Don’t Put Your Organization at Risk: 5 Reasons Why to Use Our Shredding Service

1. Discarded paper shreds only tell the bad guys what to take.
   The shredded material from your office shredder is fairly easy to put back together. Software is available specifically for the purpose of recreating these documents. If your shredded documents are just thrown away with the rest of the garbage, you are simply showing the bad guys what to take!


2. Office shredders can cost twice as must as a shredding service.
   Think about this: the average small office spends 15 minutes of personnel time each day on document shredding. When you take into account wages and benefits for your staff, as well as, depreciation and maintenance of the shredder, it costs at least $95.00 per month to shred with your office shredder. Our scheduled routine services start at about half of this cost. Click here to learn more.


3. Employees shouldn’t be responsible for shredding their own information.
   Isn’t it common sense that lower level employees shouldn’t be tasked with destroying sensitive payroll and labor related information? Do you want a disgruntled employee to be able to take your proprietary information to the competition? The better solution is to thoughtfully select a secure paper shredding service and get the job done right. Click here to learn about our scheduled routine services and on-call one-time document shredding purges.


4. Office shredders are a safety hazard.
   In the last five years there have been reports of more than 50 injuries resulting from the use of office shredders, including lacerations and lost fingers. While these incidents are isolated, office shredders have sharp blades that can injure someone if they're not careful.


5. Don’t become vulnerable in an Audit or Lawsuit.
   Document shredding, in and of itself, provides no record of compliance. Participating in our scheduled routine service shows that you are not arbitrarily picking what needs to be destroyed before an audit or lawsuit. In the event of a privacy violation, audit or complaint, you may be asked to produce proof of destruction. Shred One Security Corp. provides a certificate of destruction for your records. Click here to view a sample certificate of destruction.

Documents should not be saved beyond their legal retention period. Most documents have legal retention periods ranging from one to seven years (retention periods will vary depending upon the type of document.) View Records Retention Schedule

Shredding documents after the expiration of their retention period will save your company valuable space and storage charges. It will also guarantee that sensitive information contained in those documents will not be exposed to unauthorized individuals.