SECURITY

SECURITY

NAID CERTIFIED: NAID AAA Certification sets the highest benchmark for paper shredding companies, ensuring your safety. This certification is granted to organizations that pass a rigorous audit conducted by an independent 3rd party security expert, followed by continued scheduled and random audits. With NAID AAA Certification, Shred Northwest is not just claiming to be secure, but exceeding the highest standards of security and reliability in the industry.

It’s possible for anyone to purchase a retired shred truck from a professional shredding company and claim to offer secure shredding services. However, these amateur operators often lack customer reviews on platforms like Google and may require you to compromise your security for cost savings.

Their argument remains consistent; they claim that as long as you can witness the shredding process, nothing else matters. In some cases, these businesses may even deceive customers by falsely claiming to have NAID AAA Certification or asserting that they fulfill all requirements but have yet to receive the official certification. These amateur shredding companies might dismiss the value of NAID AAA Certification as a mere piece of paper and maintain that they are secure no matter what simply because they say so.

We take pride in being among the approximately 1,200 companies across the world that have earned the prestigious AAA Certification from NAID. NAID is a global organization, and you can easily verify the most up-to-date information on certified companies by visiting their website.

Since 2010, we have proudly held the NAID AAA Certification. In addition, our President has served as the “immediate past president” of iSIGMA’s global Board of Directors and received recognition as both the 2015 and 2016 NAID Member of the Year. Through his service on the NAID-Complaint Resolution Council, he has gained insight into the shortcuts some companies take, enabling us to maintain the highest standards. Furthermore, his service on the CSDS Board of Regents for NAID has contributed to the industry’s first textbook on Information Destruction principles.

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Hipaa Compliant Secure Shredding


HIPAA COMPLIANCE: There is often confusion surrounding claims of being “HIPAA compliant” made by shred companies. However, it is important to understand what steps a shred company must take in order to truly achieve HIPAA Compliance. In collaboration with the experts at NAID, we have outlined the following 5 steps.

1. Complete a risk assessment.
Considering that a Shred Company is safeguarding Protected Health Information (PHI) for only a VERY brief moment (compared to a doctor’s office), the scope of a thorough risk assessment for a paper shredding services company is narrow.
2. Background Check/Screen Employees.

At Shred Salt Lake we complete annual background checks for each of our “Access” employees and look back in time as far as is legally appropriate. Felons, and individuals with theft related petty crime are ineligible to work for us as “Access Employees”.

3. Training! Training! Training!. (from a foundation of written policies and procedures)

At Shred Salt Lake we have training videos, and a comprehensive set of written policies and procedures that are updated at least annually. We don’t want a breach, and you don’t want excuses. Training, training, training is how we accomplish both of those goals.

4. Maintain an incident report log.

Like safety, and other highly regulated workplace activities, part of the expected best practices of maintaining a secure environment, and part of being compliant with HIPAA is writing down and keeping a record of any incident. The US Health and Human Services department does not want to have incidents forgotten or swept under the rug. Shred Salt Lake has never had an incident, but if we do, we will log it.

4. Have an effective Business Associate Agreement (BAA) in place.
If you are a covered entity, then you should not work with a paper shredding, or hard drive shredding company unless there is a signed BAA in place. Shred Northwest has a BAA that you can sign. Frequently, Shred Northwest will sign the BAA that is provided from the Covered Entity. Our agreement is fair and mutually protective and we expect to sign similar, reasonable BAA’s with reasonable expectations of risk and liability.
More information about HIPAA can be found here.

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