What is it?

As the majority of regulators do not look back further than 5 years when auditing an organization, and in an effort to keep SMS Pro as affordable as possible,  we will retain all of your attachment files for a period of 5 years, after which they are permanently deleted from the server. The file retention period can be changed to up to ten years.  This policy will go into effect January 5th, 2024.

What items are affected by this File Retention Policy?

  • Audit supporting documentation attachments
  • Audit question attachments
  • CPA attachments
  • Duty Log attachments
  • ECCAIRS attachments
  • Emergency Drill attachments
  • FRAT uploads
  • Goals and Objectives attachments
  • Issue Attachments
  • Issue Audit attachments
  • Meeting Agenda Summaries
  • Meeting attachments
  • Meeting Minutes
  • Message-Board attachments
  • Management of Change attachments
  • PHAT Hazard attachments
  • Safety Case attachments
  • Secure-Workflow report attachments

This policy will be effective January 5th, 2024.   By request, attachment files can be downloaded before this period to store in a company location.  Contact techsupport@nwds-ak.com to make this request.