4 Tips for Keeping Your Company Physically Secure
You have a lot invested in your company in terms of tangible assets and human resources. Physical security is crucial to protect your assets and maintain the safety of your employees. Of course, you face virtual security threats, such as ransomware attacks, that may negatively affect both you and your employees. Nevertheless, however serious it may be, a cyber attack against your company is unlikely to result in violence, injuries, and death. Therefore, physical security absolutely has to be one of your top priorities. Here are some tips for keeping you and your employees safe and your physical assets secure.
1. Identify Your Weak Points
You should perform an audit of your existing security to identify any weaknesses. Criminals look for the path of least resistance into a building, so any weak areas are the points that they will target. You not only have to find the vulnerable points but identify the ways they are most likely to be threatened. For example, if you think that pedestrians may try to go over a wall or a fence after hours, you may benefit from an anti-climb door from Delta Scientific. If your property is vulnerable to vehicle attack, you may benefit from bollards designed to prevent a vehicle’s forward motion while allowing foot traffic to proceed normally and blend into your exterior décor. If you want to keep unauthorized vehicles out of your parking lot while allowing passage to employees and legitimate visitors, a beam barricade may provide the necessary traffic control. Identifying the potential threats in specific, concrete ways helps you to choose the most effective security solution.
2. Install Proper Lighting
Many people underestimate how effective lighting can be as a deterrent to theft or violent crime. A person who has no criminal intent takes lighting on the premises for granted. However, those who seek to commit an offense against you, your company, or your employees know that light makes them visible, meaning that they can be identified. Criminals prefer to work under cover of darkness to avoid detection. While proper lighting may be an effective crime deterrent by itself, it can also help security cameras to work more effectively, meaning that the attempted crime may not necessarily need a witness to catch the person responsible.
3. Plan for Emergencies
Your employees should have a role to play in the physical security of your company. When everybody knows what to do and how to do it, the company’s response to the threat is more efficient and employees are less likely to panic or otherwise impede safety efforts. For example, if you have high-security barricades or sliding gates installed on your property, designated personnel should be instructed on operating their controls so that they can act quickly in an emergency.
4. Take a Proactive Approach
Continue to review and monitor your security plan on an ongoing basis. A lack of vigilance due to complacency can cause more weaknesses and vulnerabilities to develop that bad actors can then exploit. The plan should undergo regular re-assessment and improvements to make sure you are at least one step ahead of anyone who might want to do harm to you, your employees, or your assets.
Creating a safe environment may help to increase employee loyalty, job satisfaction, and retention. It is in your interest both professionally and personally, since you could also be vulnerable to a physical threat.
Sources:
https://www.siaonline.org/5-ways-on-how-to-maintain-physical-security-in-a-company/
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