Shred on Site

There are many factors to consider when running a business, and this includes ensuring that the data you collect and the information that you use is secure and safe. One method of helping to ensure that this is the case is the use of paper shredding.

While it is possible to conduct paper shredding yourself, within your organisation, this is not necessarily the best choice. Mobile document shredding is more convenient, can cost less than employing somebody to complete all of your shredding in-house, and it does ensure the integrity of all the data that you collect over the lifetime of your business.

Environmentally Friendly

Every business is pushed into being more environmentally friendly. This means recycling as many items as possible, while reducing the size of your carbon footprint. Burning waste paper may be secure, but it is far from being environmentally friendly.

Shredding paper is much more friendly to the environment. Once it has been shredded, the paper can be removed and taken away to a recycling plant where it will usually be converted into paper once again.

Secure For Clients

Of course, the biggest benefit of document shredding is that it is a secure option for disposing of paper documents. Until businesses become truly paper free, there will always be a need for printing documents, and this means that there will always be data and important information found on waste paper that should not fall into the hands of data thieves.

Data thieves can profit and benefit greatly if they get hold of certain information pertaining to your clients and customers. No matter what type of business you run, there will almost certainly be some sensitive information that you collect about your customers and paper shredding enables you to dispose of this quickly and easily.

Secure For Employees

It isn’t just your clients’ data that you need to protect either. It is your responsibility to ensure the security, as well as the safety, of your employees. You will no doubt collect a large amount of data on everybody within your organisation, and this means that you will have a lot of data that you need to dispose of too.

Mobile document shredding can be used to dispose of account data, employment data, and any other data that you hold on your employees. Not only could you lose money having employee data stolen, but it would impact on employee morale and leave your business facing an uphill struggle to attract the best talent for open positions.

Secure For Your Business

The business itself also needs protecting. Losing data means losing reputation. Customers will be less inclined to want to share data with you, and this means that they are more likely to look elsewhere in order to find a company that can protect them while also servicing their contracts. Document shredding enables you to securely dispose of everything from business accounts to information specific to your organisation that could be used to harm you.

The Convenient Option

There are surprisingly few options, when it comes to the disposal of waste paper. Buying a shredder, that can tear through piles of documents, and perform the most secure cross hatch cut, is expensive; especially when you include the cost of paying somebody in your organisation to do the shredding for you.

Document shredding services are more convenient. You don’t need to set time aside to shred paperwork, and you don’t need to find the room in which to place your new shredding machine. Meanwhile, you will be able to protect the data belonging to your organisation, your clients, and your employees without having to pay the earth. 

Author: Mark Coombes, Follow me on Google+