 checklist for the winter and summer seasons. For instance, in the winter you want to inspect the site for snow and ice. Clear any found on the ground, scaffolding, ladders, steps, walkways, and windows.
The same applies after a rainy day. You want to reduce the chances of anyone slipping. Look for puddles and remediate them as appropriate. For any areas you can't clear, rope it off or put up a clearly marked sign with instructions. Ensure the sign cannot blow away or fall over.
Perimeter security involves putting systems in place to protect everything within the boundary. The goal is to maintain safety, keep intruders out, and deter crime. Perimeter security focuses on more than protecting the building on the job site. It also looks at safeguarding the areas outside of the facility such as the parking garage, loading area, pedestrian traffic, and landscaping.
Many options exist to help construction companies secure the job site for the entire duration of the project. The more layers they add to the security, the better the protection. Fortifying the security of your property can be as easy as locking the gates to as powerful as adding remote video surveillance with artificial intelligence.
Companies that go longer without a workplace incident have one thing in common. They hold safety training on a regular basis. Security should be part of that training because all it takes is one slip-up by a worker to bring down security. When you create your security strategy, include training, how often you'll host training, and what it will cover.
Your workers are the best source for reporting potential problems. Emphasize the importance of "see something, say something" in the training. However, some fear saying anything in fear of retaliation. So, you want to provide a way for them to anonymously report problems. Every new project and job site should have its own training.
An access control system is an effective security option for construction sites. It affords an easy way to manage who can and cannot enter the construction site. It's an automated way to provide access to a construction site with a fenced perimeter. Managers won't have to worry about outsiders walking on the property.
Whether you use an access control system, aim to have only one access point. This gives you greater control over traffic coming and going, or perhaps, one entry point and one exit point. This may improve traffic flow. Try to keep pedestrian and vehicle traffic separate.
Dark construction sites may scare a lot of folks, but they don't scare intruders. They know the darkness will make it harder to spot them. Using floodlights will reduce the temptation to trespass on the job site. Work with a security specialist to determine the most effective way to light the property after-hours and after sundown while people continue working.
Weather delays and damages cost construction sites billions of dollars. That's why it's essential for management to monitor the weather and the job site. One of the easiest ways to do that is with video surveillance cameras. (Next tip.) The cameras can monitor a site for damage from frozen pipes, flooding, and other natural disasters. The sooner the problem is caught, the faster it can be resolved and minimize the associated costs from the damage.
Training comes to play again here. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) recommend that construction employers and workers receive training on summer and winter weather safety. Equipment needs to be prepared and maintained differently between hot and cold weather. Workers also need to be outfitted with proper gear for the temperatures and tasks.
Strategically placed surveillance cameras help deter crime and vandalism, minimize damage, and help protect you from liability claims. To maximize construction site security with security cameras, you want to implement remote video surveillance that combines artificial intelligence and human monitoring.
Working with a hybrid monitoring solution, you get the benefit of artificial intelligence taking over mundane tasks while the monitoring operator makes decisions on how to respond. AI's job is to scan the entire property for any number of programmed scenarios. It'll watch for people approaching the property after-hours. 
As soon as the system identifies something irregular, it notifies the on-duty monitoring operator. Depending on the activity, the operator can react by issuing a warning over an on-site speaker and it's done without being physically present on the construction site. If the trespasser does not leave, then the operator can track the suspect while contacting law enforcement to provide updates.
On top of keeping watch over the entire perimeter, video surveillance records everything that happens on the construction site. Law enforcement and insurance companies can use the video footage as evidence in criminal cases and liability claims. It can potentially lower your liability insurance premiums and other costs.
What makes video surveillance different from other security solutions is that it's proactive. It delivers the highest level of security for your construction site while helping to reduce liability and hazards. Video surveillance ensures a quick ROI for security because of all these benefits and more.
For a deep dive into this topic, download the Construction Security and Safety Best Practices guide. This detailed construction security guide discusses industry challenges and offers solutions. You'll learn about the current and forecasted trends in construction security as well as the options available. It also has recommended industry best practices to help you set up more secure and safer construction sites. If you'd like to learn more now or after reading the guide, contact us.Brisbane Water Police have released CCTV images of a woman they wish to speak to in relation to the fraudulent use of credit cards stolen from a motor vehicle in February.
Between 4:30pm and 5:30pm on Thursday, February 13, a 2000 White Toyota Corolla Sedan was parked within a residential carpark on Karalta Rd, Erina, when entry was gained and property stolen, including identification and banking cards.
A bank card was subsequently used fraudulently a short time later at businesses in the area.
Following investigations, police from Brisbane Water Police District have obtained images of a woman who they believe may be able to assist with their enquiries.
The woman is described as being of Islander appearance in her mid 20’s.
Colorado church shootings: 3 letters
Re: “No easy ‘answers’ to tragedy,” Dec. 11 David Harsanyi column.
I very much appreciate the spirit of the column by David Harsanyi, with whom I sometimes disagree. While there are no easy answers, there are some tough ones, which have been hashed out in this paper and others ad nauseam. So enough about guns, religious proselytizing, et al, for now. His column suggests, if maybe subliminally, the step beyond those, to tolerance. We need to practice it from the day we’re born.
Young people especially need the guidance that lets them appreciate the diversity around them: not just race, gender, creed, etc., but outlook, temperament and political persuasion. Reach out to that loner who’s maybe not such a bad guy, the shy girl who’d thrive on a little acceptance. By doing this ourselves, as parents and/or teachers/mentors, we set an example for the next generation to follow. We probably won’t save all the Matthew Murrays out there, but we might make some headway as a society.
Anne Culver, Denver
David Harsanyi correctly notes that ideologues will pounce on tragedies such as the Arvada and Colorado Springs killings of Christians to “prove” their own theories. But, unlike The Post’s editorial board (“Making sense of the senseless,” Dec. 11 editorial), he wrongly suggests that we should not seek explanations for such violence. His view that “some things just are” is a formula for collective helplessness. If things “just are,” why do Americans perpetually suffer a much higher per capita rate of violence, including “senseless” killings, than the citizens of other comparably wealthy, educated nations such as Denmark, Norway, Netherlands, Germany, Austria, France, Italy and Japan?
Ironcially, Harsanyi seems to have jumped on these Colorado tragedies to support his own libertarian ideology: In a free society such as ours, bad stuff is just going to happen. But he is begging the key question of whether it might not be possible to optimize our freedom without sacrificing too much security. One specific public-policy suggestion would be to provide more interventions and better help for those who have shown themselves to be seriously troubled and violence-prone. Simply kicking them out of religious, educational, occupational or other programs seems dangerously inadequate.
Michael S. Cummings, Denver
Your editorial was sensitive and on target, as was David Harsanyi’s column. However, I think you omitted a very important component of this tragedy – the family and friends of Matthew Murray. You mention the victims as those who were shot or wounded by him. You mention the security guard’s heroism and the heroism of others in the face of danger. All important, all deserving of note.
But what about what Matthew Murray’s family? A greater suffering I cannot imagine. You do everything you think is right to give your children a good start in life. You instill a sense of ethics and honor and goodness in them. You send them off into the world hoping that what you did was right. And then to have it explode in your face and send you and your family reeling from the shock and the loss and the grief of not only losing a son but of having to live with what this son did to others.
We need to remember that there are other victims in addition to those who have been mentioned. They are the innocent victims, but so are the parents and brother and extended family and friends of the young man, Matthew Murray, whose short life