Staff working from home? How are they handling document destruction (and still complying with POPIA)?

If you or your staff have been working from home over the past year, unwanted paperwork has no doubt been piling up.

But did you know that now that the Protection of Personal Information (POPI) Act has come into effect, you can no longer simply dispose of unneeded documents containing business or customer information in the dustbin or with your weekly recycling?

According to the act, personal information must be destroyed in a manner that prevents its reconstruction in an intelligible form. That means all such documents must be shredded.

Unless all your remote working staff have an office shredder at home, or can secure documents earmarked for destruction at home, en route to the office for destruction, and during the destruction process itself, ensuring POPIA compliance under remote working conditions can be difficult.

Given that non-compliance carries a hefty fine, secure document destruction is a now a business imperative.

The solution? Certified, confident document destruction from Cleardata.

We travel to your remote working sites and collect unneeded documents for destruction, ensuring they are destroyed, either on or off site, in accordance with POPIA requirements.

This ensures that your sensitive company and client information is not comprised by your remote staff while working from home, and that your business is able to remain POPIA compliant, even during these challenging times.

To book your secure document shredding at remote working sites, email info@cleardata.co.za.