
Records and information management
Secure shredding
Destroy your paper-based records at your commercial location in a safe and compliant way
Secure document destruction
The risk of exposing confidential records can prove costly for your business. Employee records, customer account information and other sensitive data needs to be protected and destroyed securely. To avoid the potential for identity theft, and the costly fines associated with a data breach or exposure of confidential documents, organisations often destroy eligible records.
Companies that specialise in the destruction of information operate in different ways. As such, it is important to consider the method that best suits your business needs.
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Shred your documents with Iron Mountain
With Iron Mountain secure shredding solutions, your business can ensure the safe, reliable and cost-effective destruction of sensitive information. Whether you choose our offsite shredding services on a one-time or recurring basis, our specialists provide a clear line of sight into the processes and procedures that not only destroy the necessary information but adhere to regulations and policies your business may not even be aware of.
Our secure offsite shredding solution provides the ongoing, verified destruction of sensitive paper documents and plastics. Everything from DVDs to X-Rays can be safely and securely disposed of in environmentally-friendly ways.
We’ll provide collection containers to your workplace, and our specialists will collect and transport your sensitive documents and materials to our secure destruction centre at regularly scheduled intervals. Our proprietary procedures and commercial grade equipment ensure the destruction of your sensitive materials is carried out quickly and effectively.
We recycle all by-product materials and provide a certificate of destruction for your records.
If your business requires a one-time shredding solution, our special project destruction service offers a fully-customisable option that will take care of specific and time-sensitive information destruction. All of our special project destruction services are carried out with the same level of security and reliability found in our recurring services.
When it comes to the destruction of your confidential information, Iron Mountain has the customisable, shred-all solution. For information about how our environmentally conscious, regulation adherent protocols can take the burden of document disposal off of your hands, contact us today.

Pick a reliable shredding policy
Regardless of the service you select, document destruction solutions provide safe, efficient solutions for your business. By removing the labour and costs associated with such a monotonous and time-intensive task, you’ll free up resources, manpower and space. Whatever your needs and budget — Iron Mountain has a shredding service designed to help save you the time, effort and headache of managing document shredding on your own. Determine if Iron Mountain’s document storage service is right for you by talking to one of our Customer Service representatives.
When considering a document destruction solution for your business, there are numerous important factors to consider. Selective shredding vs. shred-all systems:
Why shred?
Protect employee and customer information
Ensure your business is compliant with the law
Grow customer confidence
Types of confidential material we can destroy
Iron Mountain can securely destroy several types of media, including:
✓ Paper documents
✓ Backup tapes
✓ Dvds
✓ Cds
✓ Flash drives
✓ X-rays
✓Laminated paper
✓ Card stock
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