10 Mistakes not to make when disposing of your documents

As an organization maintaining document privacy and security is essential when it comes to your reputation.?

This becomes more crucial when it comes to sensitive and confidential information. Most if not all documents have a retention period whereby they are disposed of to give space to upcoming documents.

And yet all these documents are stored leading to an increase in space occupied by documents. This is an added overhead cost which is not necessary.

Organizations tend to make mistakes which look trivial but can be detrimental to their interests. Here are some of the mistakes organizations? make when it comes to disposing of their documents.

• Having no document retention and disposal policy.
• Poor document disposal methods.
• Keeping documents beyond their retention period
• Insecure digital documents destruction
• Insecure disposing of shredded material
• Non destruction or improper destruction of drafts and copies
• Non recording of your document destruction process
• Lack of team awareness of your document disposal policy
• Ignoring compliance requirements
• Unreliable? document destruction service provider

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