Whilst many businesses are moving away from paper dependency, for instance by digitizing their paper archives, there will, for the foreseeable future, be a need for paper documents. Many of these documents may carry confidential information, personal or financial details pertaining to customers, for example.
Especially when we’re talking about so called confidential shredding, you’ll need to be careful that you’re complying with the Data Protection Act. This means that you need to destroy paper documents after a certain amount of time. With this in mind, confidential shredding of sensitive documents could help you avoid some nasty fines.
Without document shredding, which destroys sensitive data held on paper completely, then you might not only risk a fine for your non compliance with the Data Protection Act, but you could also expose your customers and clients, and your own business, to data theft. Theft of data is a real problem these days, and it is your duty to ensure sensitive data doesn’t fall into the wrong hands.
What happens to shredded paper? If you choose a high quality document shredding company then they’ll probably recycle your shredded documents 100%. One of the reasons why businesses are becoming less paper dependent is for environmental reasons, and using a shredding company chimes with this.
So, by shredding documents you are solving a few problems that might otherwise bite your business in the ankles at some point in the future.
