The reason you installed motion sensors, alarms, on-site access controls, video surveillance and 24/7 surveillance was to protect your premises, resources and people. By sharing alarm codes, or making them too easy to decipher, you are defeating at least part of the purpose of your commercial security systems. Implement a policy that regulates the use of alarm codes and ensure that all your employees are trained not only to properly arm and disarm the security system with their code, but also to the importance of not writing codes where they can be easily found or sharing them with other employees. Also, don`t forget to create unique codes for “guest users,” z.B. for contractors, suppliers or other visitors who may be able to close the alarm. Connect them to the same database as your employee`s other alarm codes. The sad fact is that it is a scenario that happens every day. The theft costs retailers billions of dollars each year. In 2014, the National Retail Federation (NRF) found that retail businesses lost about $44 billion as a result of theft. In addition, more than 40% of retail thefts are due to thefts from employees and sellers. Don`t you think this could happen to you? According to surveys by the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners, 75% of workers have stolen from their employer at least once, and 73% have done so more often. In addition, approximately 33% of business bankruptcies are due to employee theft. Where many restaurants, retailers and other small businesses go wrong, sharing alert codes among employees is.
Some even create a “general code” that they distribute to everyone who opens or closes. The problem is that it significantly hampers the effectiveness of your commercial security systems. Of course, your alarm system will always help keep anyone out of the code, but if you`re a victim of employee theft, you won`t be any better than if you didn`t have a commercial alarm system. Every employee needs a unique code so you know exactly who`s accessing your premises and when. When employees share a code, you know that someone set off or turned off the alarm at 11 p.m. If each employee has a unique code, your opening/closing reports will communicate much more to you by getting a data set on the people who have disabled the alarm, information that you can use as a starting point in case something goes wrong. Of course, it is not enough to assign a single code to each employee. You also need to have a data set of each employee`s code so that your report can “open/close” the means of sending to get the necessary information. When it comes to generating, tracking and modifying security passcodes for employees, it may be too easy to sacrifice long-term security on the altar of temporary comfort, but being lax with your company`s alarm codes is a bad habit, and something you should break immediately.
