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Procedure Title: Archives Procedure: Destruction of Records in Storage  
Procedure Number: DHS-050-005-03
Version:
1.0
Effective Date:
12/06/2006

Approved By: DHS Chief Administrative Officer
Approved Date: 12/06/2006


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Procedure

Step

Responsible Party

Action

1.

DHS Archive Specialist

Periodically monitor database and destruction logs for records that need to be destroyed.

2. Make a detailed listing of the boxes to be destroyed per customer.  Title the list by customer and itemize each box by listing each box by number 1 through …  until all boxes have been listed. 
3.

Write down the information from each label.

* Note: descriptions (abbreviate if possible), dates, box numbers, and accession numbers and destruction dates. 

4.

Contact Garten Services to arrange for a pickup date and time to have records picked up for destruction.

* Note: “Destruction” is understood to be the shredding of paper archives and the incinerating of Microfilm or recording tape archives.  
5. Place up to as many as 5-box high stacks on a pallet, stacking boxes securely.
6. Shrink-wrap the entire pallet securely for shipping.
7. Fill out a Garten Services Records Destruction Services Receipt/Certificate, writing in the information requested in the gray shaded area only.
8. Take the hand written list(s), the E-list(s) and staple together with the Garten Services pink copy/receipt. 
9. File in a Destruction folder labeled with the current year.
10. Enter Destruction information into the database.

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