7 Facts You Need to Know About Shredding Documents
Today, we’re sharing the 7 facts we believe all businesses should know when it comes to shredding documents.
The largest majority of identity theft and fraud is tied back to paper information. This could be anything from lost wallets to paper mail, or anything taken from garbage’s. Recent statistics even show that paper records make up for 1 in 5 data breaches.
2. Garbage is considered to be public property if it’s found on the curb: identity thieves love this.
3. It’s not only that document shredding is important for your own safety, it’s also the law. As a business, you are required to build privacy practices and properly dispose of any private information regarding both customers and employees. An important practice involves continuously destroying any outdated or confidential information within your business. We always remind our clients to ensure they securely shred any documents that they no longer require.
4. Shredding isn’t limited to paper. If there’s staples, rubber bands, binder clips, or hanging file folders with your paper stacks - there’s no need to remove these when using an industrial shredder.
5. Advanced document shredding machines like our own produce paper pieces measuring at 3 mm x 8 mm.
6. Always ask for a Certificate of Destruction from your shredding company. This will guarantee your sensitive documents were completely destroyed, according to the highest standards in the industry.
7. Many businesses don’t realize that outsourcing your shredding is incredibly cost effective: When considering employee wages and benefits and also factor in depreciation and maintenance costs for any equipment, it can cost more than $100 per month month to operate your office shredder.
More so, professional paper shredding removes the time-consuming need for employees to complete timely document disposal tasks, taking away from other productivity.
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