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How To Ensure Your Business Is Secure – As Ontario Announces A State of Emergency

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Amid the outbreak of Covid-19 (CoronaVirus) – businesses are having to make tough decisions about how, and at what capacity, they will be able to continue operations. 

As of today (March 17, 2020), the government has officially declared a state of emergency for the province of Ontario. This systematic shutdown presents an unprecedented upheaval for business, as residents have been instructed to limit their activity and remain home. 

The impact of Covid-19 is forcing businesses to plan strategically about how best to bridge the gap until normal operations can be restored. The main challenge businesses face is maintaining operations while taking the necessary precautions to not contribute to the spread. 

Restructuring Business For Remote Operations – Keeping Your Staff & Facility Safe

As the need for sequestering ourselves from contact becomes more crucial to reducing the spread of the CoronaVirus, workplaces have to adjust operations to accommodate. Across Ontario, any employees who are able to work remotely, are being asked to do so. 

Businesses now have to shift how daily operations will work as the focus turns to facility security. Specifically, enacting more stringent access rules to insulate a business from exposure. 

3 Ways Access Control Technology Can Keep Your Business Running & Protected From CoronaVirus

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As many businesses limit, lay-off, or ask staff to telecommute, it becomes an organizational challenge to implement security plans – especially given the fluidity of the virus. It’s critically important that business continues, but there are necessary adjustments required to make that possible. 

Preventing the CoronaVirus from spreading through a company can be accomplished with the capability of Access Control Technology:

Remote Management | Restricting & Organizing Access | Tracking Activity

Access control security technology is leading the protection of businesses against the CoronaVirus. 

  • Remote Management – With access control systems, your management team can secure and control the facility on the fly as soon as it’s required. It is an absolute necessity to be able to remotely view your property, receive alerts, and make changes to department rules at the first indication of a situation.
  • Restricting & Organizing Access – Companies are restructuring their workforce in an attempt to protect their employees and maintain an uncontaminated facility. Access control technology allows you to restructure departments to ensure that the most susceptible areas of a facility are restricted for safety. Access rules and organizational management can be updated – with instant effect – at any time. 
  • Tracking Activity – Managing employee activity is more important than ever with the potential exposure to Covid-19. Business protection must include the ability to track any occurrence of the virus to determine where that person went and with whom they interacted. Access control system activity reports show an audit of who had access to infected staff or areas to immediately track and contain further spread.

Tips To Protect Your Business:

  • Manage your staff access by restricting non-essential areas and assets
  • Review activity to manage aspects of the facility potentially at risk
  • Limit unnecessary activity by remotely managing as much of the facility operations as possible
  • Use full perimeter protection – including video verification, automated intercoms, remote door locks, and create strategic man-traps to validate and audit all access
  • Review all access levels and revoke anything that is unnecessary to operations at this time

Having a security plan that addresses comprehensive protection against the spread of Covid-19 will drastically restrict the impact on your business. 

As security and safety professionals, we are constantly assisting companies with detailed risk assessments to design protection plans for their staff and facilities. The CoronaVirus – is a non-typical security threat – but it can still be addressed by identifying risk and deploying the appropriate technology. 

You can request guidance from us to help you manage the security of your business with an integrated security solution. Your protection is our concern and we are always here to provide security education.

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