Laws that may apply
Federal Laws That May Apply to Your Business
- Health Insurance and Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)
- Graham Leach Bliley (GLB)
- Fair and Accurate Credit Transactions Act of 2003 (FACTA)
- Economic Espionage Act (EEA)
- Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX)
Why Shred?
The requirements of federal laws, HIPAA, Graham-Leach-Bliley and recently FACTA have increased demand for on-site document destruction services.
Virtually all businesses are impacted with the privacy laws. Shred Experts has serviced a wide range of commercial customers throughout Lower Michigan including businesses in the medical, financial, legal, governmental, automotive, and industrial field.
- Eliminates possibility of incomplete destruction of important documents. Large in-house shredding volume is laborious to handle and may cause circumvention of control requirements.
- Peace of mind provided by the knowledge that all confidential documents will be completely destroyed in a timely fashion according to your requirements daily, weekly or monthly.
- Increased productivity: Employees are more productive when focused on their core responsibilities
- Safety-first: Even small shredding machines can cause injury if used in haste; grab clothing or other apparel.
- Reduced capital costs and payroll costs associated with purchase of equipment and involvement of staff in the shredding function. Time-savings can be applied to employee productivity.
- Lower costs for disposal of shredded material; eliminates need for additional dumpsters.
- Security of your documents awaiting destruction. Our service includes locked security cabinets placed strategically your facility-easy accessibility for your staff.
- On-site mobile document destruction improves control over the destruction process by eliminating excessive handling sensitive documents.
Destroy Before Discarding
The following list of items should be detroyed before they are discarded.
These are high sensitivity items to which you have a great responsibility
- Customers Information
- Accounting Records
- Payroll Information
- Financial Reports
- Medical Records
- Inventory Reports
- Social Security Numbers
- Personnel Records
- Credit Card Information
- Sales Information
- Meeting notes
- Marketing Plans
- Tax Records
- Phone Messages
- Insurance Records
- Loan /Credit Applications
- Cancelled Checks
What can be Shredded
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Paper Products
- White Paper
- Colored Paper
- Carbon Paper
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Filing Products
- File Folders
- Binders
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Various Office Items
- Paper Clips
- Staples
- Plastic I.D. Cards
- CD's and DVD's
- Microfilm / Microfiche
- Other Plastic Media
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Filing Products
- Video Tapes
- Reel Tapes
- Mag Tapes
- Cartridge Tapes
- Other Magenetic Media