PERSONAL/HOME SECURITY
Regardless of where you live, each of us should be very aware of our own personal safety and security. However, as we get comfortable with a routine we tend to take our safety and security for granted. Corporate aviation is anything but routine. In this industry you can, even without your
knowing it, become a target for robbery, intelligence gathering, or worse.
It is wise to always maintain your situational awareness and use some common sense tactics in your business and personal lives. Recommendations for your home include: • Use only your first initial and last name on your mailbox. • Use only your first initial and last name in a telephone book listing.
• Use only your first initial and last name, your office address, and your office or cell phone number on your baggage tags. NO personal addresses!
• Use only the best locks available, and be sure to have a deadbolt lock installed on all outside doors.
• Install a good quality lock on your bedroom door.
• Install a telephone in the bedroom. If possible, buy a telephone with speed-dial so you can program one button to dial “911.” Dialing from your home phone instantly provides 911 with your home address. Using a cell phone does not and the majority of all mobile 911 calls go to State Troopers.
• Install Caller ID on your telephone.
• Because some criminals will first cut the phone lines before they attempt to make contact with their would-be victim, keep your mobile phone in the bedroom next to the bed - charged.
• Do not open your door to strangers. If it’s necessary to do so, be sure to check their identification through a window or through-the-door peephole first.
• If you’re still unsure after checking their I.D., call the company or utility they profess to work for and ask for that person’s supervisor.
• Show no signs of predictability by allowing certain lights to remain on in your home no matter whether you’re at home or away. This will keep a would-be criminal guessing.
• Use an answering machine to screen your phone calls so it cannot be used to find out if you’re at home.
• Never allow a stranger into your home to use your telephone. Instead, tell them that you’ll make the phone call for them.
• Keep duct tape in the bedroom (seals doors and windows - fire). • Keep a smoke hood next to your bed. • Keep a flashlight beside your bed.
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