Managing your shredding in house can be time consuming, inefficient, and not quite as complaint as you may think.
Maybe you have considered using a professional shredding company? Someone who can supply a secure container and manage your shredding collections for you – allowing you more time to focus on your priorities. But at what cost?
Well, aside from the fact that having your own staff carry out your shredding costs over 35% more than outsourcing, there is also the human resource involved, the effects on staff retention, increased risk, as well as it providing little to no audit trail to consider.
Outsourcing your shredding is not only the easiest way of staying GDPR compliant when it comes to your sensitive documents needing disposal, it could also save money, increase productivity, and helps to reduce your carbon footprint.
Features and Benefits of outsourcing your Shredding to a specialist like Chaffinch
Secure shredding and confidential destruction of paper, digital media and branded products is essential to reduce the risk of data breaches, loss of commercially sensitive information and identity theft.
In addition, using a professional shredding company can save money, improve efficiency, and enable you to put your focus back on what you do best for your business.
Having a lockable shredding container installed in your workspace is not only more aesthetically pleasing than a shredder, it’s also the securest way of storing your business sensitive data, whilst awaiting its destruction. Let’s take a look at some of the other features and benefits:
Improve data protection compliance
Secure shredding contributes to a robust data security policy. The Data Protection Act 2018 provides for fines of up to £17.5m or 4% of global turnover. Outsourcing your shredding reduces this risk.
Avoid becoming a statistic
Almost 88% of UK businesses have suffered a data breach in the last 12 months, with the average cost to an SME being £16K. Data protection good working practice minimises your risk.
Save money
Having your own staff carry out your shredding costs over 35% more than outsourcing to a professional shredding company.
Reduce the workload & receive flexible support
Regular services built to suit your requirements can be scheduled, reducing the workload inhouse. At Chaffinch, we provide regular shredding collections to one-off clear-outs, our experienced team is on hand to support the needs of your business. Our focus on customer service is relentless, giving you peace of mind that your data is in safe hands.
Become more environmentally friendly
Reduce your carbon footprint, improve your CSR and do business sustainably. At Chaffinch, we recycle over 97% of all confidential waste, which is supplied to the tissue manufacturing industry to be turned into paper tissue products. We operate a zero to landfill policy.
Work with fully accredited providers
We are proud that our shredding services are accredited by independent auditors and meet the highest industry standards. From booking to collection to destruction, our team is trained handle your information safely and securely.
Shred for compliance to reduce risk to save the planet to save money
Want to find out more about Chaffinch’s secure shredding services? – Click here to see our containers or call us on 01782 437131 to find out more.