This presentation describes Keeping Research Data Safe (KRDS) a model, method and survey for assessing the institutional costs for managing and looking after research data. It was given as part of module 2 of a 5-module course on digital preservation tools for repository managers, presented by the JISC KeepIt project. For more on this and other presentations in this course look for the tag 'KeepIt course' in the project blog http://blogs.ecs.soton.ac.uk/keepit/