ISO 15489 is designed to provide guidance on records management practice in all place of creating records and this outlines records management policies, procedure and process to ensure accountable and responsible administration in organizations. As th...
ISO 15489 is designed to provide guidance on records management practice in all place of creating records and this outlines records management policies, procedure and process to ensure accountable and responsible administration in organizations. As the importance of records management has been increasing, this ISO 15489 was introduced as a standard to govern records management in many countries and Korea also introduced ISO 15489 in 2003 and adopted as national standards with title of KS X ISO 15489.
Even though there has been given the efforts for more standardized and systemized records management through ISO 15489, there are not any valuation standard or supporting to judge whether the actual records management are done well or not. The introduction of ISO 15489 as certified standard system will bring institutional condition to value the records management.
For this, this paper took the ISO 9000 and ISO 14000, the representative standards globally, as case studies to find out introduction background, procedure and required conditions to introduce ISO 15489 as a certification standard system and lastly to list what should be done ahead of the introduction.
What should be solved before introduction of ISO 15489 is raising recognition, preparation of regulation system and organization of system in this paper. Also reviewed issues in each subject and tried to collect and analyze data through qualitative methodology for setting up strategy and specific subjects. Through interviews with specialists in standardization and records management, that is partly controlled and reviewed multi laterally the issues related with introduction.
Currently, every certified standard system is based on Industrial Standardization Act and ISO 9000 and ISO 14000 are also required to certify based on each supporting regulation. ISO 15489 also should establish the supporting regulation including clauses of certification on records management. Also in constitution of a organization, should operate according to certification organization system of ISO9000 and ISO 14000. At this time, ISO 15489 is needed to be considered or call to mind that ISO 15489 is records management standard. For this, raising recognition about ISO 15489 certification and records management itself should be ahead.