What to Expect From a Professional Document Shredding Service?

Asking what you should expect from a professional shredding service might sound like a trick question. The answer is, “shredding,” of course! Well, the word to focus on in the question is actually “professional.”

Professional shredding services are experienced, thorough, and knowledgeable about document destruction. For large businesses with hundreds or thousands of records to shred, it’s more cost-effective and secure to partner with a shredding company than to do it yourself.

The Benefits of Partnering With a Professional Shredding Service

So what can you expect from a professional shredding company? What are the benefits for you?

Increased Security and Reduced Liability

The reason you’re likely interested in a shredding service in the first place is that you have sensitive information to protect.

Company documents often contain financial and health records of employees, customers, and vendors, which can be used to steal identities. Business secrets, proprietary formulas, and even classified government information can also be in these documents. Thoroughly shredding and disposing of such documents keeps them from hackers and scammers.

Reduced Costs

Investing in shredding equipment is expensive. And, such machinery takes up space, uses electricity, and requires maintenance, too. And then there’s the topic of disposing of the shredded documents! Dedicated shredding services take on such costs, hassles, and regulatory requirements so you don’t have to.

Ensured Compliance

Speaking of regulations — the government’s privacy laws are incredibly strict. Businesses need to have procedures in place for properly destroying and disposing of records. A reputable shredding service will provide a certificate of destruction following any shredding event to demonstrate your company did everything by the book.

Environmental Responsibility

Your shredding partner will be able to recycle the shredded material to minimize the ecological impact. Additionally, if you’re destroying items such as hard drives or solid-state drives, shredding companies will make sure precious metals, rare earth materials, and potentially toxic elements do not enter the environment.

Improved Productivity

If you’re doing in-house shredding, you know it’s a resource hog. You need to have dedicated employees with the clearance to handle sensitive documents performing activities such as removing staples, unfolding sheets of paper, and delivering bags of shredded paper documents to a qualified recycler.

Hiring a shredding service takes those duties off the shoulders of staff members who could better use their time in service to the business in other ways.

A Secure Reputation

Data breaches make the news for a reason. People want to know if a company they rely on accidentally leaked personal information.

From Yahoo’s 3-year-long server attacks that exposed 3 billion user accounts to Microsoft’s 2021 attack that left 60,000 companies vulnerable, many large companies have taken serious PR hits from data breaches. Showing customers and clients that you take security seriously protects your brand image.

Partner With SEAM to Protect Your Business

SEAM serves businesses across North Dakota and South Dakota, shredding sensitive documents and protecting their bottom lines. From paper documents to hard drives, solid-state drives, and CDs/DVDs, we ensure your old records are thoroughly destroyed.

Once the shredding is complete, we provide a certificate of destruction so you can demonstrate to key stakeholders that you can be trusted with their information. Contact SEAM and start protecting your business today!