Protecting your business and all of your possessions as effectively as you can is undoubtedly important to you, but it can sometimes be difficult to know how you can best protect everything that you value. Keyholding is one of the services that can help protect both your business and your employees.
You might wonder what keyholding is, and how it will protect and support you. Here is what you need to know: keyholding is a service that simply protects your business. Key holding requires a company or an individual to hold a spare key to your commercial premises, which would protect you in the case of a primary key being stolen or lost. Usually a security firm will offer keyholding and response services. Basically, you give a key to a security firm, and they will securely hold it for you as well as responding to any alarm activations. This ultimately can be beneficial in numerous situations:
You have lost your key, or it has been stolen:
a stolen or lost key can certainly cause a major issue for your business, because without it you will not be able to access or lock your business’s facilities. In the case of having keyholding services in place, the security firm holding your premises’ keys would be able to come to the property and open or lock it for you, and then potentially sort out a new key for you as soon as possible.
Someone is breaking into your premises:
unfortunately, someone targeting your property and breaking in is a very real possibility. Although you might feel as though you could handle this unwanted intrusion personally, you never know who could be intruding so you might not be prepared to handle them. Generally, if you have a keyholding service in place, the security firm holding your key will be on hand and responding to the intrusion in a prompt and appropriate way.
Your alarm goes off:
an alarm going off is sometimes nothing at all, but you never know when it could be something more sinister setting off your business’ alarm. Whatever the reason your alarm goes off, your keyholder will usually respond to the alarm promptly to ensure nothing is awry.
Keyholding services offer peace of mind
If you are investing a lot in the running of a business, it is important that you have peace of mind that if anything was to happen at or to the premises, including break in or losing the keys, you would have the necessary security in place.
By arranging keyholding services for your business, you are ensuring that you will always have the peace of mind that you need to comfortably run your business. If there ever was a situation that you could not personally deal with, keyholding services would ensure that something was in place to deal with it for you as is appropriate.
Keyholding services mean you always have that Crucial Spare key
Although you would never intentionally lose the key to your business premises, there is no guarantee that you will never find yourself in the position where you have lost the key that you need to be able to access your property.
With keyholding services in place, losing the key to your business premises is something that you will never have to worry too much about. Although you obviously do not want to lose the key, you will always know that you simply have to contact your keyholder and they will be able to come and help you out at just a moment’s notice.
This article was written by Jack Mitchell with useful information from Admiral Security. Jack is a Yorkshire lad who enjoys reading, film and the great outdoors.
