Are You Actively Participating In Your Business Security?

The Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine sought a numeric way to determine safety value. Researchers investigated whether there was a connection between companies that emphasized business safety in their culture, and stock market performance.

They went about comparing a group of safe companies that had been commended for business security and safety leadership by checking their stock performance against the S&P 500 over a similar period.
The results were astounding!

Over thirteen years, the returns on the “safe company index” were 333 percent. During that same timeframe, the S&P 500 returned 105 percent. The safe companies had outperformed the S&P 500 by nearly three times over!

It turns out that business safety and operating a profitable company are not mutually exclusive.

A successful company should be synonymous with being a safe company. Protecting your business with security and safety measures is just as important as product quality, or innovation.

The key point is that your safety program and business security systems impact your operation in a meaningful way--a financial way. Your involvement as an owner cannot be overestimated.

Take a moment to evaluate your business against SCW’s Security Audit Checklist. How many of the boxes can you check off that apply to your current security measures?

Outdoor boundaries

Fence or hedge: Creates an unmistakable barrier around your business or between the parking lot and business entrance.

Walkways: Establish clearcut boundaries between public areas and your business property.

Foliage close to buildings’ perimeters: Planned landscaping involves both placement and variety selection. Dense and thorny shrubs, especially when close to windows, make intrusion difficult.

Fence maintenance: Regular checks for instances of any downed fence, holes in the fence, and adjacent trees with limbs growing over the fence that would allow intrusion.

Removal of foliage that blocks surveillance camera system’s view of entrances and any other crucial locations.

Removal of trash and fallen limbs: Shows potential intruders that the facilities are occupied and cared for.

Outdoor lighting

Strong outdoor lighting: This is a major deterrent to criminals who fear exposure. It also enables improved quality of your business security system’s video footage.

Lighting at all entry points to buildings: Well-lit corridors for customer/employee foot traffic between your facility and their vehicles in the parking lot after dark.

Avoidance of lighting that interferes with surveillance cameras systems by creating glare.

Building appearance

Remove all graffiti: The presence of graffiti is both a sign of local gang presence and disinterest or inactivity on the part of the business owner.

Repair chipped paint: Shows conscientiousness on the part of the owner.
Keep window and door glass clean.

Maintain appearance of all signage: Shabby signage is a suggestion of lack of attention to detail. That might translate into a lack of a business security system to the criminal mind.

Keep landscape foliage neatly trimmed: More than appearance, this allows for unimpeded views to anyone approaching the building and avoids blocking CCTV cameras’ fields of views.

Monitor all access points

Monitor all entry points with a secretary, security guard, or a security camera system.

Keep all doors electronically locked and entry granted only through an Access Control system.

Regularly check all window and door locks.

Good housekeeping

Keep walking areas free of obstructions: Avoid liability issues and theft probability by keeping floor areas open and clean.

Don’t obscure security camera system views with stacked merchandise.

Clean surveillance camera lenses monthly to optimize image quality.

Develop a surveillance ecosystem that meets modern needs

Keep up with the latest technology that could enhance your current business security system.

Take advantage of the best cybersecurity measures available to protect your private data.

Seek the help of a security system design professional to ensure that your investment is as safe as possible.

Enlist the aid of SCW

The surveillance industry is seeing significant advancements. New expectations of what a business security system should do are leading to new approaches. Rethinking your existing surveillance system should be a high priority.

SCW’s design professionals can cut through all the noise and get you straight to the heart of what works best for your individual needs. We offer professional-grade equipment from the tried-and-true up to the latest cutting-edge technology available anywhere.

We can meet all your new product requirements or provide an
AI Analytics-Powered software program to supercharge your existing security camera system. No new surveillance cameras for you to buy. And all of them, unlimited in number or nationwide locations, on one login, the same single dashboard.

Survail is its name. Contact us for a free demo.

AI and Analytics-powered software employed in Survail has broken the time barrier. Now your business security system can detect and distinguish incident threats and then alert you as they are occurring, in real-time.

Immediate notifications mean no delays. First responders can be included on the notification list and receive identical alerts either by text message, email, or phone call. Response time goes from several minutes to immediate. Time is saved. Outcomes are altered. Lives are saved. Property losses are minimalized.

Smart AI and Analytics also reduce the number of false alerts. Fewer false positives mean fewer email notifications. Security employees can then act in an event-based fashion rather than continuously staring at a video monitor.

More than ever, your business security system can work for you in a hands-off fashion while also benefiting you with major time and labor savings.

Step into the future

You can’t get too much security. Your property, your equipment, your merchandise, employees, and your data all need the utmost measures of protection you can get. Outdated equipment and weak computer protocols are prime, soft targets for both intruders and hackers. Cybercrime in particular is a gigantic threat in an age where the theft of personal information can be readily converted into cash.

Safeguards are available. The great news is that they pay for themselves from the first day of installation.

Don’t believe it? Take a look at our article 7 Ways Small Business Security Systems Pay For Themselves.

SCW is offering the future of business security systems to you. The choice is yours.

Make the move to complete security. Come join our satisfied SCW family.