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Enhancing the Physical Security of Your Workplace

These guidelines will help ensure you offer a safe work environment for your employees.

  • If your workplace has access control, don’t allow employees to gain entrance by “piggy backing” their way in behind others.
  • Have security guards greet all visitors and examine personal belongings brought into the building or office area.
  • Restrict access to your workplace through locked or guarded entryways.
  • Keep storage rooms, boiler rooms, telephone and utility closets, and similar potential hiding places locked or off-limits to visitors.
  • Use distinct and separate ID badges for staff and visitors.
  • Require visitors to be accompanied by staff employees to and from the office or facility entrance.
  • Request visitors to display IDs to security personnel when they sign in.
  • Keep logs on the arrival and departure times of all visitors.
  • Consider hiring a certified protection professional to evaluate your company’s personnel and physical security safeguards.



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