An Internet Policy for Your Employees

7. Your Own Website

Use your policy to help make sure your website runs smoothly.

7.1 Nominate an individual to be responsible for your website.

• Set out how other employees and any contractors will be involved.

7.2 Put appropriate technical standards and controls in place. For example:

• Control how the site is updated. Only allow authorised employees to update the site.
• Set limits on the size of files you put on your website. Excessively large files will slow down access to your site.

7.3 Do not infringe other people's intellectual property rights.

7.4 Make sure all employees understand their responsibility for the website.

• Let employees know if they are responsible for keeping any material up to date. Make this a performance review issue.
• Encourage all employees to be aware of what information is carried on the site and what services are offered.