When the decision has been made to go solo and open your own commercial business, there are so many things to consider. Facilities, staff, equipment, inventory, these are all the things that will occupy you. One essential that must not be neglected is to check the security of your new facility; you most certainly don’t want to a have an incident before you open the doors for business. You are well advised to contact a commercial locksmith in Niles to visit and evaluate all the locks and security features you have and to make recommendations if warranted.
A lock may appear secure to the untrained eye, on the surface it is very difficult to tell if the lock is really secure or not. When you have the commercial locksmith go through all the locks and evaluate them for their integrity, you will get a report back making recommendations on what you should do to improve and enhance the building security. The commercial locksmith in Niles may only suggest the simple solutions, such as adding a dead bolt to the outside doors; he may also have found locks that need replacing.
Simple locks are not much of a deterrent to a determined thief. If a thief has a little time on his side, he can be in through doors with simple locks very quickly. A state-of-the-art locking system is one of the best deterrent’s money can buy. When the potential thief takes one look at what he is faced with, he will more often than not move on to a lock which poses much less of a problem.
What the commercial locksmith will do:
When the commercial locksmith in Niles is asked to review your business property, he will analyze the security as is and make a recommendation for enhancement. The commercial locksmith services include:
* Re-key every lock in the premises
* Repair or replace faulty locks
* Extract broken keys, prepare duplicate keys and make master keys
* Provide and install stand alone card readers
* Provide high security key control systems either on-site or off-site
* Install and maintain push bar paddles on emergency exits
* Replace desk and file cabinet locks
* Install a magnetic opener for buzzer type entry systems
Many companies today are installing key pad locks and giving employees the codes that they need to get to their work places. There is rarely anyone who needs to enter every door in a building. Not only does key pad entry control where employees go, it is easy to change the codes if an employee leaves. Any locks that the ex-employee had access to can quickly and easily be changed to deny him future entry, ex-employees account for a high percentage of commercial crime.