On Site Paper Shredding FAQs
You have a legal responsibility to keep sensitive customer and employee information from falling into the wrong hands. Businesses can no longer throw confidential documents away. Eliminating certain data in a timely fashion limits your liability in litigation and protects proprietary information from competitors. Our paper shredding service will securely eliminate confidential information.
Most office-size paper shredders take time to feed and cannot accommodate sizable quantities of documents. Larger capacity document shredders involve capital investment, maintenance, and service calls. Lastly, large and compact paper shredders alike share the same basic problem – eventually they all break.
Absolutely. Small organizations have limited personnel resources, and they may need to outsource paper shredding more than larger companies. A Shred Ahead provides convenient bins onsite and conducts paper shredding according to your schedule. Download information our Small Business Paper Shredding Package.
Paper shredding is a non-revenue producing function that eats up valuable employee hours. When you consider how much it costs for one of your employees to do the job, you'll find outsourcing this tedious task to A Shred Ahead will save you time and money.
We provide on-site document shredding services using our state-of-the-art mobile paper shredding trucks. On days designated by the schedule you develop with us, our bonded drivers will arrive and shred on-site all materials collected from your A Shred Ahead consoles and bins. Our "hands free" shredding process means our employees do not directly handle your documents. The paper is deposited directly from the collection bins into the shredding compartment via the bin hoist on the side of the truck. All A Shred Ahead trucks are equipped with GPS tracking services. We know where our trucks are at any given time, and we have a record of the routes.
A Shred Ahead's powerful Shred-Tech MDS 35GT trucks will shred just about anything. We can and often do destroy paper clips, staples, binders, books, small amounts of discs, and CD ROMs in the regular paper shredding pick-ups. When needed, we can destroy items such as hard drives, reel tapes, cassette tapes, and large amounts of plastics, discs, or CD ROMs when a special "product" run is requested.
The period of time that business records are stored should be determined by a retention schedule that takes into account the useful value of documents to the business and governing legal requirements. By not adhering to ongoing destruction of documents that have outlived their usefulness, businesses exhibit disposal practices that could be negatively construed in the event of litigation or audit.
By destroying records according to a set schedule, a company appropriately limits risk. Based on your company's needs, A Shred Ahead will schedule a regular time—daily, weekly, monthly—to destroy and then recycle your sensitive material.
Nothing more than deposit them in the bins and consoles placed around your office. There is no need to remove paper clips, staples, or any other type of binding.
All shredded paper is securely recycled through our partnerships with recyclers. Every day, A Shred Ahead trucks are emptied at various paper dealers throughout the region. Many of our larger customers require that we report the actual poundage recycled per location. On average, we recycle over 350,000 pounds of shredded paper a month.
We offer and maintain a number of different options in regards to lockable security containers. Choice of bin size and type is solely at your discretion and can be altered at any time during the engagement.
Yes. We seek and employ individuals with only the highest level of integrity and competency among our operations, driver, and customer service employees. When hiring, we prefer retired military, police, and fire/emergency personnel, who have proven time and again that they make the right decisions regardless of the situation. All employees are bonded, uniformed, and wear A Shred Ahead issued badges.
Yes. We require our employees to participate in drug testing upon hire and to submit to random drug testing during the term of their employment.
All of our trucks can shred over 6,000 pounds of paper per hour.
Yes. On-site monitoring is available through cameras installed in the paper shredding and collection compartments in the trucks. Video recording of the shredding process is available.
Given the risk associated with the transportation of highly confidential paper, A Shred Ahead does not offer off-site document shredding. Regardless of the amount of insurance the paper shredding company has, no amount of money will redeem the loss associated with the bad publicity of leaked information. Your information will not leave your parking lot until it is shredded.
Not at this time, however, this service is under construction. Once completed, this area on our site will allow all customers to login and request a customer call, schedule a purge, and check the schedule for the next route pick-up. Instant account access will also be available online, so you can check payments, look at past bills, and request invoices.
We can issue a Certificate of Destruction form when records have been destroyed. The form will include data and method of destruction, description of the disposed records, dates covered, statement that records were destroyed as part of the normal course of business, and signatures and names of individuals supervising and witnessing the destruction. We can also provide detailed monthly recycle poundage and quality reports.
A Shred Ahead is an AAA National Association for Information Destruction (NAID) Certified provider that is on the GSA Schedule with the Federal Government. We adhere to all applicable laws, regulations, and guidelines.
Because we are on the GSA Schedule, audits, unscheduled or scheduled, are a normal course of action and welcomed by us. One of our operational strengths is our back-office efficiency and front-office execution.
A Shred Ahead complies with HIPPA requirements and adheres to all other requirements and regulations for the destruction of confidentiality of proprietary materials. Our operations manual outlines the process and procedures we require our drivers to follow regarding the servicing of bins, the transporting of confidential material to the truck, and the shredding of the material.