Safely controlling and overseeing access to depots can be uniquely challenging, particularly at sites with complex layouts and those that provide access to both vehicles and pedestrians. Without well-defined and understood rules regarding safe movement, operators run the risk of accidents, confusion and blockages harming people and impacting operational …
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UAP Group Limited (UAP), the Manchester-based door hardware specialist, has been acquired by global security provider Allegion. UAP holds nearly 200 patents, trademarks, and registered designs, including for its Armasmart range, the industry’s first door hardware range to eliminate 99.98% of viruses, including COVID-19. Following the acquisition, UAP will report into …
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The offspring of riches: Pride, vanity, ostentation, arrogance, tyranny Oops. Although, as cock-ups go, the adding of a journalist to a secret US Government chat-group is about as far from ‘oops’ as I am from being elected President of France (maybe I’m just not in the right WhatsApp groups). There …
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Travis Perkins has announced it has partnered with security firm, BauWatch, to offer construction firms a means of protecting their sites from theft. BauWatch’s range of deter and detect CCTV solutions will be available to hire from Travis Perkins, as part of a unique partnership for the builders’ merchants – …
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We can make our lives sublime And, departing, leave behind us Footprints on the sands of time We all know what we mean by our ‘carbon footprint’. Goodness knows we’ve been talking about it long enough, and businesses are spending masses of time, and bags of cash, in trying to …
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It often seems that specifiers face a choice between mechanical and digital access control systems, with solutions such as mechanically operated push button locksets viewed as being inferior to their electronic counterparts. Craig Birch, Product Category Manager at UNION, explains why the latest changes to BS 8607 means new, security-focused …
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Leading security brands Chubb Locks Custodial Services (CLCS), Intelligent Locking Systems (ILS) and Pickersgill-Kaye (Kaye) have formed as the High Security & Safety group, a new division of ASSA ABLOY Opening Solutions UK & Ireland. As strong, heritage brands in the high security and rail industries, CLCS, ILS and Kaye …
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Viessmann has launched a ‘Security and Style’ sales promotion to help installers fight the threat of van tool theft. Throughout the whole of 2019, installers purchasing Viessmann Vitodens boilers and Vitocell cylinders will be rewarded with points, which can be used to obtain selected items from Birchwood Price Tools, the …
Read More »Security expert Abloy UK is highlighting its market-leading range of tough products that have been specially designed to stand the test of time against extreme weather conditions. Natural forces – whether that’s storms from the sea, burning sun, biting frost or desert sand and dust – subject high security installations …
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Bull Products, a manufacturer of life-saving fire protection equipment, has strengthened its Cygnus wireless alarm range with a new product that allows for heightened out-of-hours protection to ensure a safer site around the clock. The new 3G Auto Dialler allows site managers to programme up to nine phone numbers of …
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