Businesses are often prime targets for criminals. They store valuable equipment and inventory, and premises are frequently closed and empty of people at night, providing criminals with the luxury of time to work undisturbed to break in and take what they want. Here’s how to check if your business is secure and where to use retractable gates and roller shutter doors to help stop a robbery or break-in succeeding.
Have you Installed Challenging Obstacles?
A wall of retractable gates or roller shutters is an effective form of business security. It is one of the best visual deterrents to criminals looking for a quick in-and-out robbery. What they see is a tough challenge and they may have to find another way in or another target.
If they do decide to try to break through the physical barriers, they’ll need the right tools, plenty of time, and a low risk of being discovered. If they are well prepared, they may arrive with tools to help them. But if the physical barriers have in-built strength, they may run out of time and be caught in the act.
To create continuous protection around the building, all windows and exit doors need to be secured with barriers. There should be no unsecured opening because this will be seen as a weak point that is easily exploited by criminals, no matter how inaccessible it seems.
Roller shutters and security gates are made to measure for all these openings. Use them right around the building to let potential intruders know that it is properly protected. This will let criminals know that they run the risk of discovery if they try to break in.
Are your Business Assets Protected?
Roller shutters and sliding security gates can be used inside the building as well as outside. Business security gates and automated or manual roller shutters are reliably strong barriers if you have assets to protect. They keep these items safe inside the storage area and block unauthorised access to the protected rooms.
Some examples of where they can be installed to guard assets such as stock or electronic equipment are:
- Pharmaceutical store rooms
- IT centres within a building
- Storerooms that house valuable merchandise
- Cupboards or rooms where keys and electronic controls are kept
- Food storage areas within a canteen
- Warehouses, where a section can be cordoned off using sliding gates or roller shutters
- Areas within a large store that need to be secured after hours to protect high value merchandise like perfumes, tobacco, e-cigarettes
Industrial roller shutter doors and business security gates are custom-made by Trellidor to fit all these areas. Made to measure products like these can be designed to fit any type of door, window, open spaces, and other openings. They are expertly installed for a tight, secure fit.
Can you Safeguard your Employees and Customers?
Thankfully, violent invasions in business premises are not common, but they do sometimes happen. Do you have a protocol for limiting the damage? Strategically placed roller shutters and sliding security gates can be an effective part of the plan to reduce the harm caused.
Use roller shutters and sliding security gates to:
- Keep assets, stock, and other valuables under lock and key so that criminals don’t have access to them.
- Seal off passages and other access points within the building so that the criminals can’t roam freely.
- Create a safe zone for employees and customers to shelter inside until help arrives.
These products are also an essential part of an emergency escape plan. Fixed burglar proofing on windows can’t be opened in a crisis to use as an alternative exit to doors. But roller shutters and sliding gates can. If they’re installed on windows, these barriers can be opened to allow people to escape to safety through the windows.
Why Choose Retractable Security Gates?
- Business security gates are custom-made to fit the opening for a secure fit.
- They can be manufactured for doors, windows, and most other openings.
- They’re made from high-quality material for durability and strength.
- They’re designed to provide excellent resistance to forced entry attempts.
- It’s a space-saving design as they slide out of the way into a compact stack.
- Models can be matched in strength to the crime risk profile of the location and budget available.
- Trellidor offers internationally certified models with unique strengthening features suited to high security risk locations.
- Sliding security gates for business are durable, robust, and easy to maintain.
- Manually operated retractable gates are not dependent on a power source to keep them on guard.
Trellidor is set up to customise these sliding gates for businesses. Customers can choose a hinge-up track where the bottom track lifts up and out of the way to avoid a tripping hazard. Or a hinge-away option where the entire stack swings out of the way.
To accommodate a protective cage around high value goods or to close off a small space within a larger one, angled units that lock in a corner can be created with no need for a pillar.
Why Choose Roller Shutter Doors?
- Made industrial grade aluminium which is light weight, strong, and corrosion resistant.
- Quick installation process causes minimal disruption to business operations.
- Can be fitted internally (safe rooms, storerooms, passages) or externally (shop fronts).
- Ensures excellent privacy by blocking views of the interior of a property when closed.
- Choice of manual or automated roller shutter doors with a range of openers.
- Can assist with internal temperature control and sound insulation.
- Helps to control light – partial or complete block-out.
- Shuts out poor weather such as high winds, rain, and hail.
- Helps to prevent vandalism, protecting windows, doors, and exteriors.
- They save on space because they roll up out of the way, into a compact shutter box.
Why Choose Sectional Roller Shutter Doors?
- Sectional roller shutter doors are more suitable for the large openings found in commercial buildings, such as dispatch doors.
- These doors slide upwards and inwards under the ceiling, out of the way until you need them for protection.
- Choose Coroview safety glass panelled sectional overheads or Corosteel solid panel doors.
- Sectional overhead roller shutter doors protect against weather, dust, noise, and criminals.
- The doors can be customised in numerous ways to suit the site specifications.
- They can be manufactured in large sizes to protect expansive spaces like motor showroom frontages.
If you’re still uncertain whether or not your business is secure enough, call in someone in the industry to do a security assessment of your premises. They can help design a business security solution that suits the unique situational requirements as well as the available budget. A package of Trellidor business security products could include security gates designed for businesses, industrial roller shutter doors, or sectional overhead shutters. Find out more
