4 Questions you need to ask about your Warehouse security measures
Careful thought and planning is a must when tackling the fire and security requirements of a building of such size found in warehousing and distribution centres. No one security solution can solve the multiple challenges of warehouse security.
To protect a property of size and complexity, it is required to look way beyond a one-size-fits-all security system - one of the first steps you can take is to seek advice of a professional fire and security surveyor.
By conducting a full site survey, experts can begin to build a picture of the environment, weaknesses in your existing security measures, as well as day-to-day routines and circumstances within your business that are unique to you.
"No one security solution can solve the multiple challenges of protecting a warehouse or distribution centre from risk"
Questions you need to ask of your current fire and security measures
Security measures have evolved to become a part of a routine precaution, helping you not only manage your business from afar, but also improve the efficiency of your warehouse with business intelligence systems.
How are you protecting staff that work night shifts, at times when your business is most vulnerable?
Does your current security measures tie-in with reinforcing your health and safety policy?
Is your security proactively helping you to manage access to your property? Staff access/absence or time on site?
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1 in 4 businesses never recover from fire damage
Warehouses are considered to be a high fire risk. With potentially million pounds worth of stock being held on-site, it is vital for your fire system to be capable of detecting risk at the earliest possible moment - able to alert the emergency services, or suppress the risk itself.
What steps can you take?
Making monitoring health and safety easier
As health and safety demands for accountability increase, your security system can begin to lend a helping hand in tracking staff movements and providing frame-for-frame evidence on false trip/fall claims.
A security system alone is created to perform one task, however by tailoring the system to work with one of more measures, you benefit from a much more powerful and intelligent end solution. For example, your surveillance cameras can detect not only intruders, but used internally to watch over your employees.
Tailored systems can help you to:
Employee Access and Time Management
In large warehouses it can be difficult to keep track of your employees and their movements day-to-day, including shift changes and staff absences. With an intelligent access control system in place, you can begin to track staff movements, view audit trails and authorise or restrict access at the touch of a button.
Access control can also play a vital role in health and safety, preventing staff from operating machinery that is under repair or outside of their remit.
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