Posts Tagged ‘unshred’

If there’s a Shred of Evidence it’s Not Shredded

Monday, October 28th, 2013

“What’s the minimum shred size?”

Recently I got a great question from one of my Compliance Helper clients:

“This may seem like a silly question, but is there any type of HIPAA compliance requirements for shredder types?  For example, minimum shred size?”

Not a silly question at all! Of the organizations that shred their paper documents (there are still way too many that don’t), a large portion of them are not shredding their documents to a point that they are actually doing so effectively. Here are some points and tips (more…)