Site security moves with the times

Despite the severity of the downturn in the building and construction sector, Tag Guard are reporting year-on-year sales growth as more and more companies realise that there are viable and less costly alternatives to static guards or mobile patrols.

Site security has always been one of the most troublesome issues facing building and construction companies, never more so in a downturn when minimal margins leave little room for services usually perceived as a “necessary evil”.  Yet the same downturn means that sites have become even more vulnerable to theft with raw materials left lying around that can represent easy – and lucrative – pickings for criminal gangs or just opportunist thieves.

Richard Lang, Managing Director of Tag Guard Ltd, comments, “In some respects we have benefited from this recession with increased business from the building and construction sector.

“Site owners and operators have come to realise that traditional measures that rely on static guards or mobile patrols are expensive and frequently ineffective; we are now increasingly winning the argument that the systems we offer are less costly, yet genuinely more effective in deterring or identifying criminal activity.

“Tag Guard systems operate 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, are remotely monitored for security activity and can be kept under constant surveillance – unlike a manned guarding set up, they do not need to take tea breaks, do not fall asleep, spend hours on the internet or have unscheduled holidays or sick days.

“Clients therefore now accept that a combination of 24-hour monitored Tag Guard wireless CCTV and alarm equipment, coupled with closely managed local mobile response, is a highly cost-effective solution.