3 Reasons Secure Shredding Will Save Your Company
Right now, someone is attempting to take advantage of the lack of secure shredding procedures at your company to make a quick dollar.
To keep the trust of your clients, you need to focus on privacy and data protection which is under constant attack. Hackers, black market data sellers, and corporate espionage specialists are constantly on the look out for misplaced data.
Air tight data destruction measures are essential. During the course of a regular business day, documents are thrown away that have the potential to create havoc within a business or individual clients.
Think about it.
Are you guilty of throwing any of these into a trash can? Bids, business plans, receipts, invoices, customer lists, personnel information, hard drives, memory cards, computers, or bank records? You're putting a lot at risk if you're throwing any of these into the trash. The ability to get a certificate of destruction gives you more than piece of mind. It gives you proof of document destruction if there is ever a question of liability brought against you.
Fortune 500 companies are becoming increasingly aware of their responsibility to protect privacy information and are taking the necessary steps by implementing secure shredding and recycling programs. Consolidation substantially reduces the risk of confidential information reaching the public domain, and reduces a company’s liability.
Secure Shredding Services and Advantages
Secure Shredding Services are the most popular and air tight measures a company can adopt in order to protect themselves from such risks.
Here are the first 3 of 6 reasons why implementing professional secure shredding and recycling services are recommended:
1. To be on the Safe Side of the Law
Modern company law places emphasis on confidential agreements, and non-disclosure statements. Breach of these can prove very detrimental to a company in terms of liability.
Playing it safe, and destroying all confidential waste materials is the smart move here to keep your company out of the courtroom. Because these services typically offer a flat rate, you won't have to choose between which documents to shred and which ones to trust to the trash can. Shred it all!
One more thought... Have you looked at your local laws about what hardware you can throw in the trash? Office electronics and hardware require specific disposal in order to stay in compliance with the law. This story in USA Today highlights the importance of checking before you throw it: Electronic Hardware Disposal Laws
2. Secure and Professional Handling of Delicate Information from Data Destruction Experts
Professional shredding companies can assist a company in achieving data security as their experience and policy obligates them to handle every with caution. Chances are your employees are not going to give every document that crosses their desk the same kind of attention that a paid company would.
The shredder's business depends on your security. That equals skin in the game, and peace of mind for you.
3. Save Man Power Resources and Money
Here's some simple math:
The average office of 100 workers will spend a combined total time of 16.67 hours (that's 10 minutes per worker if they're shredding everything that they should be shredding), devoted to individuals shredding their own documents. If we use a low hourly wage, this is what you're spending per week.
How does it cost you for your employees to do all of the shredding?
16.67 Hrs of Shredding x $17.50 Hourly Wage = $291.73/ week
More importantly, these documents are still not safe as they are then set out as trash or recycling that can be easily recovered by the wrong people. Not only are you spending too much time shredding your own documents... You're risking your business. The question here isn't how much can you save. The question is how much can you afford to risk?
Then again, you might be surprised how much you can save, and still be safe with a secure shredding option.
Are you currently using a shredding service? If not, what concerns do you have about getting started?