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How secure document shredding helps your business to comply with UK legislation

Protection for your business

Your business will no doubt produce many documents containing sensitive information, such as bank statements and employee payslips. In fact, it is common practice within most businesses that almost all staff members will print confidential documents daily.

This, however, has the potential to cause problems if not handled properly. Data in the wrong hands could lead to security costs of potentially millions of pounds, poor credit ratings, and a loss of trust between your business and your customers. There is the risk of not only exposing creative ideas and business strategies to your competitors, as well as revealing staff and supplier information to those looking to expose the information.

With corporate fraud and identity theft as the fastest growing crimes in the UK, it is essential for your business to make sure that you are doing all you can to protect your confidential documents and uphold all legal requirements surrounding them.

The Law

Compliance UK legislation aims to protect consumers and businesses against fraud, and it is being updated regularly to make sure that it does. UK law states that every business is trusted to keep information private, and customers and employees are entitled to their information being kept completely safe and confidential. Failure to do so is breaking the law, and can result in severe penalties for your business, up to £500,000.

How Shred-on-Site can help

The only guaranteed way to fully protect your business against fraud is to implement a secure document destruction method. Your list of documents considered confidential may seem endless, but your shredding process needn’t be. Shred-on-Site uses approved mobile shredding vehicles to deliver a secure and mobile document shredding service to your business, which follow all requirements from the Data Protection Act and all European and Government Regulations. Shred-on-Site take the time to understand the document destruction and privacy legislation in every region to ensure that we can take care of your document security, so you are able to focus on your business.

Using state-of-the-art technology, we are able to shred not only paper documents, but media including hard disks and hard drives, all of which are destroyed in an environmentally-friendly way. All waste is recycled through our network, and re-purposed. Our secure shredding takes care of all of your documents to make sure that you keep all UK laws and do not incur significant cost to your business.

To find out more about how we can assist your business in complying with UK secure document disposal legislation, contact Shred-on-Site today.

Author: Mark Coombes - Follow me on 

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