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Message: <blockquote data-quote="okietom" data-source="post: 2576278" data-attributes="member: 18710">If the instructors mailed in copies of the completed certificates the OSBI could scan them and save them. I worked for a company that made data storage products for 22 years. It always baffled me that we had to keep paper copies of safety and quality documents. It wasn't until the last nine or ten years that we actually started using digital forms and storing them digitally. The last eight years I worked there we were making archival data storage tapes for companies to store records with. Those tapes were more reliable than discs and hard drives for data storage. All of those records could be kept in digital format for decades and not take up very much space. The record retention excuse for this law is bogus. If ISO certification and the IRS requires records be kept for years in corporations there is no reason the OSBI could not keep the SDA documents for at least seven years and twenty would be no big chore either.</blockquote>