Keep your products safe and secure at work
We all know as a business no matter how big or small you are that every product loss, breakage or items stolen, is a cost to the business that could cause short or long term issues.
We will often have a stock count of our products on the shelves or have a large warehouse the products are kept in for weeks. A lot of businesses will use shipping companies to take their products abroad or buy cheaper materials from different countries and bring them back to the UK. So this brings a question to mind how do we keep our stock safe.
Depending on what type of business you are, you may only need a very small space to keep those more valuable items secure and out of sight. You may see this in films where a business will have a safe installed in the wall with a fun picture in front of it to hide it or behind a false library front that opens like a door. These are sometimes key code locked, or an old fashioned turn the dial clockwise and anti clockwise and even fingerprint activated.
Some companies will use an offsite building like a storage facility that has locks to keep their products safe as well as utilising CCTV and other forms of security.
When sending products abroad you might utilise boxes that are key locked that only you and the recipient have access to keys to unlock the containers. Although this can sometimes be problematic. The trouble with a standard key lock is its normally easy to break or cut.
A great way to keep it extra safe is to get a Security Seal from links like https://acmeseals.co.uk where they have several choices to pick from and even special cutters to be able to remove the seals properly without damaging the products.
Sometimes in films companies will spend thousands of pounds installing touch sensitive devices that will set alarms when someone comes near, you might see infrared lasers shooting across the rooms and even cameras pointing in every direction. In reality this isn’t really an option for most people as companies don’t have thousands of pounds to spare. Also crime has changed a great deal from your traditional bank robber holding up the cashier with a gun to cyber crime and stealing thousands of pounds out of a bank with the click of a button to the most recent theft of a Toilet made from pure gold from Blenheim Palace.
