What to shred and why

What to shred and why

It’s all too easy for sensitive information to be simply thrown away by employees who may not realise their importance or understand the risks. Even documents that may not appear to be confidential could threaten your security or break the law if they’re not properly dealt with. Even a single name and postcode on a piece of paper (or any other record) has to be destroyed securely.

Quite apart from the law, it’s just good business sense to protect the confidentiality of customers, employees and others who trust you with their personal information. And with the real risk that sensitive data could threaten the security of your business if it fell into the wrong hands, it’s good to know there are safe hands that you can trust.

One call to us makes it easy for you to meet your legal requirements, and keep your private information secure.

What should I shred?

In every area of a typical organisation - from HR to new product development and from sales and marketing to accounts, IT and procurement - there’s a long list of documents and other material that need shredding at the end of their life.

There are the obviously sensitive areas like employee data, strategy documents, payroll and customer information. But what about budgets, correspondence, specifications and even complaints? What about contracts, appraisals, medicals and supplier records?

Ask for our free audit to help you cover all the bases.

From 6 April 2010 fines
of up to £500,000 can be issued for breaches of data protection

What we shred & destroy

• Paper and paper products
• Branded items, uniforms & ID
• IT and office equipment
• Storage media
More detail >

The breadth of items we can securely
destroy enables our clients to easily
comply with the Data Protection Act and
the WEEE Directive



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