• ShredAssured, Inc. carries a $2,000,000 general liability insurance policy. In addition, all employees are bonded for your protection.
• Our staff is screened through criminal background checks prior to employment. They must submit to pre-employment drug and alcohol screening and participate in random drug and alcohol testing.
• Materials for destruction are secured at all times.
• A “Certificate of Destruction” is provided upon completion of each job and with each invoice.
• All trucks are fully insured, well maintained and carry current state inspection.
• Staff are always in uniform with picture ID.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) estimates that U.S. businesses loose tens of billions of dollars annually due to the theft of their information. Virtually any discarded document that leaves your facility without first being destroyed would interest competitors, investigative reporters, dumpster divers, ID thieves and other parties who have no business acquiring any type of information on your company. In many industries such as medical & financial, discarded information, if not properly destroyed can result in legal action, fines and even loss of license.

Incidental Records – In a today’s business environment, incidental records that are sometimes called non-records are produced daily. As defined in chapter 44, U.S. code, 3301 incidental records include extra copies (e.g., photocopies) of documents such as routing slips, misprints, transmittal sheets, faxes, materials made for museum purposes, and intermediate drafts, created or received throughout the course of the day, that have no value beyond their immediate use. Incidental records can comprise as much as 60% of the waste generated in an office environment. These records may have a life of a few minutes or a few weeks, but often they are discarded without any acknowledgement of their creation or a policy regarding their proper retention and disposal. ShredAssured’s Security Container Service will help protect your information on this issue.

Dumpster diving has become "investigative journalism 101" as well as an easy source of information for corporate spies. Is your company successful? If yes, then you have information that would be very interesting for someone to read. The garbage is a frequent and legal source of information for anyone who cares to look. Key information is produced daily in your office and much of it ends up in the garbage, where it is fair game to anyone who does not mind getting their hands dirty.

Tip: At the end of the business day, before the cleaning crew arrives, take a walk around the office and cubicles, look in the trash cans, notice what is in them. Imagine yourself as a competitor, investigative reporter, compliance officer, consumer watchdog or nosy employee. There is a good chance some of the items in these trash cans should not be there, and that your good will and reputation could be at risk over one simple piece of paper. Not to mention the privacy laws and fines you could be liable for.

While still in the mind set of a competitor, investigative reporter, compliance officer, consumer watchdog or nosy employee, would any of this information interest you? Of course it would. Think about what you find in the trash cans, then call ShredAssured.

ShredAssured’s “On-Site” document destruction is the most cost effective and secure method of paper shredding because YOU are in complete control, and you can actually “watch” the destruction at your location. If it is not shredded “On-Site” you do not have any control, or guarantee that it is destroyed. Since you are legally responsible for your information security, “On-Site” shredding is the only true way to assure everything was shredded.

Non shredded discarded documents violate these laws & regulations:

• HIPAA – Heath Insurance Portability & Accountability Act.
• GLBA – Gramm Leach Bliley Act.
• FACTA - Fair and Accurate Credit Transaction Act.
• Privacy Act.
• Economic Espionage Act.
• ID Theft Laws.
• Trade Secret Protections.
• The Fair Credit Reporting Act.

Your shredded documents are completely obliterated by our shredders, compacted and baled. We then transport it to a secure recycling facility, where it is made into new paper products. If it is not recyclable, it is securely disposed of.