Is Your Construction Company Buried in Documents?
Before you pull a bucket loader up to the back door and cart everything off to the nearest landfill, please check our record retention guideline.
It’s the time of year for clearing out last year’s files to make room for the new year, and many of you already have a back room full. It may be a good idea to destroy some documents, but please be careful which items you remove, and consider whether those documents should be shredded before they leave your custody.
Any documents with confidential company or personnel information, particularly social security numbers, should be destroyed with care. If you don’t have the capacity to shred all the documents yourself, consider hiring a specialty company to perform this function. Do a little research to make sure the document destruction company has a good reputation before you hire them.
Remember, you may want to get out from under all that paper, but it pays to be careful with your company’s historical records. 
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