Are you facing a lot of documents with private or sensitive information that needs shredding to prevent identity theft and fraud risk? Do you need to protect your business’s information, your customers, clients, investors and employees? Do you have boxes of paper in storage that really needs to be dealt with by a professional commercial paper shredding service? A company you can trust to keep that information safe and destroy it as they promise to do so.
You need to choose a destruction plan
Paper shredding services are a great option to help you get rid of documents so that you are not at risk of compromising private or even secret information. But before you choose who to handle your shredding needs you need to have a plan for the destruction and that needs to take into account a few things including how much paper you generate, and how often you want to have the service destroy them for you. Here is a closer look at the factors that will affect your plan.
- Paper shredding volume – One of the first things to consider is the volume of documents you need shredding. That should not just be how many do you have right now, as it is possible you have a backlog that needs to be dealt with but also looking forward to how much do you generate weekly, monthly. When you look at hiring document shredding services that is one of the first things they will want to know. It does not have to be super precise, but an estimate on how on weight, volume or number of boxes is helpful.
- Options for shredding – There are a few options for shredding, but the two main ones that businesses choose between are drop off or pick up to their off-site facility, or a mobile shredding onsite service. The former means either they pick up your boxes and take them back to destroy, or you drop off the boxes for them to destroy. Until the destruction happens those documents are stored in locked containers. You pay per box/bag or perhaps per pound. With onsite shredding they send a truck with a shredder on it, come to your business and shred in front of you. Someone from your business can witness it and sign off when it is done. This is the best option for especially urgent shredding needs or especially sensitive documents.
- What kind of help you need – Are you looking just to purge a large number of documents that you have and it is a one-time thing, or are you looking for recurring commercial paper shredding? Or perhaps you want both, you want an initial larger purge and then regular shredding over a long partnership.
Deciding on a schedule for shredding
When the above has all been figured out
you can then with the document shredding services to arrange a schedule that
best suits your needs.
