How to Keep Your Commercial Safe Security at a High Level

Many companies go years and years without doing anything different as far as the security of their commercial safes goes. This can definitely compromise the security of the commercial safes at your business. Having this happen can result in the theft of cash, intellectual property or other valuables that are often stored in commercial safes. This is something that no business can afford to happen. In this article, I will tell you some steps that you can take to help keep your commercial safe security at a higher level.

The Different Types of Commercial Safe Locks

Before you can learn how to help keep your safe security at a high level, perhaps it’s best to talk a little about the different types of commercial safe locks that are available in the market place.

• Keyed Safes

These are kind of the dinosaurs of commercial safes. They have been protecting businesses for centuries now. There is one big problem with them though. These types of locks very seldom offer the security more valuable items such as cash and important documents need. Does that mean you need to take your old keyed safes to the junkyard? Absolutely not, just use them to store less valuable items in.

• Combination safes

Although these have been around for a while they still offer very good safe security. If buying a new one it’s better to go with a safe with an electronic locking mechanism but these will still work if your company is on a strict budget and you desperately need a new safe.

• Drop Boxes

If you have a business that runs multiple cash registers, then these types of safes can be invaluable to safeguarding the cash that transfers through your business each day. Drop boxes (also known as depository safes) are often placed right next to or under cash drawers. That makes it ultra-convenient to place cash in them instead of having overflowing cash drawers that will catch the eyes of would-be thieves.

• Electronic Safe Locks

  Here is the type of safes I recommend that your business use instead of keyed lock safes. That’s because they offer a much higher level of security than those types of safes do. Electronic safe locks have no exposed areas like keyholes that leave them susceptible to being picked. They also offer many other advantages too, such as their combinations are easily reprogrammable.

• Biometric Safe Locks

Do you want to take your safe lock protection to the highest level possible? Then you should consider buying a safe or two that have advanced biometric locking devices on them. What makes these types of safes so secure to use? They open using such things as retina scans and fingerprints. Since no two people have the sane retina or fingerprint pattern, it makes it much easier to keep these types of safe locks from being compromised.

Steps To Take To Keep Your Commercial Safe Security at a High Level

Here are some tips that will help your commercial safe security at the highest possible level.

Have Your Commercial Safes Professionally Installed

Sure your big strong warehouse guys can go out and get a new commercial safe for you but it may be better to have it professionally installed. A professional safe installer such as a locksmith will have a team that knows how to safely handle your new safe while moving it and no exactly what to look for in order to place it in your business securely.

Here are some of the things that a professional safe installer will take into consideration when placing a new safe for you at your business:

• They will look to place it in a secure area with little employee traffic flow.
• A professional safe installer will want the new safe placed in a well-lighted area.
• Consider having the safe installer also add an alarm system to your safe or buy one with an alarm built-in already.

Limit Employee Safe Access

What do I mean by this? Don’t hand out keys to safes or safe combinations to employees like they are candy. The fewer people that have a safe key, safe code or a safe combination the less chance the security of any of your commercial safes will be compromised.

Periodically Change Your Safe Lock Keys, Combinations and Codes

This is an absolute must for any company that has one or more safes. You should make it a habit to have your lock keys, combinations or codes changed about every six months. This alone will keep your all-important safe security at a higher level.

Change the Safe Lock Key, Combination or Code When an Important Employee Leaves Your Business

Here is another critical safe security issue that absolutely must be addressed when the time comes. When an employee leaves your company that had a combination, code or key to one or more of your commercial safes, you must get those locks reprogrammed, rekeyed or new combinations placed in them. This is especially important if that key employee left on bad terms with your company.

Switch To Biometrically Opened Safe Locks

It was mentioned earlier that biometric locking safes offered the highest level of safe security. So why not make sure when it comes time to buy a new commercial safe they have this type of locking mechanism.