Tips for Using Your Surveillance System for Incident Management

Your security system can do so much more than just keep out unwanted intruders. It is also the perfect avenue for maintaining safe practices and managing incidents. Let’s look at how integrating access control, utility meters, fire detection, and surveillance cameras can help you maintain normal daily operations and cope with emergencies and disasters.

Incident Management for Routine Operations

On a normal day-to-day basis, you need to implement safety protocols to ensure that employees, customers, and the facility itself remain safe. How does your security system play a role?

• Access control keeps people out of restricted areas. That includes helping to ensure no one enters the facility who doesn’t belong there.
• Video surveillance is coupled with technology that automatically detects issues. From a machine that shuts down at an unscheduled time to a person engaging in unsafe behaviors, you can be immediately alerted to situations that might otherwise quickly escalate into major issues.
• Fire detection systems provide an alert at the first hint of a fire, whether it be the detection of smoke or a visual confirmation of flames by the CCTVs.

Incident Management During Emergencies

The last thing you want to experience is an emergency that puts the facility or employees in danger. However, such occurrences are a part of industry, and that means being prepared to assess situations immediately and to respond accordingly. Surveillance systems allow you to keep an eye on what is going on so that you can immediately tell if an emergency is real or a false alarm. Then you can make a snap decision that could potentially save money or even lives.

Incident Management During Disasters

Whether it is the hurricanes that have wreaked havoc on the United States, earthquakes that have caused serious damage and death in Mexico, or any other disaster you’ve seen on the news lately, it is becoming clear that disaster preparedness and the response is vital in both the private and public sectors. Utilities are one of the first things that are usually affected by disasters, and a surveillance system can help to determine what has failed and why allowing services to get back up in optimal time.

Preparing for the Future with Surveillance Secure

Regardless of whether you need to prepare for emergencies or disasters or even if you just want to ensure safer day-to-day operations, Surveillance Secure can help you to develop the security system to meet your organization’s goals. Call today to learn more about the security technologies that can help maintain the operations of your company.