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How Scheduled Shredding Can Keep Your Business Compliant
In my life and work, I follow routines. I use an online calendar to schedule appointments, events, and reminders for things that need regular attention. For instance, I water our plants daily or they wilt from the heat within two days. Every three months, I write and send a quarterly update to all my business…
Read More To Stay Compliant, Media Destruction is a Must
Personally Identifiable Information (PII) and Protected Health Information (PHI) stored on any type of media, whether paper or electronic, is protected by law and requires any person or organization that generates that information to protect it during its lifecycle and destroy it at the end of that lifecycle. Laws that govern the control of private…
Read More How the Right Shredding Company Can Help with HIPAA Compliance
Bill’s Story Our CEO just walked in the door with what he calls, “the bargain of century.” He said Frank’s Office Shed had a massive sale on old stock and he bought six buy-one-get-one-free paper shredders so that we could not only save money, but shred documents immediately upon discarding them. Our medical office staff…
Read More How to Keep Your Business Compliant Amid Emerging Data Regulations
Partners in Combating Identity Crime Jay: (looking at a magazine) Paige. Listen to this. According to the Federal Trade Commission, in 2020, identity fraud incidents increased about 45%. According to a study the following year, the trend continued with Americans losing a total of $56 billion dollars to identity fraud! This is completely crazy and…
Read More Celebrate Earth Day with Document Shredding
What better way to celebrate Earth Day than to check your knowledge about the environment and shredding? Below is a list of eight quiz questions. You decide which of these questions are true and which are false, and just so we don’t keep you in suspense, you can check your answers in the section that…
Read More It’s Purge Time for Your Records
Least-Desirable Months If you’re not a fan of the months of January and February and are grateful to see them in the past, you might have enjoyed being a Roman prior to 150 BC, when neither month existed on the calendar and March was the official first month of the year. According to YouGovAmerica, January…
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