On-Site vs Off-Site Shredding
On-Site vs Off-Site Shredding
There has long been a debate as to which service offers the safest method of destruction of materials to maintain security and confidentiality of client's materials. LDS maintains that, in a multiple step process, the actual shredding process is only a single step. Each step in the chain of custody is critical to maintaining security and confidentiality of paper and other materials to be destroyed. Here are some helpful thoughts for your consideration.
Would you count your company's money in your parking lot? Of course not. Then why allow confidential documents to sit out there while they are being destroyed? In the chain of custody of your sensitive documents, LDS ensures that your material is secured in containers first, and then quickly moves it to a locked truck. It is then transported to our secure facility where it is off-loaded inside at our dock, tagged for identification, and placed into rotation for destruction. Your material is always monitored and handled safely as well as documented for accountability.
Would your customers and employees appreciate the fact that their confidential information is sitting exposed in a parking lot? No Way!
Do you plan on watching the shredding process or dedicating an employee to watch? You will be paying two times as much and even more for the privilege of having a mobile shredding truck in your parking lot. How do you know all the material that was removed from your facility was actually shred there as promised?
Mobile shredders do not bale when the material is shred. That means it must be returned to another facility or even another company to be removed from the truck and baled. Who has access to the shreds during this process? Mobile shredding can add to the growing problems of noise and air pollution by the very fact they shred outside. They also consume more energy than off-site operations.
The secure, confidential destruction of your information is a process. Each step in the chain of custody is a potential liability and chance for something to go wrong. We document every step from the point of taking possession at a client facility until it is completely destroyed. Then the baled shreds are stored in our locked and alarmed facility until being loaded onto a truck to go directly to a mill to be made into more paper. We believe the less it is handled - and when it is handled it is done in a secure environment - the better. Mobile shredding simply offers a false sense of security that can break down at more points than well run off-site operations like ours.
The cost difference is significant. Why pay more for something that offers no real improvement? We follow stringent procedures and our employees are bonded, insured, background checked as well as drug tested.
Mobile shredding simply cannot justify the additional cost when real scrutiny is made on the process, from point of pickup to final destruction.