Paper Shredding

Is there really a need for a paper shredding company in your line of business? There might be. Paper shredding is done for several reasons. Let's look at those reasons and then let's assess your company's risk regarding your current methods of document management, security and destruction.

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Many offices use a paper shredder. Many offices have a policy about the shredding of documents that are confidential but many offices don't have the ability to really police this policy and ensure that the documents that need to be destroyed are actually destroyed.

There are government requirements in some areas like the medical information area. You may also be required by law to carefully dispose of employee information and you might want to be very careful with your company's own financial records. Information in the wrong hands could significantly harm your business.

Some companies leave it to employees to use the office shredder and others have special bins for confidential information and have someone internally manage that process. The documents are shredded on a regular basis and then taken off to a recycling facility. IN many cases, the documents that were shredded are left at the curb or beside the dumpster where anyone passing by can access them. You might think that they won't be able to get vary far with shredded documents but you might be surprised at just how easy it would be to reassemble documents. Take a long report that's perforated for instance. The report goes through the machine all at once and the vertical paper shreds all end up in the same bag. The bag is filled and tied. The shreds are not really jostled around nor mixed up. It's not that difficult to imagine a thief with a lot to gain going through that information and being able to piece together valuable pieces of information such as bank account and credit card numbers.

This may seem far fetched but it happens regularly and this has created the need for more aggressive ways of destroying documents. A mobile on site paper shredding company uses equipment that doesn't turn the paper into long and straight strips. Their equipment annihilates each piece of paper beyond recognition. In fact, it can even handle staplers and paper clips as well.

Staff used to supervise the process are trained to ensure that your documents are destroyed and that this is done with a high degree of security which might be necessary for you and might even be the legal requirement depending on the type of information you are shredding and depending on your industry as well.

If you see holes in your existing policies with respect to data security and shredding of confidential and / or sensitive information, it might be time for you to discuss your situation with a paper shredding company.