Large warehouses, big employee numbers, multiple vendors, and visitors all combined together can lead to your products walking out of the door. North American companies experience approximately $500,000 worth of product loss due to internal (employees) and external (mother nature) events.
Want to reduce that risk significantly? Here are 4 security lead protocols that work with your operations teams to reduce that risk significantly.
Consider the Product
If your product has metal components like phones or tablets, setting up metal detectors paired with setting up internal protocols can greatly reduce your risk. Monitoring what employees can and cannot bring into the warehouse is also critical. Additionally, mandating that all metal items like jackets with zippers, jewelry, keys, and cell phones be checked can help mitigate risk for those warehouses that deal with metal based products.
Should an employee, vendor, or visitor be free of metal walking through the warehouse, they must be free of metal walking out. Checking the serviceability and maintenance for your metal detector(s) is key for consistent metallic detection along with making sure you provide secure locker space for employee personal items they can access on the other side of the detector. Ensure there is proper distance between your detectors and other metal stationery items.
Entry and Exits
If your product has metal components like phones or tablets, setting up metal detectors paired with setting up internal protocols can greatly reduce your risk. Monitoring what employees can and cannot bring into the warehouse is also critical. Additionally, mandating that all metal items like jackets with zippers, jewelry, keys, and cell phones be checked can help mitigate risk for those warehouses that deal with metal based products.
Should an employee, vendor, or visitor be free of metal walking through the warehouse, they must be free of metal walking out. Checking the serviceability and maintenance for your metal detector(s) is key for consistent metallic detection along with making sure you provide secure locker space for employee personal items they can access on the other side of the detector. Ensure there is proper distance between your detectors and other metal stationery items.
Disposal of Trash
Planting products in the trash is a tactic that has been used to secret items out of the warehouse with a plan to retrieve them later. Monitoring how you dispose of trash and securing that area with a security guard is a great deterrent. This is a great place to also use a metal detector if the client protocol doesn’t intend to throw metal items away.
As part of our daily protocols, we report on vulnerable areas and work with the client to make sure that the changes they make in their internal protocols are directly supported with the JS Security teams.
Odd Behavior
Security staff are there to observe, report, and implement protocol. An experienced security team looks for odd or out-of-the-ordinary behavior and does not ignore it. Adding security monitors to likely compromised areas is a good deterrent and also allows for unobtrusive observation.
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