Why Access Control Systems Are Exactly What Your Business Needs

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Security in the workplace should be a top priority for all businesses. Whether you need to prevent crime, protect customers, patients, students, or staff, or you simply want to have more control over who enters your company facilities, access control systems are instrumental in delivering an effective way to monitor the comings and goings of people.
  
Want to know more? Let's dive into some of the top reasons why you really should be using access control systems within your business.

Safety and Security

The biggest and, of course, most obvious benefit is the security and safety aspect. Access control systems keep your staff, building, and assets safe from threats that unwanted intruders can pose.

By limiting access and controlling who enters and where, you can enhance safety and security. Be it keeping children safe in schools or universities by restricting access to entry points, locking external gates to playground and sports areas when school is in session or after hours, or you need to limit how patients move around your healthcare facility and implement staff-only areas, access control systems allow you to do this with ease.

You’re The Boss

It's not a universal system that you implement, and everyone uses it in the same way with the same standard features and restrictions.

You get to determine who is allowed when and where. You get to block access or grant it, and you get to do so whenever you need to.

Sacked an employee for theft or gross misconduct? Block their access to the system and prevent them from entering the premises again.

Have new contractors coming in that you've never worked with before? Restrict access ahead of time to keep everyone safe.

Improved Visibility

In an emergency, would you know who is on site and where they are? With real-time monitoring thanks to your access control system, you can pinpoint people and get them to safety faster.

You can track movements, see who was granted access, their last movement, when, and where, and find them to deliver help in emergency situations. Be it directing them out in the event of a fire safely, or you want them to shelter in the place for any reason, you can locate them easily thanks to knowing where they were last granted access.

Staff Timekeeping

The data you can gain from your systems means you can ensure timekeeping is controlled more carefully and people are at work when they need to be. You can track arrivals to the building, when they clock into their workspace, when they leave, and when they greet clients for meetings, etc. Not only does it help to spot those who are consistently late or leave early, but it also ensures wages are correct and limits employee wage theft, or helps to identify it.

Peace of Mind

You've worked hard to build your business, and you want to know it's safe and operating as it should. Your access control system gives you this peace of mind simply by knowing who is in the building and when. You can limit criminals, track their activity if they do gain entry, and it helps you reduce or identify misconduct, theft, or vandalism, for example.
 

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