How To Leverage Your Security System To Reinforce Health & Safety Protocols and Business Policies

With the ever-present and growing threat of the COVID-19 virus, businesses around the world are implementing more robust health and safety policies to protect employees, customers, and site visitors. It is also possible to increase the strength of those measures and protocols by using your security systems to reduce the risk associated with COVID-19.

Visitor Management Systems

Promoting the use of initial screening via your visitor management system is an easy to create a base level defense system. You can also cordon off wider accessible areas to create and maintain a narrow access way throughout the initial screening process.

If you have a visitor management kiosk, here are some example questions you can ask as part of the initial screening prior to granting an individual access to the facility:

· Do you currently have a fever, cough and/or difficulty breathing?

· Have you recently returned from China, Italy, Japan, South Korea or other areas with confirmed cases of the coronavirus?

· Have you had close contact with someone who has a confirmed or suspected case of coronavirus?

Ensuring that these or other permissible questions are asked will increase the level of security to those within your organization, in addition to your access control system.

Access Control Systems

As you prepare to make numerous decisions regarding your day to day operations, it is imperative to ensure your access control system and policies is strong enough to mitigate threats such as COVID-19.

If schools or community facilities have closed or cancelled activities they should:

-Review their alarm schedules

-Make any necessary changes to reflect different hours of operation

-Have equipment tested by qualified technicians to ensure full functionality

-Test/change batteries and other power supplies

-Ensure emergency call contacts and phone numbers are up to date

-Add, change or delete fob or access cards as required to mitigate potential threats

Take this time to ensure that those who have access to any facility/area actually require it. If they don’t, consider removing it or suspending it temporarily until the risk has been eliminated or reduced to an acceptable level. Taking the time to review all accesses and settings can ensure that they reflect the correct degree of security required for any protected areas.

Remote Services & Support

The directives to modify when and where we work is changing by the hour. More and more places of business are required to close, reduce hours/staff or work from home. As such, there is an increased need to leverage any remote services and support, especially for security.

It is paramount to ensure your security program is working properly when a facility is un-staffed. A number of technology manufacturers and security providers have remote services in place to assist with online learning and support to obtain technical training and/or certifications. Take advantage of these opportunities where possible.

COVID-19 Action Plan

To our valued customer,

We wanted to take this opportunity to reach out and advise you that both our Chatham and London locations are still operational and available to assist you in every way we can.
With respect to the increasing risks associated with the COVID-19 Coronavirus, Wiring Solutions would like to inform you of what we’re doing to protect our employees and you, our customers.
In recent weeks and for the foreseeable future, we have engaged our staff in following more robust health and safety protocols. We are continuously taking steps to procure appropriate PPE (Protective Personal Equipment) including apparel and cleaners/sanitizers as recommended by public health officials. Although the day to day rules and guidelines surrounding COVID-19 are changing quickly we will continue to keep ourselves and our staff updated with the most current information.

Below is a summary of the workplace and community health and safety measures that Wiring Solutions is utilizing:

Increased communications with our work force to increase their awareness about COVID-19
Encouraging our staff to think ahead about the actions that they can take to stay healthy and prevent the spread of any illness.
Practice frequent hand hygiene, proper coughing/sneezing etiquette
Physical distancing
Formal reporting, investigation and investigation actions for personnel showing symptoms, returning from international locations, and who have been in contact with or exposed to the virus, or in close contact with someone has been confirmed to have the virus
Implementation of quarantine and isolation directives for our personnel who have travelled internationally, show the symptoms, or have been in contact or exposed, either directly or indirectly, with people who are suspected or confirmed as having COVID-19
Encourage those who are sick to stay home until they no longer have symptoms

Our objective is to continue to provide and maintain non-interrupted services to you, our client, throughout this crisis. We also want to re-emphasize that Wiring Solutions is following the lead of the Public Health Agency of Canada and we continue to closely monitor and assess the risk of exposure to coronavirus (COVID-19). We will maintain communication with you to advise on actions taken by us to meet our contractual obligations, and to inform you of any employee who self reports, or who is receiving medical support in relation to COVID-19 testing or diagnosis, which could impact or impede your business operations, your employees or the General Public visiting and attending at your site. In turn, we respectfully request that you update and advise us of any potential testing, self-isolation, or diagnosis of your employees or clientele, that could have an impact on our business, and/or our Wiring Solutions employees, family and friends.

Respectfully yours, Wiring Solutions

How To Leverage Your Security System To Reinforce Health & Safety Protocols and Business Policies

COVID-19 Action Plan

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