Stringent NHS guidelines require absolute destruction of confidential patient data, and all paper-based documentation must be finely cross-shredded to ensure confidentiality is unbreached. Simply Shred & Recycle has been serving the health sector for the past eight years and understands the importance of absolute destruction of confidential waste. Our mobile shredding units will collect secured documents from your office or surgery and shred them onsite, maintaining a clear chain of custody. We then provide you with a Certificate of Destruction for your compliance records.

We cater for all areas of the health sector and have experience of handling both small surgeries and larger hospital contracts. We are happy to discuss your requirements and can provide sector-relevant references upon request.

What kinds of documents are suitable for shredding?

Our robust, state-of-the-art shredding units will finely shred all manner of paper-based waste. We recommend you contact us to discuss shredding of:

• Obsolete patient records
• Consultation notes
• Admission or discharge records
• Internal memos
• Patient correspondence/ referrals
• Printed emails
• Staff records/ payroll documentation

Our services are discrete and secure and will save your office or surgery time and money. Be confident that your confidential waste is being disposed of in an efficient and ethical way. Contact Simply Shred today on 0800 234 6622.

Simply Shred and Recycle is experienced in handling sensitive financial information and our UK-wide service is reliable, efficient and secure. We employ strict strategies to safeguard your confidential waste, maintaining your compliance with industry legislation.

Our on site shredding services provide traceability, with mobile shredding units which carry out document destruction at your offices. Our regular shredding services remove the hassle of office based shredding machines and your Certificate of Destruction shows your compliance. All of our personnel are security-checked and highly trained to deliver 100% secure document shredding to your door.

The benefits of choosing Simply Shred for your secure document disposal

• Eight years’ experience of data destruction within the financial sector
• Our shredding solutions are tailored to your requirements
• Security trained and vetted staff
• Mobile on site shredding units
• Clean, efficient and secure service
• Save up to 10% compared to our competitors
• We ensure your compliance with legislation
• Environmentally friendly recycling policy for all shredded paper

For an excellent service with complete security, call Simply Shred and Recycle  on 0800 234 6622 today for your competitive quote.

The safe and secure disposal of documents is not just advisable, it is required by law. The 1998 Data Protection Act specifies that if you work with documents containing the personal information of individuals, you will have a legal obligation to protect that information. You therefore have a responsibility to dispose of every document carefully, with the help of paper shredding services from a professional shredding company.

Despite the serious nature of confidential waste disposal, and the requirement that it must be carried out responsibly by law, many small businesses still do not have a proper provision for paper shredding. This is even more shocking considering that consumer crimes such as identity theft are on the rise, and can often be traced to data leaks from private individuals and small businesses.

If you want to protect your customers and staff from fraud such as identity theft and keep their information secure, investing in a professional paper shredding service is an absolute must. Simply Shred offers a flexible service that can be tailored to suit the needs of your small business. We are more than happy to work to accommodate your bespoke requirements, whether that means arranging fewer collections as you have less documents, or tailoring a suitable service to suit your budget.

Simply Shred can even come to your office, so you will not need to take your documents outside your premises for shredding. We can provide you with suitable bags and boxes for use in your office so that you can collect your waste documents in one place before our scheduled visit. Your staff will soon get used to using the correct boxes for their unwanted papers and we are always on hand to help you think of ideas for reminding them about your new security policies.

Our on-site paper shredding services ensure that all your documents are destroyed properly. The machines on our vehicles shred your documents into tiny pieces so that they cannot be identified. We then transport the fragments to a recycling centre where they will be turned into paper products, thereby giving your documents a new lease of life that is completely secure.

The right shredding companies will provide a comprehensive service that perfectly compliments your in-house security policies. This will give you the peace of mind that your data is in safe hands before, during and after shredding, as a respected company will always have your best interests at heart.

Simply Shred operates a complete start-to-finish service which works in line with your security policies by minimising the risk to your confidential waste and sensitive documents. We have developed a service that can take place on-site, which minimizes the risk to security that occurs when documents are transported to external shredding sites. By choosing a service that comes to you, you can have complete trust in our team, as you will be able to see the shredding happen in person if required.

Our vehicles are fully equipped with state of the art shredding machines that turn your documents into tiny fragments, which can then be recycled into new paper goods. Our machines ensure that the documents cannot be pieced together again, so there will be no safety concerns after shredding as document retrieval is impossible. Once our job is complete, we then provide you with an official Certificate of Destruction so that you can meet the standards required by the Data Protection Act.

Your company security policies will always respected by the team at Simply Shred. We work hard to listen to our customers in order to provide them with a flexible service that suits their requirements. What’s more, our team are people that you can trust, as we ensure that our staff are background-checked so that you can be confident that we have your best interests at heart.

