cardboard box. However, since nearly every business will use a cardboard box on a daily basis, perhaps a few words on the subject might be in order. Early history…
