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There are many businesses that often fall prey to criminal activity such as theft, and protecting their assets is often a difficult and ongoing task for managers and business owners alike. Retail stores, pharmacies and restaurants are particularly vulnerable, and must take stringent steps to keep their staff, customers and valuables, safe from harm.

So, what can your business do to protect its valuables from theft?

Investing in a UL tested and rated, high security safe may not keep everything in your store from being stolen, but it can certainly go a long way towards protecting some of your most valuable and important items. Let’s look at high security safes in a little more detail:

Safe ratings explained

A safe that has been rated by United Laboratories (UL), will give you the peace of mind of knowing that it offers the highest level of protection, and cannot be infiltrated by the average burglar. As the industry leader in safe security ratings, a UL rated safe is one you can rely on.

One other company specializing in safe security ratings are Intertek-ETL, who also conduct independent safe testing and are highly regarded within the industry. Purchasing a safe that hasn’t been tested and verified by either of these organizations, means that you can’t guarantee the safety of the items you wish to place inside it.

How safes are built

The way in which a safe has been constructed, can tell you a lot about the level of security it offers, and those with a higher steel content, typically offer a higher level of protection. To prevent entry from attacks by drills, sledgehammers, saws, pry bars and even plasma cutters, a high security safe should have multiple layers of cleverly configured anti-theft stop gaps, and the more layers a safe has, the more secure the items stored within it will be.

Does your business need a high security safe?

No matter what size your business is, or what you sell, you’re bound to have items that are worth protecting, and the only way of doing that aside from not keeping them on the premises, is to keep them locked away in a high security safe. Any business with a regular flow of customers, will have a need for a safe, and some businesses, like pharmacies for example, may have inventory that should be kept locked away at all times to prevent it from being stolen. In such cases, a high security safe with time-delay technology would be a sound investment, to prevent a thief from forcing a member of staff to open it.

In an ideal world, we would all secure our valuable and precious items in high security safes, but for businesses, it really is essential. If your business has been the target of theft, or you’re concerned that certain items stored inside the building are vulnerable to theft, you should invest in a high security safe at the earliest opportunity.