Protect & Survive A


s lockdown restrictions are slowly lifted and London’s workforce begins to emerge, Barry Dawson, operations director at Wilson


James, examines the impact the coronavirus pandemic has had on the capital’s security sector and how service providers are preparing for the ‘new normal’.


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During this tumultuous period all aspects of our personal and work lives have changed. The coronavirus pandemic is having obvious implications for business continuity across the entire economy, and business in all industries and market sectors are adapting to a very different operational landscape. Security services providers are no exception and as the lockdown restrictions begin to ease, their role in protecting people is more critical than ever.


The security services sector is well positioned to deal with these new challenges – identifying potential risks and managing them is what we do. However, there will be some fundamental differences to how this is achieved and, with the situation changing so rapidly, companies need to be flexible, agile and quick to react. Before people do return to their offices ‘en masse’, it must be safe enough for them to do so and effective systems have to be in place. Since lockdown was first announced, forward thinking organisations have spent time training their employees so that they can hit the ground running.


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