Facility managers, organizational leaders, and anyone responsible for maintaining safe and secure environments for a specific population must lend careful consideration to the selection of a security provider. 
 

As companies may be assessing their operational teams at the start of the new year, we thought we’d repost one of our more popular blogs on the subject of outfitting your security personnel to best reflect the role served.

Due to rapid growth and expansion, Allied Universal is seeking phenomenal talent across all our regions, including Canada. We’re recruiting to fill a variety of security professional roles including account managers, concierges, dispatchers, high-rise lobby ambassadors, supervisors and vehicle and bike patrollers.

People often say “be safe” after ending a conversation with another in a variety of settings. But what does that mean to you? Does that mean you should use handrails when going up or down a staircase? Or abide by traffic rules of not texting while driving? Does being safe mean keeping your doors locked at home? It probably means some of these things and more, depending upon where you live and work.

With so much to do during the holidays, it can be easy to forget that safety should remain a primary concern at home, at work and on the job. The holidays are hardly the time to turn a blind eye to safety.

The Global Climate Risk Index 2017 analyzes the extent to which countries have been affected by the impact of weather-related loss. This year’s index confirms that, although less developed countries are generally more likely to be devastated by weather than industrialized nations, even areas that are typically immune from such risk would do well to prepare.

Now that the major holidays are upon us, take a few minutes to extend your safety culture. This is not only the time of year for special celebrations, it’s also prime for safeguarding your belongings and assets—especially those you’ve eagerly awaited as gifts or those you stowed away for that special loved one.
 

The emergence of smart technology into the security sector is changing risk management economics and strategy in unique ways. Such technology leverages information management at its core for a more effective security program. Case in point is the burgeoning role of autonomous data machines (ADMs or robots) that are purposely built for security. 

The holiday season is right around the corner. The stores have sales, you have a list and the mall management companies have security. While we don’t often think about the role of security professionals in the retail setting when we head to the mall, we experience their influence with every visit. While the overall focus is to create a safe and secure environment, the role of the security officer is varied, and changes based on the location and sometimes based on what is happening on a particular day.