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Martyn's Law: Join Our Revolutionary Pop-Up Live Webinar Series!
Discover a wealth of insights on Martyn’s Law compliance through our ground-breaking Pop-Up Live Webinar Series. Engage in real-time discussions and be part of an innovative learning experience. Register now!
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Martyn's Law Simplified. What Manufacturers Must Do Now for Security
Learn about Martyn’s Law and how manufacturers can prepare for potential security changes. Understand the importance of assessing and mitigating risks to ensure public safety at venues and events.
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Martyn’s Law: An Introduction for Manufacturers
This introductory blog aims to shed light on the background, and relevance of Martyn’s Law to manufacturers, as well as highlighting some of the core provisions of the new legislation.
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Martyn's Law Compliance Assessment
Our Compliance Assessment helps manufacturers meet the requirements of Martyn’s Law simply and efficiently.
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Unveiling the True Value of Manufacturing Security: How a Holistic Approach Saves More Than Just Money
Discover how a holistic approach to manufacturing security can protect your operations, mitigate risks, and safeguard sensitive information in the digital age.
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10 Steps to Strengthen Your Security with Easy-to-Use and Budget-Friendly Measures
Discover 10 practical steps to enhance your manufacturing security without breaking the bank. Protect your valuable assets, production processes, and sensitive data with these easy-to-use and budget-friendly measures.
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Transforming Manufacturing Security: A Glimpse into the Future
Discover the latest insights and trends in manufacturing security. Explore the transformative impact of technology on the industry and gain valuable knowledge for safeguarding your facilities and assets.
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Reflecting on Success: A Resounding Webinar on Drones in Manufacturing Security
Reflecting on the success of our recent webinar on drones in manufacturing security, where we explored the game-changing potential of drones in securing manufacturing facilities and showcased real-life case studies.
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Manufacturing Security: 5 Tips for Recovering from a Security Incident
Learn how to recover from a security incident with these five tips for manufacturers. Our security management company prioritises providing a secure environment for your business.
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Moving In: Essential Security Measures for your New Premises
Moving into a new premises is an exciting time filled with new possibilities. However, it’s important not to overlook the critical aspect of ensuring the security of your new space.
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5 Tips for Keeping your New Premises Secure during the Moving Process
Moving to a new business premises can be a time-consuming and stressful process, but it’s essential to ensure that security is at the forefront of your mind during the move.
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Webinar: How to Securely Move your Manufacturing Business
We are excited to announce the launch of our upcoming webinar, ” How to Securely Move your Manufacturing Business”. If you are a manufacturing company preparing to move into a new facility, this webinar is for you.
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Essential Tips for Securing Your New Premises from Day One
Moving your factory to a new location? Learn essential tips and best practices for maximizing manufacturing security from day one.
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Manufacturing Security: 5 Unbeatable Strategies to Secure Your Building and Protect Against Intruders
Protect your manufacturing business with these 5 unbeatable strategies for physical and procedural security measures, and monitoring systems to secure your building against intruders.
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Manufacturing Security: Unlock the Power of These 5 Advanced Technologies!
In this blog post, we’ll explore five advanced security technologies that can help manufacturers protect their operations, their staff and their customers.
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Manufacturing Security 101: Essential Security Services for Protecting your Property
In this blog, we will discuss the benefits of security services for manufacturing facilities and the types of services available.
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Securing your Manufacturing Business over the Christmas Period
As a manufacturing business, it’s important to ensure the safety and security of your premises and operations during the Christmas period.
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How to Protect your Manufacturing Assets with an Intruder Alarm
With the right security solutions in place, manufacturers can protect essential assets such as machinery, computer networks and supply chain data. Read on to learn more about how you can protect your manufacturing assets with an intruder alarm.
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Brownouts: How Will it Affect the Security of your Business?
You may feel especially vulnerable when a power outage occurs. A brownout can cause all sorts of problems. Your security system may not operate properly if it shuts off as a result of a brownout, for a variety of reasons.
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Monitored vs Unmonitored Intruder Alarms
Intruder alarms are a common security measure that can provide protection against intrusion, such as unauthorised entry, into a building. In this blog, we highlight the differences to monitored and unmonitored intruder alarms.
