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Shredding Information

Why Shred?
Federal Laws That May Apply
What to Destroy
What Can be Shredded?

  

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.

Why Shred?

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  • 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.
  • 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.
  
  • 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.

Federal Laws That May Apply to Your Business

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  • 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)
  

Destroy before Discarding

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  • 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
  
 
    Filing Products
  • File Folders
  • Binders
    Various Office Items
  • Paper Clips
  • Staples
  • Plastic I.D. Cards
  • CD's and DVD's
  • Microfilm/Microfiche
  • Other Plastic Media
  
 
    Storage Items
  • Video Tapes
  • Reel Tapes
  • Mag Tapes
  • Cartridge Tapes
  • Other Magnetic Materials