Keeping Your Commercial Property Safe This Holiday Season

12/6/2017 (Permalink)

December is the time of year for holiday cheer, friends, family, and wonderful social gatherings. Unfortunately, this season also marks a time for potential safety issues in commercial buildings of all kinds. Criminal activity often spikes during the holiday months and this can mean anything from property damage to fraudulent acts. While it is important to keep your office or retail space safe the entire year, taking extra precautions this season will help to ease your mind, keep your employees safe, and ensure that you have a happy, stress-free holiday.

There is nothing quite like feeling of peace of mind when you lock up your commercial space every night. Business owners have enough to worry about on a daily basis. As such, the safety and security of their property should be one thing you can check off of your list. Keep the following tips in mind in order ensure that your commercial property is safe this holiday season:

• Invest in a great alarm system
• Install security cameras
• Integrate your security system with your phone or tablet to keep an eye on the building at all times
• Purchase high-security locks
• Make sure that all of your employees are well-versed on the protocols associated with closing down the store each night
• Take regular inventory of your property
• Make sure the property is well lit
• Keep a minimum amount of cash in your commercial space
• Post signage to inform the public of the security measures that you are taking

As a business owner, your commercial property is almost as important as your residential property. Therefore, it is important to be on high-alert this holiday season to ensure that you are keeping your business and your staff as safe as possible. Once you have a safety plan ironed out, it’s time to consider your storefront’s exterior and interior look. Your commercial property’s appearance speaks volumes to your clients. So, when the need arises for professional cleaning or emergency restoration services, SERVPRO of North Miami has the training and expertise to help make it “Like it never even happened.”