Shred on Site

It is likely that your business, like many, produces a number of private documents on a regular basis. This can include anything from personal customer details to bank details, as well as pay-slips and in-house transactions. How you deal with these is important, as it is vital to make sure that your business is compliant with UK legislation about data protection. Without doing this, your business could face serious legal implications.

Proper disposal of confidential information is important but also a legal requirement in the UK. Failure to do this sufficiently can result in severe penalties, damage to your company name and reputation and ultimately loss of business due to this. This means that shredding should be a regular part of your business’ disposal strategy. So what options are there for you?

There is no denying that there are many benefits to shredding your confidential business waste. Not only does it maintain your security at a legal level of compliance, but it also is an efficient way to dispose of these documents. Recycling may also be a key value for your business, and with mobile shredding, you can combine the two.

Even in the digital age that we live in, most businesses will have a number of physical documents that contain secure information. This can include anything such as letters addressed to them, customer or staff information. If this isn’t kept secure, or destroyed properly, then the risk of fraud, identity theft and other complications occurs. To protect their information effectively, businesses should ensure regular shredding of all of these documents.

It’s that time of year again and the office is getting quieter and quieter as colleagues book holiday and customers begin to think about shutting shop for the Festive period.

Every business in the UK holds sensitive information – whether this is customer or staff data. Such documents include financial information or personal details such as names and addresses. Leaving this information open to public access is not only a problem, but will leave the company open to legal issues due to lack of compliance with UK laws which require the security of such documents

The UK use a total of 12.5 million tonnes of paper every single year. This uses a huge amount of energy and produces CO2, harming our environment. With businesses reducing their carbon footprint by allowing their shredded documents to go on to be recycled can dramatically reduce this, saving paper from going into landfill where more greenhouse gases are produced.

More and more businesses are adopting the practice of on-site paper shredding. For legal compliance and protecting secure customer and staff information, keeping information confidential is an essential part of business. Mobile shredding using a trusted company is becoming the norm, as it takes up less critical time, and provides an assurance of sufficient disposal. You can leave shredding in the hands of a professional company and receive the benefits of allowing them to take care of your secure data, so that you don’t have to spend time in-house manually shredding each document.

Often organisations of all sizes can overlook the issue of security without considering the implications. From theft, to more serious issues, confidentiality is crucial to protect both your customer and in-house data. Security will also give customers a reason to trust and rely on you over some of your competitors. Here are just a few ways to increase your security through on-site shredding.

Secure document destruction through on-site shredding keeps your private customer and business information safe. It ensures a confidential disposal of your data on-site giving you confidence that you are in full compliance with the Dara Protection Act. But as well as this, confidential paper shredding has huge environmental benefits to help your business play their part and be greener.