Document Destruction

Shredder Experts Company specializes in the destruction & recycling of all your confidential documents & records. We provide off-site destruction of your documents, and encourage you to witness the destruction for your peace of mind! SEC is fully bonded and insured and we issue a notarized certificate of destruction each time we are called. All of our shredding estimates are free and we guarantee that all of your shredded office paper will be recycled.
     
We offer free use of our security collection containers for temporary storage pending destruction for routine daily, weekly, or monthly service. Quarterly or yearly purge service for your stored documents is also available. Our storage containers come as a beautiful cabinet to blend with the office furniture or as a cart on heavy duty casters. The containers come completely secure with a hasp lock assembly and you have a key for your convenience. They will hold from 5 to 56 cubic feet of material.

Company Ethics

Shredder Experts Company is not just any shredding company. We take the security of your information seriously because we are in the business of information security. SEC is pleased to help you with the secure destruction of documents, and would like to help you create a records management program. All of our employees are drug tested, fingerprinted, bonded and fully insured because of the serious nature of our service. We are active members of the National Association of Information Destruction (NAID) our industry’s organization that sets our standards

Who Needs Shredder Experts ?

The quick answer is almost everyone…..ranging from the miscellaneous mail and records most of us have at home to any public or private company or institution dealing with everyday business such as payroll data, personnel files, customer lists, financial statements, bank statements, competitive price comparisons, R&D reports, sales reports, forecasts, marketing plans, or patients’ medical information.
THEFT, VANDALISM, AND INDUSTRIAL ESPIONAGE are becoming ever increasing security problems. Florida was ranked 6th in Identity Theft cases, according to the Federal Trade Commission. The Attorney General’s office in Florida warns that business owners have a responsibility to their customers and their employees to protect personal identification information. With proper data collection and measures to safeguard that information, companies can minimize the risk of customers’ and employees’ personal information falling into the wrong hands. The Attorney General also says that businesses must Shred or destroy documents and records containing personal identifying information when you dispose of them.

Customer Benefits

If your organization’s records were to fall into the wrong hands, the result could be measured from embarrassment to catastrophic loss of assets. Without a program to control this problem, the daily trash of every business and organization contains information that could be harmful. While you may or may not end up in court for neglectfully violating privacy laws, the public relations’ damage could cost even more. Federal courts have ruled that once it is in the trash it is fair game to anyone wanting it. Why take that risk?

By taking advantage of our service:

      *No need to purchase expensive equipment
      *No maintenance expenses
      *No lost employee time
      *No plastic bags to buy
      *Increased security
      *No need to prepare records for destruction by              removing metal and plastics
      *Peace of mind that your documents are safe while you              store them and will be recycled once destroyed!

Summary

We have all seen numerous local governmental agencies like courts and police using restitution workers or community service probationers to shred confidential documents. Accounting firms, medical offices, and others have used high school kids and part-time help. We’ve seen people violate state law by burning records in the open and we have seen them dumped in the trash and at land-fills. Mini warehouses abound with boxes of confidential records piled in a leaky, unsafe, pest infested space. The U.S. Secret Service wants to make all Americans aware of the increase in criminal activity involving “identity theft” and the FBI says that corporate espionage in causing the loss of billions of dollars to American businesses each year.
News reports tell us where people have profited financially by obtaining our phone credit cards, checking account and other confidential information to commit identity theft. Corporate fraud and espionage is the greatest threat to large and small businesses as their own employees walk off with sensitive information, only for it to show up on the evening news or at trial. It is this ever present risk that led to the development of the information destruction industry. As in any business, there are cheap ones and good ones. We don’t expect everyone to use our services. What we ask, is that you visit the other company’s facilities and ask important questions before deciding which company to trust with your confidential records. A few pennies saved now can turn into thousand of dollars if that trust is betrayed. Thank you for your time!

On-Site or Off-Site Shredding?

Shredder Experts is proud to offer all of our customers Off-Site destruction. But we also want all of our customers to be well informed about this service. Here are a few statements that our customers frequently make, and we wanted to share them so that you may have a complete understanding of the pros and cons of shredding.

* I don’t want my documents to leave my premises for security reasons.

* I want on-site shredding services because I want to watch the shredding being done.

* I think it is safer to have the shredding done at my office, because I don’t know or trust where it goes if it leaves my premises.

Do you or an employee of your company watch the shredding process if you have elected on-site shredding? If you do not, why is it more secure at your facility than ours? If you do, do you really know what you are watching? Florida law does not require on-site shredding.

The Enron scandal created a myth that all shredded paper can be pieced back together. Enron’s attorneys were able to piece the paper together because the shredding was done in isolated shredders into an isolated container. Only Enron’s documents were shredded, therefore it simply became a large puzzle to piece back together. This is impossible with Shredder Experts’ “closed loop” off-site shredding. Why? Off-site shredding ensures that all of your confidential documents are mixed with thousands of pounds of other customers’ documents. With our off-site service, your documents are picked up, placed into a locked container, locked up into a secure truck, transported to a secure facility; shredded immediately and finally baled to ensure ultimate security. The bales are held in our secure warehouse until they are sent directly to the paper mill. The liability of those documents passes to us with a simple work order signed by the customer at the time of pickup. Most vendors that only offer on-site shredding, do not bale the shredded paper. They have to dump it at a recycling facility where there are no background or drug testing required for their employees. What if something small such as a check passed through the shredding teeth of the on-site vendor? It happens all the time with any shredder. At our facility, we have the ability to retrieve the document and shred it immediately to ensure confidentiality; on-site trucks can only dump the full load which compromises the security of your documents.

Off-site shredding services are also more cost effective than on-site services. If you do witness your on-site shredding, have you done the cost analysis for the wages and benefits you are adding to the shredding services? Once again, Shredder Experts wants you to understand that we want you to get the best value for your dollar, because, a happy, informed customer is our best asset!!