WesTex Document, Inc.
Our Business, Is Keeping Your Business - Your Business!
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Our Business, Is Keeping Your Business - Your Business! |
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Welcome to our web site. I hope that you will find it useful to your research. As I developed the company I made use of the Internet to seek information for our marketing plan, to locate equipment, records retention information, recycling information and far more. I have tried to make your search easier with our site's information.
WesTex Becomes First in Texas to earn Privacy+ Certification.
PAST Newsletters: Click on one to view a pdf version of the issue to print out on your printer. Oct 2011 Sep 2011 August 2011 July 2011 June 2011 May 2011 Apr 2011 Mar 2011 Feb 2011 Jan 2011 Dec 2010 Nov 2010 Oct 2010 Sep 2010 Aug 2010 Jul 2010 Jun 2010 May 2010 Apr 2010 Mar 2010 Feb 2010 Jan 2010
Earthquake Damage in Vaults Depending on your frame of reference, August 24th is a day of relief or a day of clean up. Some of the pundit’s jokingly refer to the earthquake as having occurred on the well known “Bush’s Fault Line” - but these same writers ran out of their offices and news stations in full panic just before 2:00 PM along with Federal workers. Reporters quickly searched out the infamous concrete block walls that routinely develop large cracks or in some cases collapse when exposed to rumbling earthquakes. The rigid building material simply does not do well with the 10,000 mile per hour earthquake shock waves so they make excellent photos for page one of the newspaper and the evening news.
 So here we are in late August
closing bridges, and overpasses to assess the damage. Airports closed down and
trains stopped running as experts tried to determine what to do in an
earthquake. As one blogger wrote: “I was so confused. I broke out my own
front window, grabbed my big screen TV and ran out on the front lawn! Can you
blame me? I was confused!”
What you should see in the headlines is “FIRELOCK Fireproof Vaults once again withstood the local earthquakes and experienced No Damage!! So Wednesday August 24th is just another day for the 1,700 businesses that selected FIRELOCK for their vital records protection. Nuclear Power sites, U.S. Defense Department sites and Health Organizations functioned normally because the FIRELOCK Vaults carry a Zone IV Certification. In the offsite media storage industry 85 different service providers with millions and millions of tape back up stored in these vaults had another uneventful day!
At WesTex Document, Inc., our FIRELOCK Vault is the only commercial vault of its type in the region. Our nuclear industry customer stores their sensitive documents in our vault and we are the only privately held corporation in American NQA-1 approved for the nuclear industry. It is why we are who we are, and reconfirm’s our position of “Our Business, Is Keeping Your Business – Your Business!”
Last month, Texas Governor Rick Perry signed a health privacy bill into law (see the attached copy of the final language) that imposes re-newed obligations exceeding the requirements in the HIPAA Privacy Rule. The law, which will become effective on September 1, 2012, incorporates the expanded definition of the term “covered entity” in Texas’s existing health privacy law and could have a broad impact on many non-HIPAA covered entities. Several years ago the legislature passed legislation to make health privacy in Texas more stringent and the following year special interest groups caused the legislature to gut the law, but the term “covered entity” language of any entity that engages in “assembling, collecting, analyzing, using, evaluating, storing, or transmitting protected health information,” as well as any entity that “comes into possession of” or “obtains or stores” protected health information (“PHI”) remained. The current legislature put the teeth back into the law, recognizing the seriousness of the continuing breaches of privacy (not to mention the fact that our Texas state government actually sells medical lists to anyone that wants to fork over the money to get them). Notably, the new Texas health privacy law:
We can provide free training to assist in compliance and also help you develop a destruction/storage policy that will help you met minimum necessary rules. For over 11 years we have told prospects that not only is it the correct thing to do, but it is far less expensive than federal or state fines, or law suit settlements. The recent Texas case makes our point, where a national medical company paid the state of Texas nearly $1 million after reaching a settlement with the state Attorney General's Office over improper discarding of medical records at a Levelland clinic. Select Physical Therapy Texas Limited Partnership and parent company Select Medical Corp. will pay the state $990,000 - $890,000 of which will go to the general revenue fund to be used exclusively for the investigation and prosecution of identity theft cases. "The overarching message is that in these cases, one of the most important aspects is the defendant will amend procedures to ensure protection of personal information," said Dirk Fillpot, a spokesman for the Attorney General's Office.
Digital Photocopiers Loaded With Secrets - CBSNews URL: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/04/19/eveningnews/main6412439.shtml April 2010 ACCREDITATION TASK FORCE TAPS INDUSTRY VETERAN The NAID Task Force responsible for creating the recently announced NAID Professional Accreditation Program is proud to announce that John Miller will join the effort. At its recent conference and in an article in the most recent NAIDnews (“What’s Next, Part III”, March 2010), NAID unveiled its plan to launch a professional accreditation program in July of this year. The program will allow members in the US to develop the requisite competence on issues related to secure destruction and then, by completing the designated testing, to be accredited as Certified Secure Destruction Specialists ™ (CSDS). According to task force leader John Mesrobian (this year’s Member of the Year recipient), “We are delighted to add John Miller’s knowledge and perspective to our efforts. His experience in the industry and in NAID, as well as his familiarity with other successful accreditation processes will help us create a better program.” The NAID Accreditation Task Force will publish a list of readily available training resources and opportunities in June – including the next available CTK training opportunities. Testing for the new accreditation will be available at the beginning of 2011. March 2010 Identity Theft Still Major Concern December 1, 2009 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE (Click to read) WesTex was the first company in Texas to earn industry certification and the fourth in the country back when the program started. We are proud to announce that both our plant and mobile operations have passed their 8th audit for renewed certification. November 25, 2009 GOING GREEN (click to read). We recently had an article published in our storage industry news magizine. May 18, 2009 - FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE (Click to read article) While many areas of the country are bleeding jobs left and right, WesTex Document is getting (8) summer hires for free from the local workforce commission from federal stimulus money, and was awarded a second jobs incentive package from the Lubbock Economic Development Corp.
May 12, 2009 Our strategic partners from ONeil software stopped in to visit us on their fund raising ride from the PRISM annual conference in Daytona Beach on their way back to Los Angles. They were riding bikes to raise money for a world hunger charity and stopped in to get a $1,000 check from us.
June 11, 2008—FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE (Click to read PR) Nuclear Quality Assurance Recognition. "Based on satisfactory responses to our audit and verifications of corrective action implementation, WesTex Document is approved for Nuclear Quality Assurance (NQA-1) document storage without restrictions." FACTA - Fair and Accurate Credit Transaction Act of 2003 Keep it For Ever? Learn more about Records Retention Now offering Remote Secure Service Do you have just a small amount needing secure destruction? Would it be impractical for us to come and get it or for you to bring it to us? Then this secure service is for you! FUEL SURCHARGES Every company operating large trucks and service vehicles for several years now have had to contend with the ever changing price of fuel in their operations. It is a cost of operation that makes fixing your prices for customers simply impossible. How do you lock in a one or two year contract for a customer if fuel prices are going to go up or down? That is why FEDEX, UPS, Texas Lone Star, and many others have had a policy for years of charging a fuel surcharge percentage applied to their customer's invoices. To keep our costs down and still make the same profit to cover operations we must do the same. Below is our fuel surcharge system, it is the exact program as these companies utilze. We will post the current monthly rate, based upon what we are averaging for the previous month. When fuel prices increase the rate goes up, when they decrease the rate goes down and we will keep the rates posted here for all to see by clicking on the link to view the current table.
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