With so much emphasis being put on security both in terms of our identity and our finances it is important to ensure that every effort is made to make the identity thief’s job as difficult as possible.

One way of doing this is to shred all documents that may contain confidential information that is held by your company and which may allow the identity thief to build up a picture of your clients, either as individuals or families.

The latest estimates state that identity fraud alone costs the UK over £1.7 billion a year. If you think about the amount of paper documents that contain sensitive personal information your company collects over a year you soon realise that you must now take the disposal of these documents seriously to avoid an attack on your identity.

Why Shred Your Documents?

Simply throwing receipts, statements, bills and other financial documents away is now simply unthinkable. Office based businesses have known for decades that properly destroying their most sensitive documents is part of good business practice. Today, paper shredders have moved out of the office and into the home.

The shredder simply makes the sensitive documents you would have previously thrown away very difficult to read any meaningful information. The resulting waste can then be thrown away or recycled safe in the knowledge that all the information that the documents did contain, has been effectively destroyed.

Industrial shredders are designed to cut multiple pages in one pass. Shredders aimed at the home office market are also now capable of cutting multiple sheets. Many of the most advanced shredders can cut six or more A4 pieces of paper in one pass through the shredder. If you have a large number of pages to shred, this feature can be a great bonus.

Criminals need very little information to steal an identity. With a National Insurance number they can apply for credit cards, mobile phones, loans, bank accounts, apartments and utility accounts.

Bins hold a plethora of information. Once personal details or account numbers hits the rubbish, the identity is floating among the refuse, just waiting to be stolen. Shredding is a minimal inconvenience and minor expense compared to its alternative - becoming an identity theft victim.

The disposal rule offers business owners a few choices. They must burn, pulverize or shred paper documents and completely erase or destroy all electronic media. Or, they can contract a third-party information-destruction company.

All businesses, organisations, healthcare providers, professionals and individuals have confidential documents that must be discarded. Customers lists, patient files, credit card receipts, price lists, sales statistics, drafts of bids and correspondence, and even memos, contain information about your activities which would be of interest to many people. You are entrusted with information that must be kept private. Employees, customers and patients have the legal right to have this data protected.

Without the proper safeguards, information ends up in the bin where it is readily available to anybody. The dustbin is considered by business espionage professionals as the single most available source of competitive and private information from the average business. Any establishment that discards private and proprietary data without the benefit of shredding, exposes itself to the risk of criminal and civil prosecution, as well as the costly loss of business.

Should you or your company be considering moving to new premises, this is a good time to clean up your files. But you should not just discard any old or unwanted files. They need to be shredded for security purposes. You or your company need to consider the period of time that business records are This should be determined by a retention schedule that takes into consideration their useful value to the business and the governing legal requirements. No record should be kept longer than this retention period.

To shred confidential waste takes an employee several hours to try and do the identical task that an Datashredders can do in minutes. Their state-of-the-art shredding equipment is meant to destroy 100% of all materials to an unidentifiable, unrecognisable degree, guaranteed. You’ll be able to use Datashredders mobile document shredding services while not disrupting your business at all. Outsourcing to Datashredders means there’s no equipment to shop for and it frees up your staff to work on more profitable tasks.

Shredding service

Your company should purchase Datashredders mobile shredding service, this will take care of the destruction of confidential info in the most secure manner possible - at your premises. This means you’ll be able to witness the shredding of your confidential waste on-web site so guaranteeing that no fabric leaves your premises in a whole state. You will also be given a Certificate of Destruction at the end of every visit from Datashredders mobile document shredding team which can offer your company added peace of mind. This enables you to keep your own records of your company’s shredded waste and the frequency of shredding services.

When adopting Datashredders mobile document shredding service it means that your confidential documents stay just that - confidential. The protection and privacy of your confidential waste begins the moment they’re deposited into your supplied bin or cabinet. Datashredders mobile paper shredding company will provide a site visit to determine how many bins you are likely need at your site and you’ll choose from a choice of containers - from large volume bins to wood office cabinets. You will hold a master key, as Datashredders, who can simply take away and shred your confidential waste quickly and efficiently when delivering their shredding services. The Datashredders document shredding team should be professional and versatile to your needs and will aim to deliver a service that meets your expectations.

Datashreddeers provide assurances that the employees handling the on-site paper shredding service have been CRB checked and that each individual has signed a confidentiality agreement. It should be obvious from the livery of our visiting van that you are dealing with the company you have the agreement with and it is very important that each employee will be wearing their ID badge. You want complete peace of mind, to be secure in the fact that your sensitive data has been shredded and is no longer possible for anyone to read them.