Keeping your commercial building or property safe and secure is, on the whole, not as difficult as it may seem. The best way to ensure safety and security for your property is to exercise constant vigilance.
Best Practices for Safety
Improve Your Lighting: One of the most important aspects of guaranteeing building safety is by improving your lighting. Even though the summer days are long, you still need to be sure that your parking lot and walkways remain well-lit. That way, you can reduce the incidence of accidents and collisions outside your building. Proper lighting levels also discourage the presence of intruders and vandals who will be too concerned about being caught to break in.
Enhance Emergency Preparedness: Emergencies can happen at any time, and no matter how often you prepare for them, you can never know for sure what kind of emergency situation will happen. Whether it is fire damage caused by downed power lines or ruined inventory due to flooding water damage, you need to have a disaster recovery plan in place for every possible type of emergency.
Best Practices for Security
Update Alarm Systems: If you have yet to update or upgrade your alarm system this summer, then now is the time to do it. Alarms are your first warning of an incident and alert your security guards to respond to an intrusion or to assist customers who may become lost, disoriented, or hurt during an emergency situation.
Implement Visitor Control: Another good practice is to implement and maintain visitor control procedures. Because visitors come and go all day, you must keep track of all the entrances leading in and out of your building. Using sign-in and sign-out policies can help you identify the visitors on your property and provide guidance if they are accessing areas they shouldn’t, or inadvertently opening emergency doors. Unlike regular entry doors, emergency doors need to be secured with alarms that will sound if the door is opened when it is not supposed to be.
Increase Security Presence: Once you have a strong visitor control procedure in place, you can turn your attention to recruiting and training security guards. After all, adding security guards to your staff is a smart investment to improve your building safety. Another way to increase security presence is by using available technology. Acquiring and installing the latest advancements in security technology also makes a difference in securing your property, especially if you intend to create checkpoints staffed by experienced security guards.
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