As professionals involved in the disposal of confidential waste, Simply Shred can also provide you with brilliant advice about your security policies to make them safer, whilst being easy enough to stick to every day. We can offer helpful tips and information about the things you can put in place within your company to keep your data more secure. More information about security policies, such as ‘shred-all’ policies and ‘clean desk’ policies can be found at our blog, where we post articles on the subject of confidential documents. We are also happy to provide you with expert advice based on your individual requirements when you come to us.

Remember that protecting the personal data and confidential information of your customers, employees and your company is not just advisable, it is the law. The Data Protection Act 1988 specifies that you have a legal obligation to protect personal information and dispose of it responsibly.
It therefore makes sense to trust a respected professional shredding company to deal with your confidential waste disposal. Here at Simply Shred, we can advise you about secure disposal whilst providing a comprehensive service that takes care of your confidential waste in a responsible manner.

Here is a list of common documents you will have in your office that should be shredded when they are no longer in use:

• Contracts
• Customer lists
• Internal and external reports
• Payroll statements
• Pay slips
• Budgets
• Customer correspondence
• Legal contracts
• Strategic reports
• Job applications
• CVs
• Medical records
• Performance appraisals
• Training information
• Corporate records
• Supplier purchase orders
• Supplier records
• Product plans and tests
• New product information
• Specification drawings

You may even find some more documents in your office that are not on the above list. Remember that if in doubt, you should shred all unwanted documents in order to maintain the highest levels of company security. After all, it is much better to be safe than sorry.

Once you have collected your documents ready for shredding, Simply Shred can visit your premises to dispose of the documents on-site. We shred all the documents in specially fitted vehicles and you are welcome to pop in to see the process in action. We believe that our on-site service is the most secure way to dispose of your documents, as there is no risk involved in transporting the documents away from your office.

The shredded fragments of your confidential waste are then transferred to a recycling facility where they are processed and made into new paper products. This environmentally friendly approach is a real benefit to many of our customers who are looking to improve their green credentials.

For further information about ‘shred-all’ policies and confidential shredding, please feel free to get in touch with the team at Simply Shred.

Each person in your office needs to be aware of the importance of safeguarding confidential documents. This does not just apply to protecting the documents from external threats – it also means protecting the documents from the wrong internal personnel.

A clean desk policy can help to protect your clients, contacts and your company by reducing the risk of unauthorized access to documents. Writing a clean desk policy for your office is simple. All you need to do is follow three easy rules:

• Plan ahead
Get out the documents you need for the day and file everything else away. Only print out documents if you really need to.

• Protect information
Place any sensitive documents in a folder so they cannot be viewed by passing colleagues. When you leave your desk for breaks or meetings, do a quick check to see if there is sensitive information on your desk.

• Clear up
File away sensitive documents at the end of the day and lock them in a cabinet if needed.

Your new clean desk policy also needs to include how to securely dispose of confidential and sensitive waste. Your employees will need to understand that scrunching up a piece of paper and putting it in the bin is simply not enough. You will need to instead employ the services of a professional paper shredding company to handle your confidential or sensitive documents.

Simply Shred offers a confidential waste disposal service that protects the security of your data. When you choose our mobile shredding service, we ensure that all the documents that require disposal are all destroyed before we leave your premises. We then recycle the fragments of your documents and provide you with a destruction certificate.

We can help with your clean desk policy by providing bags and boxes for your employees to use to dispose of their confidential waste. Your clean desk policy will then become part of the everyday routine of your employees – giving you and your clients peace of mind when it comes to confidentiality.

As a company, it is your obligation to do everything you can to prevent identity fraud from happening on your watch. Remember that if you work with documents containing the personal information of individuals, you have a legal obligation to protect that information as part of the Data Protection Act 1988.

The consequences of failing to protect an individual’s identity from fraud can be costly for your company, both in terms of direct costs and the potential damage to your trusted reputation. When incidents of fraud become publically known, damage to reputation can cost larger businesses between £30,000 and £250,000.

Even though identity fraud is on the rise, many businesses ignore the issue and fail to make an effort to destroy the sensitive material that they throw away or are preparing to recycle. This attitude is completely unacceptable when identity fraud is such a real threat.

When it comes to sensitive data and documents, you must treat each piece of paper with care to make sure you are complying with the law and protecting identities. It is essential to adopt a responsible attitude towards identity theft within your company and have a clear policy towards secure shredding and confidential waste disposal. Once you have developed an identity theft policy, your employees will need to understand how to put it into practice.

