How to keep your business safe from harm

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Although you might not realise it, your business is in constant danger from marauding forces. These forces are a bit like pirates on the high seas of old, with robbing and vandalising a property the modern equivalent of walking the plank.

But although there are no shark-infested waters awaiting you after a spate of vandalism on your premises, there are dire consequences for your wallet. All those doubloons you’ve saved up will be spent on insurance premiums and repairs, until all that’s flying from your wallet are butterflies.

And these marauders won’t use scabbards and peg legs to attack your business. The most pernicious criminals can cause all sorts of havoc, using spray paint, crowbars and gasoline to turn your business from a thriving enterprise into a smouldering wreck.

If you think that sounds unlikely, think again. Thousands of UK businesses are targeted by vandals and thieves every year – and they can ruin the finances of even the most successful enterprises.

With dangers of a biblical proportion potentially being inflicted upon your company, you’ll have to come up with a few strategies to protect it. We’ve come up with a few, so take a look.

Take care of the spray

Graffiti is simple to inflict on a building, but a nightmare to remove. Getting rid of this noxious paint costs businesses thousands of pounds, and leaving it to fester simply isn’t an option. Just imagine an ornate jewellery shop drenched in sprayed tags and violent patterns. You wouldn’t enter it in a million years.

To avoid a spray painted building as best as possible, install a few security cameras outside your building, making them big enough to warn off potential vandals but small enough to avoid intimidating customers.

But if you’re still hit with a swathe of spray paint, call in a professional graffiti removal team that can wipe it off without ruining your paint job.

Fight the flame

A business that suffers at the hands of a fire is pretty much out of the game, at least as far as your profits are concerned. At least 70 per cent of businesses don’t bounce back after their business has been set alight, even if their insurance covers the majority of the damage.

While not necessarily easy, preventing a fire requires nothing more than common sense. Your staff should be fully briefed on how they can stay fire-safe (hire a fire safety officer to oversee this process) and invest in safety products like extinguishers, sprinklers and alarms to make sure your building is secure if a fire does break out.

Ultimately, investing in the optimal number of safety precautions can save you a shedload of cash in the long run – and could rescue your entire business from danger.

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