What You Need to Know About HIPAA-Compliant Shredding

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The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), a list of standards for organizations and businesses to protect patient files and other medical records, was created in 1996 in the interest of preserving patient privacy. These standards require that sensitive information is “rendered essentially unreadable, indecipherable, and otherwise cannot be reconstructed” after they are no…

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Document Destruction Best Practices: A Comprehensive Guide to Paper Shredding

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For modern businesses today, one of the most important security measures a company can take is ensuring secure document destruction. Every organization holds confidential information on clients and operations alike. And without a proper document shredding policy, you face the risk of compromised company files, employee records and customer information. To make sure your confidential…

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Professional Document Shredding: Why It Matters for Your Business

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Most business owners understand the need to dispose of important paper documents properly, which can contain quite a bit of information that would be harmful in the wrong hands. Obviously, this is where professional document shredding comes into play. However, some business owners fall short of understanding the need to let professionals handle their document…

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4 Document Shredding Mistakes to Avoid

Document Shredding Risks for Your Business

It might surprise you to find that most companies today don’t have a document security policy – despite the growing number of mishandled paper documents – leaving them open to several common document shredding mistakes. Without a proper shredding policy, your company could lose millions in non-compliance fees, lost business and legal costs. When it…

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In-House Document Shredding: Calculating the Hidden Costs

The Hidden Costs Associated with In-House Document Shredding

Many businesses still practice DIY document destruction to cut costs.  What they might not realize is that in-house document shredding is not only less secure, but it’s also not very cost effective either. The problem is, document security continues to remain more important in the workplace with the average office worker using up to 45…

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Press Release: Mobile Shredding Association Against Move to Diminish the Importance of On-site Shredding

In an announcement made during an Earnings Report Conference Call on April 28, 2016 Stericycle, the largest on-site shredding company in the world built on the slogan “on-site done right”, announced a deliberate move to convert all Shred-It clients from on-site to off-site shredding. In short, the report reflects their intent to convert the Shred-It…

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