You will also need to put a secure shredding operation in place so that a company can handle all of your confidential waste disposal needs. Simply Shred offers a complete start-to-finish on-site shredding service which takes the risk out of disposing of your confidential documents. Our state of the art vehicles are fully equipped with shredding machines that can be operated at your premises, so that all your documents can be destroyed under your supervision. Once the shredding is complete, we safely and securely recycle the tiny fragments of your documents and then provide you with an official Certificate of Destruction so that you can meet the standards required by law.

Our professional shredding process turns your waste documents into very small confetti-shaped bits of paper. These fragments are then transferred to a recycling facility where they are processed and made into new paper products such as writing paper, newspapers, kitchen roll and boxes. You might even end up using some of your old office documents as toilet paper!

Knowing that your documents will have a new life instead of ending up in landfill is a positive thing for many of our customers who are looking to improve their environmental credentials and reduce the carbon footprint of their business. Throwing away reams and reams of paper is unfortunately a necessary part of running a tidy office, but at least with Simply Shred you know that these documents are in safe hands when it comes to recycling.

The fact that your documents are recycled is no cause of concern when it comes to security, as each document we handle is professionally shredded so that no information is visible. As mentioned before, our shredders produce very small fragments of paper that could never be placed back together. What’s more, we work with trusted recycling partners that handle our shredded documents with great care. We also issue our clients with a Certificate of Destruction after each shred, so that you can rest assured that your documents have been completely destroyed from a legal perspective.

Our document shredding services are done at your business premises so you are welcome to take a look at the results of our shredding before the paper fragments leave for the recycling facility. You are sure to be impressed at the results, as the documents are always completely destroyed by our high-tech equipment.

If you have not got a professional shredding company on board to take care of your documents, you may be unsure of what to do with your shredded paper waste. Please make sure that it doesn’t end up in landfill with other office waste, as this is an incredible shame from an environmental point of view! Come to Simply Shred and reduce the carbon footprint of your office by investing in professional waste document disposal from the experts.

When you choose our mobile shredding service, we ensure that all the documents that require disposal are all destroyed before leaving your premises. Our specialist on site shredding vehicle is specially fitted with state-of-the-art mobile shredding equipment so that the job is completed quickly and easily. The team that drives our vehicles and completes the shredding is fully security checked so that you can put your trust in us every time.

We believe that this service is convenient for small businesses as it is tailored to your needs. We even provide you with free security consoles that are lockable for our scheduled services, or security tagged sacks so that you can get your documents ready ahead of our visit. Once all confidential papers are destroyed, a Certificate of Destruction will be issued to you so that you have the documentation to prove that you have fulfilled your legal obligations with regards to data protection.

Let’s take a look at the benefits of our on-site paper shredding service:

• Simple and easy
You can arrange for us to visit at a time to suit you. This can be on a weekly, monthly or a one-off basis when required. All you need to do is have your documents ready.
• Saves time
Our service is fast and easy compared to having to do your own shredding and document disposal.
• More secure
As we come to you, your documents do not need to leave your premises before they are shredded. You can also choose to supervise the work we do if required.

We are sure you will agree that investing in a professional document waste disposal service is imperative if you are a small business or organisation dealing with personal data or sensitive information. Our mobile service can take the hassle out of arranging collections by scheduling visits at times to suit you and can be tailored to suit your needs so that you can get great value for money.

Confidential documents cannot simply be torn up and disposed of with other paper waste; a professional paper shredding and disposal company must handle these documents appropriately. We have all heard horror stories in the news about sensitive and important documents getting into the wrong hands. Although confidential waste disasters like this are rare, the results of the information getting into the wrong hands can be catastrophic, so it is crucial that you trust the company you are dealing with to do the job professionally!

So what does a professional confidential waste disposal service entail? Simply Shred operates a complete start-to-finish service which minimises the risk to your confidential or sensitive documents. We have taken into account the risk of transporting your documents and we therefore provide a service that comes to your office, so that shredding can happen under your supervision if required. Our vehicles are fully equipped with state of the art shredding machines that can be operated on site. These machines ensure that documents cannot be pieced together again for maximum security. Once the shredding is complete, we safely and securely dispose of the remnants of your documents. We then provide you with an official Certificate of Destruction so that you can meet the standards required by law.

Here at Simply Shred, we constantly strive to make our service completely secure. Our staff are all fully trained and are also background-checked so that you can be confident in our service. What’s more, we pride ourselves on having trustworthy individuals on our team, who care about keeping your business safe and your data away from the wrong hands.

Another benefit of putting your trust in Simply Shred is that you will not need to organize your own shredding operation, which can really be a drain on you and your employees’ precious time. It makes sense to invest in a professional paper shredding company for your confidential waste disposal so that you can have peace of mind that the job is being done properly.