AUDIT AND ACCOUNTABILITY

Ensuring ownership, measuring compliance

Audit and Accountability could be viewed as the two “bookends” of records management. When designing your program, you want to build in accountability, so there is clear ownership of records management responsibilities throughout the organization.

Once the program is in place, you require robust audit capabilities so you can:

• Demonstrate your good faith and monitor progress toward compliance
• Continually strengthen accountability by measuring corporate, business unit, and individual performance against key metrics
• Ease the burden of responding to external audits and regulatory assessments

If you’re struggling, Iron Mountain can help

Unfortunately, many organizations struggle with the key best practice of Audit and Accountability. In an industry-wide survey conducted by Iron Mountain of nearly 2,000 organizations, 36% of companies reported they did no compliance monitoring at all or had procedures in place that were not functional. Another 28% reported inconsistent monitoring. Read more of this exclusive study’s results.

Iron Mountain can help ensure that every employee in your organization takes ownership of his or her role as defined by your Policies and Procedures.  We can also help you build an audit infrastructure and establish audit metrics to help meet regulatory obligations and continually improve your records management program.

How would your records management program perform in an audit? Find out by participating in an Iron Mountain Risk Assessment.