subject: Getting Documents Shredded On Site [print this page] If you are a company that deals with large volumes of paper on a regular basis, there is a very good chance that you choose to destroy a great deal of that paper. Shredding documents is good business practice for a number of different reasons. It protects corporate secrets, reduces liability, and at times is the law. It is also a cost saving measures. If you do need to shred regularly, then looking into a Philadelphia document management company that offers on site shredding is probably one of the best options available to you.
There are other types of shredding services available besides those which come to do their jobs on site, but there are a number of reasons that these are generally not preferred. A good rule of thumb is that the more important it is that you shred documents, whether for legal or financial reasons, the more important it is that you have an onsite shredding company come to take care of the paperwork for you.
An onsite shredding service will come to your location with all of the equipment necessary to shred massive amounts of paper with them. If the documents that you are having shredded are highly confidential or sensitive, it is not uncommon for companies to request that someone from the staff stay with the shredding service at all times during the shredding process. This is something you have the option of doing with on site shredding.
Once documents go off site, you really have no idea what is going to happen to them. You don't know what employees of the shredding service will see the documents, you don't know how many hands they will pass between, and really you don't even know completely that they have been destroyed. With on site shredding you have that confirmation in front of your own eyes.
On site shredding also helps to increase responsibility from shredding companies, because it is clear what employees have dealt with a given job. Also, many companies require that their shredding services sign confidentiality agreements. That way, even if some information is inadvertently spotted in the documents they are shredding, they are legally bound to keep silent about whatever they have seen. With an onsite shredding service, you can require that ever person to handle your documentation signs such an agreement. Normally, companies will also have an over-arching confidentiality agreement signed with management at the shredding service.
