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As with any motorized cutting equipment, there is a risk of injury. As shredders migrated to home environments with children and pets, shredder safety became an important issue. As early as 1985, personal injuries have occurred as a result of consumers operating shredders. As the number of paper shredders per household increased, so did the number of accidents. From January 2000 through September 2005, the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) received 50 reports of incidents involving finger amputations, lacerations, and other severe injuries from paper shredders. The majority of injuries happened to children under the age of five.
To increase consumer awareness of these potential safety hazards, two important safety alerts were issued:
Fall 2005 – Consumer Product Safety Council Shredder Safety Alert
February 2006 – American Academy of Pediatrics Shredder Safety Alert
Although designed with a narrow opening to the cutting wheels, shredders still pose a danger to pets and small children. Children as young as four months of age have the ability to imitate adults. As children grow older, this tendency to mimic adult behavior increases and parents might not anticipate the dangers of children accidentally activating a shredder. This puts children at risk for serious injury, even with adult supervision. Children’s fingers can easily be pulled into the paper entry through the force of the shredding mechanism.
Many new shredders on the market now feature improved safety features:
Safety sensor – new technology ensures the shredder automatically shuts off when hands are too close to the paper entry. The sensor around the paper entry senses the magnetic energy field carried by humans and larger pets. When this energy field is detected, the shredder instantly shuts down. As soon as the energy field is removed, the shredder starts up again.
Slimmer paper entry – this reduces the chance of fingers getting pulled into the shredding mechanism. The entry can also be made of an inflexible material to prevent the opening from widening under pressure.
Safety lock – this safety feature puts the shredder into a safe, inactive mode to prevent children from activating the shredder mechanism. The adult user simply locks the activation switch in the "off" position.
Safety flap – this flap covers cutters when the shredder head is removed from the wastebasket.
Safety interlock switch – this switch ensures the shredder will not activate when the shredder head is removed from the wastebasket.
Many home shredders can be left in a "stand-by" mode that will start the cutting process when anything is inserted into the feed slot. In homes with small children or pets, simply keeping the shredder unplugged while not in use can also reduce any risk

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identity cloning

Identity cloning and concealment
In this situation, the identity thief impersonates someone else in order to conceal their own true identity. Examples might be illegal immigrants, people hiding from creditors or other individuals, or those who simply want to become "anonymous" for personal reasons. Unlike identity theft used to obtain credit which usually comes to light when the debts mount, concealment may continue indefinitely without being detected, particularly if the identity thief is able to obtain false credentials in order to pass various authentication tests in everyday life.

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shredding truck information

Shredder trucks
A mobile shredding truck is a truck with an industrial sized paper shredder mounted inside the box, typically in the front section of the box, closest to the cab. The box is divided into two sections: the shredding equipment area, and the payload area for storage of the shredded materials. These trucks have been designed to shred up to 3,600 kg of paper an hour. Mobile shredding trucks can have a shredded material storage capacity of up to 6,800 kg of shredded paper. Office paper is the typical material being shredded, but with increasing security concerns customers also request shredding of cds, cctv, harddrives and uniforms, among other things. There are many manufactures for mobile shredding trucks but only a few of them design equipment in house. For more information on this and many other types of document destruction information go to www.securityconsole.co.uk

compare shredders

Shredders range in size and price from small and inexpensive units meant for a few pages, to large units used by commercial shredding services that costs hundreds of thousands of pounds and can shred tonnes of documents an hour. Some shredders used by a commercial shredding service are built into a shredding truck.
The normal small shredder is an electrically powered device, but there are unpowered ones such as special scissors with multiple blade pair and shredders which are hand-cranked.
These machines are classified according to the size and shape of the shreds they produce.Shredders can range in size from standard scissors and other hand-operated devices all the way up to truck-sized shredders. There are also shredder selector sites that can help consumers choose a shredder that is appropriate for their needs.
Strip-cut shredders, the least secure, use rotating knives to cut narrow strips as long as the original sheet of paper. Such strips can be reassembled by a determined and patient investigator or adversary, as the product (the destroyed information) of this type of shredder is the least randomized. It also creates the highest volume of waste inasmuch as the chad has the largest surface area and is not compressed.
Cross-cut shredders use two contra-rotating drums to cut rectangular, parallelogram, or diamond-shaped shreds.
Particle-cut shredders create tiny square or circular pieces.
Disintegrators and granulators repeatedly cut the paper at random until the particles are small enough to pass through a mesh.
Hammermills pound the paper through a screen.
Pierce and Tear Rotating blades pierce the paper and then tear it apart.
Grinders A rotating shaft with cutting blades grinds the paper until it is small enough to fall through a screen.

There are numerous standards for the security levels of paper shredders, including:
DIN 32757
Level 1 = 12 mm strips
Level 2 = 6 mm strips
Level 3 = 2 mm strips (Confidential)
Level 4 = 2 x 15 mm particles (Commercially Sensitive)
Level 5 = 0.8 x 12 mm particles (Top Secret or Classified)
Level 6 = 0.8 x 4 mm particles (Top Secret or Classified) (unofficial extension of the DIN 32757-1 standard)

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