Securing Distribution, Logistics and Warehouse Facilities with the Proven Effectiveness of Secured Entry Solutions

By better controlling who comes and goes from your facilities, you can better control what leaves your facilities. Physical security is vitally important to help prevent theft resulting from unauthorized access to your facilities, and to screen visitors and employees as they are exiting your facility. But with all the different entry solutions, products, sensors, and AI video analytics available, selecting the right combination of devices and technologies can be an arduous task.

Boon Edam Security Entrances provide the strongest-possible physical security measures to help mitigate loss revenues and profits resulting from shrinkage caused by insider threats, external operators, and employee collusion. The following outlines potential entry/exit workflows for a layered physical security entrance strategy: 

1. Perimeter/Parking Lot: Two-way Full Height Turnstiles equipped with access control and tailgating and piggybacking prevention, intercom, video monitoring, and an adjacent ADA pedestrian gate.
2. Initial Entry, Divestment and Screening: As employees enter, they divest their personal belongings into lockers, and proceed through a metal detector attached to one-way in-bound Full Height Turnstiles equipped with access control and tailgating and piggybacking prevention, ADA entry portal, and weapons detection screening.
3. Tracking Breaks and Lunches: When employees take a break or lunch, they enter through a waist-high, tripod turnstile. This allows management to collect data on who is on and off the floor, and for how long.
4. End-of-Shift Theft Deterrence: To facilitate randomized screening, a patented Boon Edam exit solution features dual waist-high turnstiles. When exiting a facility, employees approach an array of two waist-high turnstiles: one turnstile leads to an exit, and the other to a search/pat down area with a guard. Both a deterrent and a preventive solution, this exit solution can help put an end to shrinkage due to employee theft.
5. Exiting Facilities: One-way out-bound Full Height Turnstiles are in place for those leaving the randomized screening process area to access lockers and exit the facility.

This is one workflow in a series of preventive entry/exit solutions that will help reduce shrinkage, allowing focus on other potential penetration points such as loading docks or waste disposal areas. Such initiatives, policies, procedures, and infrastructure enhancements can combine to provide your staff with the best possible loss prevention compliance outcomes.

Additionally, secured entry solutions automate many of the manual processes currently associated with loss prevention. By reducing, or even eliminating, much of the physical labor required to sustain manual loss prevention processes, Boon Edam Secured Entry Solutions deliver tangible results and cost savings. In most cases, a Boon Edam tailgating and piggybacking prevention design will net ROI in less than eight months from deployment in facilities that operate 24/7/365. That’s substantial. Let us show you how. - Contact us today!

While most businesses do not experience the shooting tragedies of recent years, it has become legally and morally necessary to attempt to prevent these and other violent acts. All though it may not always be feasible to stop the attacks, it is possible to buy time and greatly reduce liability.  

Deploying Boon Edam Security Entrances at entry and exit points at the perimeter of a facility and at critical internal access points provides employees time, which is the single most necessary physical security measure needed to mitigate against this danger.

Unfortunately, active shooter situations have become far too common. As a result, police departments have made this an extremely high priority, and according to a report published by the FBI in 2014, response times from 2000 to 2012 averaged 3 minutes around the country. The question is not whether the response is fast enough, but if there are common sense ways that technology can assist in buying time.

Industry best practices have resulted in the blending of Loss Prevention and Employee Safety into the entry/exit workflow and design process. In doing so, Boon Edam solutions deliver the following benefits:

• Provides access and security for the retail/inventory environment
• Excellent high-capacity throughput
• Sophisticated visitor channel flow
• Easy and comfortable disabled access
• Safe and comfortable for a pleasant user experience
• Creates a lasting first impressions that fit with your brand
• Provides safety after-hours with night-locking doors and protection packages
• Opportunity to ‘Level Up’ where it counts the most to you – in security, loss prevention, or aesthetics.
• Rapid technical troubleshooting for reduced downtime
• Built to last
• Collaboration with an entry expert from project conception to installation and beyond into service and maintenance

Let’s face it, Loss Prevention is a very challenging job! It is a balance of time, resources, and skillset whereas it takes all three to be good at the “Prevention” game. What technology can be deployed to give any Loss Prevention team a force multiplier? Deploying Boon Edam Security Entrances and secured workflow designs at entry and exit points at the perimeter of a facility and at critical internal high value access points automates who comes and goes and can allow for labor reallocation to an effective screening process for any Loss Prevention program.