Is it Healthy to use SharePoint to Store Safety and Compliance Training Records? Yes and No.
Blog PostsWhen delivering training for health and safety reasons or for compliance with regulations, it’s usual to document that people have been through training, so that if something goes wrong, you have proof of the training. To quote the US OSHA (www.osha.gov/Publications/osha2254.pdf): Documentation can also supply an answer to one of the first questions an accident investigator will ask: “Was the injured employee trained to do the job?
SharePoint seems a reasonable place to store documentation of training, either to scan in any paper attendance or completion forms, or else if training is conducted online to use SharePoint list and record-keeping details to get the employee to confirm that they have received the training. If it’s stored in SharePoint, it will be retained with other data and accessible into the long term future, and so the initial answer to the question seems a “yes”.