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For public and private healthcare providers, the right confidential waste shredding sacks will make the grade in three key business areas: security, efficiency and sustainability. A professional data shredding provider like Restore Datashred has just what you are looking for.
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What should I look for in a confidential waste shredding sack service?
Security
Compliance with data protection legislation (GDPR) sits at the top of the list because it carries the highest short-term risk to your healthcare organisation, with patient harm, fines, and reputational damage the outcomes of getting it wrong. Keeping your confidential paper waste safe from bad actors and free from human error while it is being collected and stored for secure disposal means selecting a business like Restore Datashred who provide sturdy, tear-proof paper sacks that have three-way tamper-evident seals and unique reference numbers. That means each sack can be tracked and e-audited from the moment of pick-up by one of our secure collection operatives and throughout our chain of custody to the shredding blades. A certificate of destruction completes the transaction and provides proof for your records of compliant disposal.
Efficiency
Healthcare offices in the UK are busy. No one has time to spare to deal with sliding piles of obsolete paperwork, clearing out cabinets or archives, and organising random collections by disposal businesses. Allocating an individual to office shredder duties is inefficient and, frankly, insecure. Using a professional data shredding provider like Restore Datashred means your confidential waste will remain secure – in tamper-evident paper sacks or lockable cabinets, consoles and bins – until a scheduled collection that takes place, smoothly and discreetly, at a time to suit you.
Sustainability
Shredding sacks for confidential paper waste are the ultimate combination of efficiency and sustainability. For smaller offices, one-off clear-outs or irregular volumes, a professional shredding sack service provides the security and ease-of-use you require, while being fantastically recyclable.
What works best for my office?
While the core elements of security, efficiency and sustainability remain firmly in place, size also matters. The unbroken confidentiality of patient records should be fundamental and non-negotiable in all healthcare settings. A smaller office or operation may produce a proportionately lower number of documents, however, these items containing all manner of personal data must still be correctly managed and will stack up, fast, if they are not. This creates immediate risk of loss or theft – a dreaded data breach.
What’s the solution?
If you have the space, lockable under-desk consoles, cabinets and barcoded shred boxes offer discreet, safe sensitive waste storage. When having enough space is an issue, this is where using confidential waste shredding sacks steps in – either as a temporary or as a supplementary solution. Simply order online from Restore Datashred, for example, fill with up to 12.5kg of confidential paper waste, seal, store securely and contact us for a safe, swift collection and shredding transaction.
The result?
Not only are you running a GDPR-compliant office by using a service that provides an audited, unbroken chain of custody from collection to shredding blade to certificate of destruction, but you are also, as a corollary, segregating workplace waste as per Simpler Recycling regulations. A double win!
How do confidential waste shredding sacks help me meet my sustainability goals?
With Restore Datashred’s service, once sacks are full, you simply arrange a pick-up by one of our secure collection operatives, who transport the trackable items in electric or modern, low-fuel usage vehicles on routes mapped for maximum efficiency to one of our destruction centres. Here, the sack is swiftly processed and introduced to our shredding blades. The whole sack – contents and all – is reduced to tiny fragments in a matter of seconds, and the shreds baled and sent for recycling by one of our trusted UK partners for manufacture into paper and paper products. Using confidential waste shredding sacks represents a good step into the circular economy, a step that solidly meets sustainability criteria for healthcare organisations.
Can I use confidential waste shredding sacks in addition to my usual data shredding service?
Of course! In a busy healthcare office, it would be good practice to already use a suite of Restore Datashred’s lockable consoles, cabinets and bins for collecting and keeping confidential information safe until their scheduled pick-up time by one of our professional operatives. Confidential waste shredding sacks in this scenario are ideal for one-off clear-outs, if a team is moving office, or if a key member of staff is leaving as they can provide flexible, extra capacity for sensitive data to be stored until collection and destruction.
Security, efficiency and sustainability are the watchwords for confidential waste disposal.
Using a professional shredding service provider, like Restore Datashred, whose security and destruction standards support their shredding sack service and are backed by appropriate industry accreditations, is key to unlocking core benefits for a well-run healthcare office.
Get in touchHealthcare offices in the UK should look for confidential waste shredding sacks that…
As used by a secure disposal business operating to, eg, BS EN15713, ISO 27001, ISO 14001, GDPR and ratified by the Information Commissioner’s Office.
Strong and tear-proof, that will survive knocks and scrapes and fully protect their contents.
Shredding sacks should be tracked and audited as rigorously as lockable cabinets and bins.
Restore Datashred’s waste shredding sacks hold up to 12.5kg of confidential paper waste and, thus, are not too heavy to be moved safely.
Paper sacks are made from the ultimate recyclable material and should be shredded along with their contents and those shreds all sent for recycling and re-manufacture into new paper products.
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