7 Useful Tips to Improve Your Workplace Security

Unfortunately, many business owners have learned this the hard way and have enforced their security systems after a breach has already happened. Why wait for an accident, when you can prevent it from the start? Here are some tips on how to do just that.  

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1. Install Alarms and Video Surveillance System

This is one of the most useful things you can do for your workplace. The experts at TeraPixels.net have pointed out the importance of prevention, rather than cure. If you install an alarm and video surveillance system in your workplace, you will have a full grasp of the situation at hand in real-time, which will give you the opportunity to stop it before any further damage is done to you and your employees. It could be an armed robbery or a simple theft, with video surveillance you will have the hard evidence and even the possible clues on who is the perpetrator. It will give you a significant advantage when trying to keep your workspace safe and your employees well taken care of.

2. Work on Improving Cybersecurity

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Unfortunately, small businesses overlook the importance of cybersecurity more often than larger ones. However, in this day and age, when everything is digitalized and available in only a few clicks, a good cybersecurity system is crucial for the well-being of your business. Every digital information that you own on your work computer should be kept under complicated passwords. Also, everyone who is working for you should have their own computer and on it only the part of work that belongs to them. Make a copy of the copy of the copy of everything you own, as it is better to be safe than sorry.  

3. Organize Security Awareness Meetings

Everyone that works for you, whether they are a cleaner or a CEO should know the dangers that could happen at any moment. That is why organizing security awareness meetings and seminars at least once a year is extremely important. Everyone should be well aware of your emergency procedures and should know what to do in the situation of a breach. This will give your workers a sense of security and they will know how to handle the situation at hand.

4. Plan Emergency Procedure

Every business plans its own emergency procedure in accordance with their needs and the type of service that they offer. Installing a security button that will automatically alarm the law enforcement in case of an emergency, or train your workers how to defend themselves in case the business is attacked in some way. Also, it is important to organize emergency training led by a professional at least every six months, so that the workers will get reminded of the emergency procedure in case of a break-in, fire, or even if they have to perform CPR. 

5. Never Leave a Customer Unsupervised

It is alright to be trusting of your customers and clients, but at the same time, you need to hold a healthy dose of paranoia. Ask your workers to be careful about the customer's browsing habits and if you hold meetings in your office never leave them alone in it. Security cameras are extremely helpful with this, but there is a possibility that they have blind spots or there is no one who will monitor them in real-time.

6. Have Access Control

Not everyone needs to be privy to every part of the business and have the same information. By giving access control to certain information only to the people that need to have it, you will lower the chances of them misusing or abusing it. That way, even if something happens, you will know who had the access to the information at hand, by which you will tighten the circle of possible suspects significantly. 

7. Proper Identification

All the people that work for you need to have identification cards with their names and positions. That will lower the chances of intruders and will even help the client know who to ask for help. This is especially important for bigger companies, as there are a lot of workers and you probably can't remember them all. There are digital identification cards with which you can unlock certain documents only if they respond to your position.

Final Word

Safety should be the primary concern of every business owner. It should be the first thing you invest in when starting a business. Unfortunately, there are a lot of people who would try to disrupt the safety of your business, however small you think it is. There is no reason to let it happen, as it can be prevented easily.

Marvin Fry

Update 16 October 2020