Crisis Can Help Improve Your Physical Security
From healthcare and utilities to retail and food processing, COVID-19 has forced many industries to rethink everything they thought they knew about their physical security systems and measures. In fact, there is no better time to look at your physical security through a new lens than during a crisis, and what you learn can propel the success of your facility.
Are There Gaps in Your Commercial Security?
One of the top ways a crisis can help improve your physical security is by helping highlight any existing gaps in security and identify areas that could be improved. For example, it may be that your facility could benefit from increased access control in certain areas to help limit exposure to viral threats, or perhaps your video surveillance needs to be updated to technologies that include detecting elevated body temperature or that track processes and products. Perhaps your systems are not fully integrated, causing you to miss critical information. Evaluating your system capabilities under the stress of a crisis can help you identify gaps that need to be addressed.
Are You Using System Capabilities to the Fullest?
One of the most valuable lessons we can learn from crisis is how crisis can help to use our systems to their fullest potential. Crisis can help forces innovation and economy and one of the first things we learn is that the technologies we have do far more than we knew. The latest crisis has forced facilities to meet new needs such as:
- crisis can help Increased production
- crisis can help Observe social distancing
- crisis can help Increased safety measures
- crisis can help Working with reduced staff
- crisis can help Monitoring the health of staff
- crisis can help Ensuring compliances
The increased needs during a crisis force system users to stretch system functionality and leverage these functions to:
- Enable more duties to be performed remotely
- Ensure the use of protective gear such as masks
- Protect airflow
- Protect and monitor the production process
- Increase efficiencies
Advancing Normal Operations
The next step is to take that knowledge and apply it to the advancement of normal operations. Security technologies can help your enterprise increase flexibility, pivot when needed, and provide the working knowledge you need to improve operations. Take the knowledge gained during crisis and ask these questions.
- Are the current systems adequate?
- Do we need better systems integration?
- Do we need a systems evaluation?
- Can we use the current system better to improve daily operations?
- What standards from the time of crisis should we keep during normal operations?
While we never choose to go through a time of crisis, we can use it to help identify security needs, refine our practices, and help our facility run more effectively and leanly in the future.
SSP offers best in class service and custom solutions to meet the unique needs of clients in every commercial vertical market and discipline. Our solutions are scalable and can grow with you as necessary and never lock you into proprietary systems that are cumbersome and without the ability to expand. The SSP Service Excellence program is top in its class, delivering the industry’s most complete after installation support.