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Good Vs Bad Access Control
In the modern world, we encounter access control systems of different types in all walks of life. In this blog, we go through some of the good and bad things about access control systems.
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19 Reasons to Automate your Access Control
Labour are expensive, and standards can be inconsistent. Moreover, metal keys are easy to copy, locks problematic to re-key when lost and there is no audit trail of who, where and when the access point was used. Here are 19 reasons to automate your access control.
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Access Control: What You Need to Know
Access Control is a core security management function that controls who goes where and when. In this blog we discuss physical access control, along with where it overlaps with logical access control.
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CCTV: Passive Vs Active Surveillance
Active and Passive Surveillance systems are two different ways you can use a CCTV systems in your businesses. In this blog, I have discussed some of the positives and negatives of the systems.
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What CCTV can(not) be used for?
CCTV is an integral part of any security program, however, it will not solve all crime. In this blog, we have put together some of the things that CCTV can do, along with some of the things it cannot do.
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6 Layers of Security you Should be Using
We often talk of the benefits of a layered security approach, or security in depth. But what does that mean? What are layers of security? In this blog, we reveal some of the layers of security you should be using right now.
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Securing your Business over the Christmas Period
With business’ winding down for the Christmas period, premises can become prime targets for cyber attacks, criminal activity, and property damage. We’ve got a few top tips to help you protect your business and prevent any unwanted disasters occurring before you return in the New Year.
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Old Buildings Vs New Buildings
If your business is based in a building, or you are looking to move into a building, then you are probably concerned with its security. In this blog, we explore the differences between these two types of buildings from a security perspective.
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4 Tips to Reduce the Vulnerability of a Security Fence
In this blog, we expose the most likely ways a perimeter fence is breached along with tips to protect against them.
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10 Tips for the Perfect Perimeter
Your perimeter is often your first line of defence against criminal activity. Whichever form it takes, it is imperative to get it right, because the effectiveness of your perimeter has a direct impact on the security of your whole business.
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3 Crime Prevention Strategies
Those companies that are successful in looking beyond just direct crime prevention, can save enormous sums of money in security budgets. They are happier and more productive business enterprises, often with more stable workforces…
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3 Stages of Effective Security Management
Ensuring that your business is protected correctly is not something that should be taken lightly. After all, an effective security plan could mean the difference between investing in further growth or losing money through criminal activity.
But how to start?
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5 Security Strategies to Support your COVID Recovery
As we all look to life beyond the pandemic, we reveal 5 security strategies to support your recovery.
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4 Lessons Learnt from COVID
Here’s 4 lessons we learnt from the COVID 19 pandemic.
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New Normal: 5 Key Benefits of Remote Working
In this blog, we research 5 key benefits of remote working that will add value to your business.
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Mental Health: 9 Practical Tips for Employers
Employers have a duty of care to reasonably support their employee’s health, safety, and wellbeing. This blog highlights exactly what your responsibilities are, along with some practical tips on how you can achieve this and support your employees better.
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4 Security Tips for the New Normal
Working remotely has become the new normal. We have put together these tips to help business be more secure, no matter where their staff work.
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Coronavirus: Getting Back to Work
The count down is on until we are allowed back to work. Here is some advice to help get you back to work safely.
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Coronavirus: Security Tips to Secure your Property
Uncertain times can lead to opportunities for criminals. Here are some tips to help secure your property during this time.
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4 Instances When You Should Consider Security
As a business owner, you have a lot of balls to juggle. We have put together a list of 4 instances when you should focus on security.
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Supporting Business Growth
Equilibrium Risk ran their third Understanding your Security Risk workshop of the year- I found the workshop to be eye-opening and very useful.
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8 Things to Consider BEFORE Investing in Security
Cost is always a consideration before an investment.
Here are 8 things to consider before investing in security.
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Guidance on the Use of Security Cameras
Simply putting up a camera in the hope of stopping criminal activity is not going to work. A more detail approach needs to be made if the system is going to achieve what you want it to.
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Understand your Security Risk
Your business is at risk from cyber attacks, criminal activity and even accidents at work. But with budgets being tight, where do you invest your hard earned money?
