The impact of load-shedding on office shredding (and POPIA compliance)

For companies with no alternative power sources, or limited uninterrupted power supplies, performing office functions during times of sustained load-shedding can be difficult. Disposing of sensitive customer and business data during such periods is even more challenging, as leaving documents to mount up puts your company at risk of non-compliance with the POPI Act.

Secure document shredding is vital to ensuring businesses remain compliant with all relevant legislation. However, regular office shredders rely on power to run, and in the case of continuous load-shedding, often can't be operated for hours at a time.

As a result, document shredding quickly falls off the radar as an office imperative - especially where load-shedding times are not convenient for those staff assigned to the job, who are already battling to keep up with their own work when the power is on.

Outsourced document shredding - both on-site at your premises and off-site at one of our facilities - is not only secure, but remains unaffected by load-shedding. Whether the power is on or not, our trucks still collect and empty your secure document bins, and shred your documents, on schedule as agreed, minimising any further business interruption.

This ensures confidential customer and business information is not left piling up at your office, or at our off-site shredding facility, and is safeguarded and securely destroyed timeously. It also guarantees that you remain compliant with South Africa's latest customer information management legislation.

If you are still shredding documents in-house, consider a secure, outsourced shredding solution that delivers no matter what 'stage' the country is on.