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| Practical Measures for Protecting Your Business |
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 Your security system is a proven deterrent to thieves and vandals
Train personnel on its proper operation.
Security systems reduce crime in commercial settings. Businesses and institutions without alarm systems are 4.5 times more likely to be burglarized than those that have an alarm system. Source: Commercial Security: Burglary Patterns and Security Measures, Metrica, Inc.
Of all uncompleted burglaries, 74% can be credited to an audible alarm. Source: Securing Home and Business, Hakim and Blackstone. Your alarm system will detect and report attempts to break into secured areas.
Your system warns of fire before you can see or smell it--giving personnel time to escape to safety.
Use your system to report medical emergencies and reduce liability--summon expert medical help at the press of a button.
 If you don't already have a security system, CCTV, or access control--
Make security a company benefit by promoting the value of vigilance.
Communicate routine practices for deliveries and shipments so personnel can recognize unusual behavior.
Discuss protocols for greeting visitors and exposing imposters.
Establish identification and badging procedures.
Establish security teams that have specific duties.
 Make your facility a less attractive target for burglars and vandals.
Light the entryways of your facility to make hiding or entering undetected more difficult.
Avoid landscaping that provides hiding places.
Keep doors and gates locked--an obvious step that most victims have ignored.
Put away ladders or other objects that would assist a burglar in reaching an upper window.
Do you have privacy fencing? If someone gets into your facility, would the fence provide cover for the thief while he breaks in?
 Control shrinkage
Employee theft may be the most critical threat to your operation. Provide access to assets on a need-only basis.
Establish layers of security: Secure portable items with locks and lock the rooms in which they are stored.
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