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The CCTV Camera is Dead....
Cameras are commonplace in the UK these days, we see them everywhere. But the way cameras are used is evolving. They are no longer on standalone ‘closed circuit’ systems, but rather connected to the internet or large networks. They have changed, and so too must the name….
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Bonfire Night
Whether you are organising or just attending a bonfire and firework display with the customary pie and peas, jacket spuds, treacle toffee, parkin etc., it is timely to give a gentle reminder of a few precautions to ensure that the evening is incident free.
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Securing your Garden
Last week saw the first ever ‘Secured by Design’ (SBD) garden displaying at the renown RHS Hampton Court Palace Flower Show, highlighting the importance gardening and landscaping has in reducing burglary. Read about it here.
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Intruder Alarms
Protecting your business is important to any business owner but getting it right can be tricky. In this blog, we cover what an intruder alarm is, the types and grades of intruder alarms, integration with CCTV and lastly give some tips on using an intruder alarm effectively.
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Using CCTV to Protect your Business
Currently, there is a proliferation of CCTV, everyone is installing it. Using it to protect their businesses, their staff, and their cars absolutely anything. But does it make a difference? Are their businesses, staff, and cars more secure? We look into it in detail.
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High Value Items
What would happen if your business was targeted by criminals. Would they be able to effect your business? If they were able to steal or restrict access to what your business needs most to run, would your business be able to deal with such an impact? Would your business survive?
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Making a Robbery More Difficult
We have put together a few tips to help make a robbery more difficult.
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What is Key Holding?
For some businesses, Key Holding is a vital part of their business security plan. Over the years it has developed, but what is it? and should you use it in your business?
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5 Questions to Ask Before Hiring a Security Company
Choosing a suitable security company for your business premises is a challenging task. Ensuring the safety and security of your biggest assets is something that should not be taken lightly. After all, a quality security plan will prevent losses and create a safe and secure environment in which to operate.
But where to start?
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How to Protect your Home whilst on Holiday
Whether you’re taking a short break in the city or a two-week vacation in the Maldives, you’ll want to ensure your home is safe and sound for your return.
Read on to learn how you can burgle-proof your home.
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Case Study: Safeguarding Businesses with Professional Key Holding
Keyholding is the act of keeping a spare key to a residential or commercial premises.
If you would like more information about how Equilibrium Risk’s professional keyholding and alarm response services can protect your business, please get in touch today.
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Case Study: Protecting Commercial Properties Against Burglaries
Law enforcement agencies have recently expressed a concern about the increase in repeat burglaries on commercial properties. Statistics have shown that over three quarters of all burglaries committed, are second, third and sometimes fourth attacks on the same business, over the course of a year.
But what can a business do about it?
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All you Need to Know About Protecting your Home with CCTV
Did you know an individual in the UK has the right to protect their domestic property using CCTV?
If you need help making sense of a cost-effective and reliable security system for your home, get in touch today.
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Case Study: Securing Sites with CCTV and Alarm Systems
Setting up a business is a daunting prospect. One of the most important aspects is to ensure the safety and security of your new business, building, employees and assets.
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Rotherham Abuse Trial- Protecting the Media
The media have a very important job to do: to report the news. What’s in the news shapes what we think about our Country and what we consider important. But what happens when the Media can’t report the news, or are hindered in doing so?
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Behind the Scenes of the Keighley Abuse Case
Early on Friday morning (5th Feb), Equilibrium Risk received a phone call to provide specialist protection to a camera crew filming the outcome of the case at Bradford Crown Court. The group had already been found guilty at an earlier hearing, this hearing was purely for the sentencing and the film crew were worried it could turn nasty.
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Keeping Lindley's Businesses Safe
We all know or have heard of Heritage Exchange, it is a well known landmark. It is very busy and popular place. This leaves for a complex security environment.
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Holiday Security
Going on holiday?
Have you ever come home from a wonderful holiday to discover that you’ve been broken into? A burglary is just as bad at any time, but there’s something about the one that happened while you were away. Perhaps you asked yourself “Why didn’t the neighbours hear what was going on?” “Why didn’t I run the table
