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The Top 5 Reasons Why Your Business Needs an Office Security System

Like most entrepreneurs, you understand that your business represents a massive investment of time, capital, and resources. To succeed in your entrepreneurial journey, you need to ensure that you protect your company and assets from harm. The question is how best to safeguard those interests. For many business owners, the answer is simple: get an office security system. Surprisingly, though, many of today’s businesses continue to lack any real type of security to protect property, employees, assets, and even the company’s reputation. Here are five of the top reasons why your company should have an office security system.

Effective Security Systems Can Deter Most Crimes

Crime is always a threat to any business and can rob you of your profits, productivity, and future. Unfortunately, crime can take many forms, from burglaries and vandalism to employee theft. The problem is that no business owner can ever hope to see everything that is happening at his company. An office security system can be the ideal tool for reducing the risk of crime, using video surveillance and state-of-the-art access systems that are demonstrably effective in deterring would-be criminals.

An Office Security System Can Help You Improve Efficiency

The right office security system can even help make your business more efficient by improving your ability to monitor everything that takes place on your business premises. That can help you to identify poor employee work habits, interaction with customers, and other critical concerns that can directly impact your firm’s productivity and profitability.

Your Office Security System May Save You Money on Insurance

The installation of a quality office security system can even potentially impact your insurance costs. Just as auto insurance companies offer discounts for security features in vehicles, some insurers will discount rates for companies that take security seriously. Given the need to control costs, this is one benefit that every company can appreciate. To see if your insurer provides discounts for installed security systems, simply contact your insurance agent and ask.

Security Systems Can Provide Remote Monitoring Capabilities

A quality security system will include surveillance capabilities. Today’s surveillance often includes remote monitoring, which can offer several key benefits. First, these remote systems can provide a way to quickly contact the relevant emergency response personnel when an intrusion or other incidents occur. Many of the best systems provide immediate alerts to that personnel, as well as notifications to the business owner, ensuring the quickest possible response.  In addition, there are even remote systems that enable you to view surveillance camera activity on feeds you can access even when you’re not on the premises.

Security Systems Can Help Protect Against False Liability Claims

In a lawsuit-happy society, any business can quickly become the victim of a false liability claim. Slip-and-fall artists can strike without warning, using false claims of injuries as justification to sue your company. A security system with constant surveillance can often provide the best evidence against these types of claims, helping to protect your investment against malicious litigation. If a picture truly is worth a thousand words, then it’s no wonder most juries recognize the value of video evidence!

Your Company’s Office Security System Can Provide Real Peace of Mind

Of course, all these important benefits can perhaps best be summed up in three words: peace of mind. Because your business is an investment, it’s only natural to worry about all the many things that threaten it each day. The good news is that you don’t have to be consumed with worry. There are preventive steps that you can take to better protect yourself, your employees, your property, and your business investments, and you can take that all-important first step by getting your business the office security system it needs.

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George Kozhar

George Kozhar is a respected security professional, licensed private investigator, and founder of International Security Services (ISS) - New York City’s dedicated security experts since 1999. Mr. Kozhar and his team provide a full array of private and business investigative services in the U.S. and overseas, VIP executive protection, armed and unarmed security guard services and training, and Fire and Life Safety Director training through the company’s Fire Science Institute.

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Your Individualized Property Evaluation Report

Your site’s individualized property evaluation report contains information and analysis that you need to properly manage your site’s security needs. That information includes detailed analysis of the crime rate in your area, site access and parking protocols, and existing security infrastructure. Interior inspection includes analysis of emergency exits, fire suppression capabilities, and alarm infrastructure for emergencies. Exterior inspection includes analysis of structural defects, property lighting, and potential vulnerabilities in building access.

In addition to those inspections, our analysis also considered environmental factors, potential risks from older trees, outside property maintenance, and nearby crime that may overflow to the area. We also examined emergency response planning, including fire evacuation protocols and information supplied to residents about proper evacuation process.

 

Pressing Suggestions


We highly suggest a camera placement along this driveway, as the overhead cameras in the back parking lot may not capture all makes, models, and license plates of cars entering in and out based on the angle they are recording from. The best camera placement would be at the green circle closest to the sidewalk/street.
The common area is easily accessible, but based on the angle that cameras are set at the front lot, anyone can enter the basement common area concealing the side of their face that is facing the camera. This is not to say that the camera arrangement should be changed, but it is highly recommended to have coverage in this common area as the common area is on a lower floor not visible from the sidewalk.


However, a few fundamental problems exist when it comes to access control of the back parking (a big territory). Even though only two issues have ever occurred there, the wide-open access point to that lot may need to be corrected sooner than later as there is a significant uptick in crime in the 62nd precinct.

Furthermore, there are two fundamental surveillance blind spots along the driveway leading to the back parking lot and every common area.

Lastly, however unlikely it may seem, tenants should have resources and a physical guide for situations that may require an evacuation. Whether it be a flood or fire, each tenant should know how to use a fire extinguisher and where to evacuate to during a flood regardless of their proximity to a shoreline.


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