Five downfalls of an office shredder

1. Over-exerting Your Shredder —Most standard office shredders can only handle so much paper at once and are generally not designed for regular, heavy use. Office shredders that are not equipped with thermal-protection motors, often break down if used excessively. You’ll find this tends to be the case with paper that is irregular, such as card. Card is too thick for these machines, and therefore will often lead to paper jams.
2. Feeding Non-Paper Material through Machines —In-house office shredders are designed to shred paper only; staples, paper clips, or discs will damage your shredder and should not be fed through these machines. Unfortunately due to the time involved with removing these pieces, employees will force them through the office shredder anyway. For your own convenience, it’s best to avoid this situation all together and have your document shredding outsourced.Professional paper shredding companiessuch as Yorshred will easily shred through clips, staples and more. Save yourself the hassle and interruption in your work day.
3. Lack of Maintenance —Many in-house shredders need regular maintenance to ensure proper functionality. Oiling it and emptying the paper on an ongoing basis will reduce the chances of your machine malfunctioning; however, due to the hassle of this task, in many instances it’s forgotten about all together. Most employees are not aware of the necessary maintenance required, and instead become occupied with alternative tasks.
4. Failing to Establish Scheduled Paper Shredding —Companies who do not have a specific schedule and time in place to complete document shredding, wind up overwhelmed with an endless pile of documents that need destroying. When paper builds up, mistakes occur, and more time is required by your employees to complete the task.
5. Security Breach –Potential exposure of confidential information is a possibility if your company uses employees to shred sensitive information. Yorshred will lessen the many hands involved, in proper destruction of your documents.

Yorshred can eliminate these problems through our regular shredding service covering the York, Harrogate, Leeds, Beverley, Hull and surrounding areas.