If your business makes or sells physical products, you can’t afford to neglect the Consumer Product Safety Act. Manufacturers, importers and retailers have obligations under the law. It’s been on the books for more than 50 years, but many business owners are probably unclear about exactly what the law requires of them. Penalties for violations...Continue Reading
Your business might reap multiple benefits from organizing a shredding event. First, it’s a good opportunity to clean out your facilities and offices so you can get rid of obsolete materials, hard drives and files in a secure way, creating more storage space. Businesses also host shredding events that are open to the public or...Continue Reading
Imagine the worst-case scenario happens and your business experiences a serious data breach. Let’s say after upgrading your company’s computers, you failed to destroy some obsolete hard drives properly, and a malicious outsider targeted those drives to use the data to steal sensitive information. Not only would your own financial data be exposed, but private...Continue Reading
How many cell phones have you gone through in your lifetime? Most of us have probably lost track at this point. You might have one or two old phones gathering dust in a drawer at home or in your office right now. Every upgrade brings up the question – what’s the best way to dispose...Continue Reading
We’ve talked before about healthcare data breaches and why timely document shredding is so essential for protecting patient data. Healthcare entities risk HIPAA violations and could expose patients’ private medical and/or financial information to outsiders with delayed data destruction. It’s easy to see how a data breach could affect patient privacy, considering healthcare records contain...Continue Reading
Considering all the other challenges your business has to deal with on a daily basis, being penalized for noncompliance with data destruction regulations is the absolute last thing you need. Nor do you want to spend time scrambling for data disposal records if you’re ever audited by a government agency or need to prove that...Continue Reading
There are a lot of reasons why even small businesses elect to work with shredding services instead of doing shredding in-house. It’s certainly more convenient to have a service come and take away locked bins of your shreddable stuff, compared to maintaining your own shredder and having employees feed obsolete materials into it one by...Continue Reading
All businesses have sensitive data to protect, but paper shredding is even more critically important for healthcare entities than virtually any other industry. For healthcare offices, protecting information from exposure is more than a matter of professional conduct. HIPAA compliance makes it a matter of law. And recent trends indicate that healthcare data is under...Continue Reading
Creating and maintaining your record retention policy is one of those tasks that takes a little time upfront but can save a lot of time and confusion later on. It’s essentially a way of making sure everyone in your organization is on the same page about how to handle all your sensitive information, both paper...Continue Reading
Your business might need product destruction services for any number of reasons. Maybe it’s old or defective inventory that you can’t sell. Obsolete merchandise or models that are proprietary to your business. Products that were damaged in transit to you. Old uniforms with company branding from former employees. Or maybe staff finally cleared out a...Continue Reading
