Mobile shredding is one of the best ways to combat theft of documents in transit. Using the PRSS system, you can place your paperwork directly into one of our secure containers inside your office and then forget about it. That is the last time that any of those documents will see the light of day. Containers are emptied directly into our shredding trucks and then the shreds are sent out for recycling.
The shredding Los Angeles businesses request from us has to be secure. Many of them are bound by law to destroy records with customer and client information on them. The responsibility for the confidentiality of that information lies with the company that collects it. Even a certificate of shredding doesn’t exempt them from legal action because many shredding companies outsource work. Some companies don’t even shred at their own location, never mind send a mobile truck to do it at yours.
Your security and the integrity of your records are dependent upon those who handle your documentation. If less hands and eyes are coming in contact with sensitive data contained in your files, there will be less chances of one of those people being dishonest and stealing that information. Identity theft is responsible for the loss of millions of consumer dollars every year and there are quite a few unscrupulous individuals out there making a lot of money off it. By limiting the number of stops your paperwork has to make before destruction you can help stop some of that from happening.
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( 0 / 0 )As a local business owner or manager you can share in the benefits of mobile shredding Pasadena companies just like yours take advantage of every day. All of those documents which you are legally obligated to shred, the job applications, credit forms, survey cards, and invoices with personal information on them, can go into our mobile shredding trucks and disappear forever. Even better, the paper that they are printed on will show up again as recycled reams that saved a few trees from getting cut down.
The benefits of shredding are clear to anyone who has had to deal with the accumulated mess of months and years of records piling up in a storeroom or filling up file cabinets throughout the office. It always seems that there should be an easier way, particularly in this age of technology that allows us to duplicate and miniaturize everything. There is. Scan anything you need a copy of and have our shredding service get rid of all the originals for you. If you are legally obligated to destroy the original without making an electronic copy, then do it. You don’t need it anyway.
You can also get rid of any of the paper documents that you usually throw in the waste paper basket to be taken away by the regular disposal service. Instead of worrying about separating paper, just have all of it placed into one of our secure bins and marked for document destruction. Even if it’s not sensitive material, we still shred it and recycle it, so it’s worth it for you to give it to us. Our mobile shredding trucks are coming to your office anyway, so you’re not asking anything extra of us to pick up everything.
How much paper does your company go through on any given day? What about during a week, or a month? If you’re just throwing that waste away without recycling you are definitely contributing to environmental damage and you’re putting yourself at risk of someone getting valuable personal or company information directly out of the dumpster. It happens every day. Your competitors would love to get their hands on even the smallest clue to what you are thinking and what direction your company is heading in. Shredding can prevent that from happening.
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( 0 / 0 )How many times have you looked at all that old paperwork and thought about how nice it would be to just throw it all out? Here’s a better suggestion. Call PRSS and ask us to send over one of our mobile shredding services trucks to take it all, shred it, and then have it recycled. That will solve the problem. If you’re looking for five good reasons why you should hire a shredding service, think about what you will gain by it:
1. More Space in the Office: All of that storage space that you have right now for old documents can be eliminated when you call in a shredding service to get rid of it for you. Just think of all of the different things you could do with that space. You could expand the work area, create another office for someone, or maybe even build a break room for your workers.
2. Better Security: When you have regular documents destruction being done, your security is just better. Those seemingly harmless sheets of paper may contain sensitive personal or company information that can be used for identity theft or corporate espionage. When they are shredded, the risk of that information getting out is gone.
3. Less Vulnerability: If you have documents in storage your company is vulnerable to a break-in or internal security breach. Job applications and credit applications include information that is gold to internet thieves. Leaving those documents lying around, even under lock and key, is an invitation to steal.
4. Status as a Green Company: The shredding San Diego companies do with PRSS helps preserve woodlands and forests throughout the world. We recycle everything, over thirty million pounds of paper last year alone. Doing business with us and having us dispose of all your paper documents makes you a Green company also.
5. Fulfillment of Legal Obligations: In some cases you are legally obligated to shred documents. California Assembly Bill 2246 states that "A business shall take all reasonable steps to destroy or arrange for the destruction of a customer's records within its custody or control containing personal information which is no longer to be retained by the business.”
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( 0 / 0 )Does your company have security personnel? Are there guards at the front desk or locks that can only be opened with a thumb print? Those are the images that come to mind when people visualize a “security” team. These measures do exist, particularly for larger companies that do classified research or develop products in highly competitive industries, but for the small business owner security is much simpler. An anti-virus program, an alarm system, and a shredding service are the three main team members.
You read that correctly. A mobile shredding service can be a major part of your security team, whether you’re a Fortune 500 technology firm or a small five man operation on Main Street, USA. If you accept credit applications, job applications, or survey forms you have personal information that needs to be destroyed. If someone gets their hands on it while it is in your possession and uses it for identity theft or computer hacking, you are legally responsible. That makes it a security issue.
The shredding Los Angeles companies do every day is to protect them from theft and outside competition. In multi-million dollar industries, it is not uncommon for desperate individuals to go dumpster diving in their competitor’s back yard to get company secrets. Locking that dumpster behind a fence is just supplying those scavengers with a more private place to do their digging. If you shred all company documents instead of throwing them in a waste basket you won’t have to worry about nocturnal forays.
How good is your security? It’s hard to keep data confidential. If you choose to store company records or files that have sensitive information on them, you are leaving yourself open for a security breach. If you destroy documentation when its usefulness to you has ended, you will never have to worry about that breach. If you check into the laws on what you should keep and what you should shred, you’ll probably find out that you can get rid of most of what you have for old paperwork that is taking up space in your office. Once you know what’s what you can shred the majority of it.
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( 0 / 0 )Space that you’re using right now to store documents which you don’t need anymore could be a nice corner office for someone, a meeting area, or even a break room for your employees. Why are you using it to store file cabinets filled with documents that you could easily destroy by calling a shredding service? Sure, you might need to do a little sorting just in case you need some of that paperwork for reference, legal, or tax purposes, but the majority of it can go.
The habits of a lifetime are hard to break. Growing up, we all learned the importance of keeping records and saving important paperwork. The problem with that is the amount of time we end up hanging on to all that junk. Years of accumulated file folders, notebooks, carbon copies, invoices and receipts just aren’t worth keeping. Once a reasonable amount of time has elapsed, throw it away. Call for a PRSS mobile shredding services truck and we’ll get rid of it for you.
In many cases today, an electronic version of a document is just as good if not better than a paper copy. More and more companies are opting to not even use paper documentation if they can avoid it. That which they do create usually ends up in document destruction files so it turns out to be a massive waste of company money. That’s something which not many companies today can afford. Cost controls are essential for any size company or organization to stay afloat in this economy.
For those who do require paperwork, which is most of us, there is the option of shredding. In some cases that option is actually a legal obligation. Any company that accumulates paperwork which has personal information such as social security or credit card numbers is required by law to destroy it once it is no longer of use to them. If you look back in that storage room where you have records from the past twenty years you might just find some documentation that falls into that category.
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