Feeling Safer from Terrorism at Work, Home, School, and Wherever People Congregate

The recent increase in terrorism related events worldwide had me thinking about ways in which we keep ourselves safer. The mass shootings and bombings in Paris earlier this month are but one very visible example. Truly, these things are happening every week in our world now. We are always increasing our sense of vigilance, and how we monitor our surroundings, managing who and what we associate with, and being careful about who and what can come into our "safe" areas, like work, home, schools, worship places, recreation, and the like.

Since 2000 I have been working in the "Entrance Control" industry. Essentially we are the industry who designs and builds hardware and technology to help control and manage "who is getting into" buildings, campuses, and complexes. We working within the integrated security access control platform to provide some means (physical/electronic) of allowing only authorized persons in, and keeping out (or singling out) individuals who "do not belong". In this way we help provide safety and security for folks where they work, live, play, and congregate. Of course no security device or solution is perfect, but entrance control products generally do a very nice job of discouraging unwanted access. Sometimes we are only keeping out nuisance visitors (like an unexpected vendor or a restaurant delivery service with advertising fliers) but we also help discourage disgruntled ex-employees and jilted ex-lovers and the like. Most importantly in today's world the entrance control products will prevent easy access by someone with a plan to do harm - and that is one of the main draws toward security entrance control systems today.

Typically the entrance control system selected for a front lobby will be a bank of turnstiles or optical security turnstile lanes, or maybe security portals (mantraps) or security revolving doors. All of these products can be customized to suit corporate culture, security policy, and aesthetic concerns by facilities managers, architects and interior designers. Other types of entrance control systems can be used outdoors and may include vehicle gates, rising arms or rising fence gate operators, parking gates or bollards.  Often the products will be UL listed for safety and many will be IP Network ready for ease of management, control, statistics and diagnostics by the security department.

In the coming months I will write more on this topic. I think you for visiting my page and please contact me anytime for more information, by clicking here for email or my company website:. www.automatic-systems.com