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Designing Pedestrian-Friendly Parking Lots
There is no question that societies want to keep college campuses, school grounds and medical facilities safe. While security designs have focused mainly on interior updates to making these areas safer, they do little to help stop preventable accidents that occur frequently in campus parking lots. High-security devices can offer much more to these locations than just keeping violent aggressors at bay.
Controlling the Campus
Controlling access into your facility is vital in keeping your employees and patrons safe. Allowing unauthorized vehicles onto your premises can be a recipe for disaster. A vehicle can be used to cause mass casualties by sheer speed and force or exploding at a crowded location. It is crucial to only allow vehicles that are considered ‘safe’ to enter your premises. How do you go about this and make sure everyone is protected? Let’s talk about some best practices to help keep your perimeter secure.
Security Today
Accelerating Security Modernization Why digital transformation is critical to today’s financial systems By Matt Tengwall In recent years, the term “digital transformation” has been one of the most frequently used buzzwords across industries. On its most basic level, it refers to the reimagining of how an organization leverages its technology systems to improve business processes.
Stop that Vehicle
Stop that Vehicle A wayward driver. A medical emergency. Maybe someone who wants to inflict harm. These are all examples of a vehicle jumping on a sidewalk and causing injuries to pedestrians and workers.
printer friendly version Assessing vehicular risks Access & Identity Management Handbook 2022 Access Control & Identity Management By Greg Hamm, vice president, Sales and Marketing, Delta Scientific. Keeping pedestrians safe, protecting structures from accidental or intentional automobile crashes and force protection (keeping employees and visitors from harm) have always been a concern.
How Temporary Barriers are Changing Event Security Strategies
How Temporary Barriers are Changing Event Security Strategies 1 October 2021 Security Technology, October 2021 Staying one step ahead by identifying vulnerable areas, and securing them, is critical to staving off vehicular attacks. That means being able to deploy security equipment in tough conditions at a moment's notice. Such equipment exists—portable temporary barriers.
A Permanent Solutions
A Permanent Solutions Temporary barriers serve many customers from a political event to farmers’ market By Greg Hamm Mar 02, 2021 The trend that has catapulted to the top of the list for vehicle perimeter security is securing temporary events with certified crash equipment that can be installed in only 15 minutes by the customer and simply towed away when the occasion is over – such as protecting farmers’ market shoppers from an errant vehicle or a political event’s spectators from car and...
Designing Pedestrian-Friendly Parking Lots
There is no question that societies want to keep college campuses, school grounds and medical facilities safe. While security designs have focused mainly on interior updates to making these areas safer, they do little to help stop preventable accidents that occur frequently in campus parking lots. High-security devices can offer much more to these locations than just keeping violent aggressors at bay.
Stop at the Point of Contact
Stop at the Point of Contact Making sites less susceptible to vehicle attacks By Greg Hamm Oct 01, 2019 The vast majority of discussions involving security and parking areas focus on protecting people and property from vandalism, theft or violent crimes. Thus, when planning security features for a new or existing parking lot or garage, the first consideration must be the level of security required for that particular facility.
Protecting Pedestrians with Vehicle Barriers and Fences
The use of vehicles as tools of destruction has become one of the top security concerns for public spaces. Barriers and fences can help keep crowds safe. At some events, such as this street festival, sections typically open to traffic are closed to create pedestrian paths and gathering points. In this case, a portable, towable barrier from Delta Scientific helped to secure the space. Schools, universities and hospitals seem to be frequent targets for attacks by vehicles.
Security Today
July/August 2019 Moving to the Door A Winning Security Plan Relying on Power Thermal Imagers Deployed Using Mass Notification Cover Story Moving to the Door Biometrics makes its way across the enterprise By Steve Carney Biometrics have rapidly expanded into our daily lives, as millions of people use fingerprints to unlock their mobile phones, access cash through ATMs, and verify their identity in a growing range of use cases.
Thwart Threats of Vehicle Terror Attacks
Recently, on April 23, 2018, a white rental van intentionally plowed down a crowd of pedestrians in the Toronto suburb of Richmond Hill, killing ten and injuring 15. On October 31, 2017, an Islamic terrorist drove a rented pickup truck into cyclists and runners for about one mile of the Hudson River Park's bike path in Lower Manhattan. The vehicle-ramming attack killed eight people and injured eleven others. This has been happening for some time – vehicles being used as weapons.
Countering the threats of retail terrorist vehicle attacks
Countering the threats of retail terrorist vehicle attacks March 2019, This Week's Editor's Pick, Access Control & Identity Management, Security Services & Risk Management, Retail (Industry) By Greg Hamm, vice president – sales and marketing, Delta Scientific. On December 19, 2016, the news exploded with information about a vehicle attack on a Christmas market in Berlin that killed at least 12 and injured more than 50.
Protecting Hard to Protect Areas
By their very nature, terrorist attacks are unpredictable and predicated on surprise. Staying one step ahead by identifying vulnerable areas, and securing them, is critical to staving off vehicular attacks. That means being able to deploy security equipment in tough conditions, at a moment’s notice. A year ago this month, an Islamic terrorist drove a rented pickup truck into cyclists and runners for about one mile of the Hudson River Park’s bike path in Lower Manhattan, New York City.
Festive Security
Reacting to tragedies in London and Berlin, among others, where vehicles were used as weapons against large numbers of pedestrians, the Fremont (Calif.) City Council decided to heighten protection for its citizens from errant drivers and terrorist vehicles driven at events such as their Fremont Festival of the Arts, Niles Antique Faire and Flea Market, Festival of India, parades and other affairs.
All Too Common -- Security Today
On Dec.19, 2016, the news exploded with information about a vehicle attack on a Christmas market in Berlin that killed at least 12 people and injured over 50 more. Less than a month before that, the State Department had warned about such attacks in public places throughout Europe, saying that extremist groups including the Islamic State and Al Qaeda were planning to focus on such locales during the holiday season.
Preventing Vehicle Terror Attacks on Campus with Bollards
As this article was being written in December 2016, news reports were coming in that a vehicle attack on a Christmas market in Berlin killed at least 12 people and injured more than 50 others. Less than a month before, the U.S. State Department had warned about such attacks in public places throughout Europe, saying that extremist groups including the Islamic State and Al Qaeda were focusing on such locales during the holiday season.
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