There's no one size fits all when providing protection for your household or business. Depending on your unique needs, situation, and location you may need one or all of the available electronic solutions to your security issues. This is why we take the Loss Prevention Approach to providing security solutions.
As an example, you may be a plant manager and are required to go and check up on the line to ensure that things are running smoothly. If you have a large facility, say for instance, 300,000 sq. ft., it could take you a substantial time to make your rounds to do your inspections. If you need to do this a few times a day, day it takes away from being able to perform your other duties. Especially when you discover that there is an issue that you need to address.
There are some inherent issues with this scenario. These problems tend to compound upon themselves....
1. Since you are only one person, you can only be at one place at a time. If there are multiple problems with production, how long does it take to identify that there is a problem?
2. How much productivity has been lost both from your crew and you because you have to deal with the issues.
CCTV Video monitoring can help to ensure that you are identifying problems early.
Too often alarm companies and security contractors take the “get in and get out” attitude when selling security. The customer calls up an alarm company because they “need” a burglar or fire alarm and the alarm company gives them exactly that without asking what or why. They want to make a quick sale and get on to the next one.
We offer a FREE 36 point Security Audit of your home or business. This is designed to identify the risks that threaten not only your security and safety but also your day to day functions. This will help you increase productivity, and overall the bottom-line.
These days, forward thinking security vendors will take the Loss Prevention Approach to providing a complete security solution. A complete security solution will address present and future threats to your business and help achieve loss prevention in all areas of your operations.
A burglar alarm by itself will rarely deter, protect or solve anything. The author has witnessed many a burglary where the thief actually broke in through a window that had an alarm company’s sign right on it! Talk about deterrent- it was worthless! Many thieves are very aware of slow police response to burglar alarms in most big cities. They know that tripping the alarm means nothing if the police take twenty minutes to arrive or don’t even bother to respond at all.
A complete security solution and loss prevention plan would dictate window bars to slow the burglars long enough for police to arrive. It would ensure there are no false alarms to lull police into non-response. But the loss prevention approach also means helping the business owner or managers get a handle on all losses.
We know that more losses are caused by employees than by burglars. Did you know that 87% of losses come from employees while only 5% of shrinkage is from shoplifting? Further, 46% of employee theft occurs right at your checkout! Internal inventory shrinkage, shoplifting, slip & fall lawsuits, employee inefficiency, employee violence, embezzlement, improper accounting, fraudulent returns, waste, and low productivity are responsible for more business loss than burglaries. If you want to be more profitable than you need to look inward as well as outward.
Take a minute and schedule your FREE 36 Point Security Audit. Fill out the form on the right of the screen. We will identify the risks that threaten not only your security and safety but also your day to day functions. This will help you increase productivity, and overall the bottom-line.
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