HEALTH & SAFETY
When using the right solutions, this can enable Facilities Managers to not only achieve highest health and safety standards, but also make compliance a seamless part of every day life.
“THIS CURRENT RISE IN ‘INHOUSE BURGLARY’ RANGES FROM PETTY THEFT TO STEALING HIGHER VALUE
ITEMS SUCH AS IT EQUIPMENT.”
KEY MANAGEMENT Traditionally, keys have been
“managed” by a particular department holding ‘keys on hooks’ (sometimes in a metal cabinet), and keeping a manual record of any keys distributed or loaned out, with the potential for keys to be copied either as back up, or for malicious intent to access unauthorised areas.
Alternatively, you can have the most sophisticated, internet enabled, biometric scanning system in the world but if the credentials (whether keys, fobs or access cards) are not properly managed, then not only will security will be breached swiftly, but also misplaced keys can cause health and safety issues and incur expensive downtime.
EQUIPMENT PROTECTION The equipment within the workplace
for Facilities Managers can range from the protection of physical buildings, to security equipment such as radios and PDA’s, through managing data.
This current rise in ‘inhouse burglary’ ranges from petty theft of supplies that can be re-sold easily or used in domestic homes, could easily extend to concerted efforts to steal higher value items such as IT equipment. The secondary issue facing workplaces today is where employees tend to bring their own devices to work, such as iPads and Smart Phones, and have a level of expectation about keeping them secure.
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Whilst the cost of replacing such equipment may not be bank breaking, the increasing real risks of cyber crime, from a personal perspective and with confidential and identity related data contained on a stolen laptop is far more valuable in the wrong hands and opens up the organisation to a very different level of criticism and legal challenge.
“MISPLACED KEYS CAN CAUSE HEALTH AND SAFETY ISSUES AND INCUR EXPENSIVE DOWNTIME.”
SMART SOLUTIONS The smart solution for managing
these scenarios is to make use of increasingly intelligent key cabinets and locker systems, as available from Traka. These present a fully auditable system so that Facilities Managers can understand exactly who has taken which item, when it was removed and when it has (or was meant to be) returned.
Traka can also provide solutions to control, manage and audit equipment use so that downtime is reduced, staff are held accountable and restricted access can be preserved
by assigning each individual user, selected access rights.
Traka’s product range is well known for its security benefits. Our key and equipment management systems offer greater accountability and restrict people from accessing sensitive areas of a business; and there is no room for human error or misuse.
Traka software can also be programmed in a large variety of ways that suit the individual workplace, according to the challenges they face to ensure health and safety legislation is adhered to.
In summary, health and safety is part and parcel of everyday business and life in the workplace, whereby every employer has a duty to keep its staff and customers safe and secure.
But in an era when there are increasingly sophisticated and complex control systems available and more and more reliance on technology, it is very easy to lose sight of the more obvious solutions that can ensure that a workplace does take HSE compliance requirements seriously.
Such solutions allow Facilities Managers to remain vigilant about making sure a workplace protects people and equipment, and maintains health and safety standards for everyone who works and visits a site.
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