Mobile shredding is shredding taken to another level. Decreasing the number of people who handle your documents before they are destroyed increases security. With fewer eyes to view what is actually on those sheets of paper, there is significantly less of a chance that the minds behind those eyes register the fact that the information has a cash value to it. If they are not in the market for it themselves, they could still sell it. Everyone has a home computer today and times are pretty tough for a lot of folks.
No one wants to think about their trusted employees turning into thieves and scavengers, but the waste baskets inside your office are a goldmine of information for anyone looking to find information on your company, your workers, or your customers. If you’re not shredding documents you are just leaving them around for all to see. Balling them up and throwing them in the waste paper basket is not eliminating the possibility of someone getting their hands on them. It’s making it easier for them.
A shredding company is part of your security team, a partner in a world where you need a professional to handle the destruction of your documents and the recycling of the paper those documents are printed on. PRSS can be that partner you are looking for. Our mobile shredding trucks are the most secure way you will find to dispose of all the paperwork which contains information that can be used to hurt you, your employees, and your customers. You have a legal obligation to protect that information, but it’s also responsible business to pay attention to it.
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( 0 / 0 )What should you shred and what should you archive? Should you separate important documents to be destroyed by the shredding service and just toss everything else in the regular trash bin like you always have before? These are important questions when you are contemplating the hiring of a shredding company. The choices are in your hands and dependent upon the level of work you want to do and whether or not you have the manpower and the budgets to do it.
You are required by California State law to shred any material that has private personal information on it such as social security numbers, bank account numbers, credit card numbers, or other information that can be used for computer hacking or identity theft. These documents are generally used in specific departments so you’ll want to set up “Shred It” boxes in human resources, finance, and credit departments. You’ll also want to go over the guidelines of the law with your employees.
Archiving is usually done electronically now instead of the old fashioned way, which was storing everything in file cabinets. External hard drives and secure online storage facilities are far more space conservative than buying new furniture. Documents that need to be saved can be scanned and then the originals can be discarded after being separated into mandatory shred or not mandatory. It’s time consuming but you will achieve your goals of tighter security by doing it this way.
You could also skip all the sorting and just have PRSS shred all of the paperwork you use in your office. We provide our customers secure containers which they use as waste baskets for paper. When your employees throw paper away, any paper of any level of importance, they can use these bins. Our mobile shredding truck will show up on a regular cycle and empty them into the shredder while we are there. Your intact documentation will never leave the site. It will be shredded and then the shreds will be transported to a recycling facility to be turned into blank sheets of paper again.
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( 0 / 0 )Why is it that your competitors always seem to know what you’re doing before you release it to the general public? Larger corporations just write this off as part of doing business. There is always someone who will say something while having a few drinks, share with their significant other, or mention company information on a phone call to someone else who will pass it on. Security is impossible to maintain when there are large groups of people privy to the information you’re trying to keep secure.
Do you think that someone might be crawling into your dumpster at night to get that information? Is your waste bin or recycling box looking a little emptier in the morning than it was when you left last night? Most businesses don’t have Mission Impossible intrusions in the middle of the night, but dumpster diving and trash picking are real methods of industrial espionage that people do practice. Document shredding eliminates the possibility of them being successful.
You are most vulnerable in your trash. Police officers conducting investigations can go through someone’s trash and find out everything about them. If you put items like cancelled checks, job applications, or credit applications with personal bank account information on them out in the trash, you can expect to have them stolen. As a business in California, you are actually required by law now to destroy those documents by using a shredding service or personal shredding machine. With the service you get a certificate of shredding as proof.
You could buy a big dog and have it watch your dumpster at night, but then you’d have to feed it and it might bite an employee. You could install a fence around the dumpster, but once a thief was over it, the fence would just provide cover for the thievery. Your best bet is to hire a mobile shredding company and have us come to you on a regular basis to pick up and destroy your documents. That way, dumpster diver will get nothing when he jumps in there late at night and anyone in your office raiding waste baskets will be forced to actually work for a living.
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( 0 / 0 )You don’t really want to stand over a shedding machine and hand feed it all of those documents you’re required by law to destroy, do you? You could have a few of your employees do it for you, but do you trust them enough to give them access to your company records, credit applications, bank statements, cancelled checks, and job applications with social security numbers on them? Even the most honest of them might be tempted by the thought of stealing information they can sell or use for identity theft.
Hiring a professional paper shredding service is a solution to the problem. You won’t have to stay late and shred documents yourself in the middle of the night and you won’t have to put your employees in a position where they can compromise your security. You are required by law to shred certain documents and you are legally responsible if the information from those documents gets out and harms the parties it pertains to.
A mobile shredding service is one step better than a stationary service that you have to bring your documents and paperwork to for destruction. By picking up the paperwork slated for shredding, the mobile shredding company eliminates the possibility of those documents being stolen, lost or viewed in transit. This method also cuts down on the number of hands that touch your paperwork and the number of eyes that see it. The last person to actually touch your documents will be the person who works for you who originated or reviewed it. Our people just empty the containers into the shredder.
How much potentially damaging information is contained in the documents that you view every single day? Your human resources department might go through a thousand job applications in the course of a year. Each of them has someone’s social security number, name, address, telephone number, even next of kin information. There is enough data on each of them to apply for credit cards, get new identification, or hack into a personal bank account. To spend someone else’s money, all you need is the tracking and routing numbers from their checking account. Document shredding eliminates the possibility of anyone getting that information from you.
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( 0 / 0 )For centuries now, the way that we have disposed of waste has been simple. Throw it into a trash receptacle of some kind and a waste pick-up or a removal company will come by and get it. Landfills or incinerators will make it disappear and we never have to think about it again. The common belief has always been that as long as we weren’t piling trash in the streets we were being environmentally responsible. Today, we know that is not the case. Landfills contain poisons and toxins that are killing the soil and incinerators are polluting the air and burning off the ozone layer.
Our paper shredding Riverside services include recycling of all of the paper our mobile units shred for you. As a matter of fact, our shredding services in all communities includes recycling, because that is what we do to help control the problems of disposing of waste and conserving our natural resources. As a Green Company and a service provider for the greater Los Angeles area, we know that we need to take some responsibility for our area’s problems and give our clients the option of joining in the effort to help solve them.
Not all shredding services recycle. Many of them don’t even shred on their own premises. They outsource the work to other companies, a security risk to you and a sure bet that your paper isn’t being recycled. There are laws that regulate the shredding of documents with personal information on them, but unfortunately there are none right now that prevent a shredding company from off-loading their workload to someone else. Your documents may be destroyed in good faith, but passing them through that many hands and in front of that many eyes increases the chance of compromise.
To eliminate the possibility of documents being stolen or duplicated by identity thieves and hackers, PRSS has created a disposal system that ensures the fewest number of people will handle your paperwork before shredding. We provide you with secure bins to put it in and then we send a mobile shredding truck to destroy it for you at your location. Your document will go from the hand of the person who printed or perused it last for you directly into our shedding truck for destruction and recycling soon after that.
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