From implementing surveillance systems to protecting digital data, adopting security measures can help shield your laboratory from both physical and cyber threats and even enhance operational efficiency and reduce insurance costs. Here are eight strategies for ensuring a safer environment for your business:
1. Increase building security. Laboratory owners use a variety of strategies to keep their building and employees secure, including lighting, motion detectors, alarm systems and exterior cameras. For example, after a string of thefts and vandalism, Ray Dental Studio, Kent, WA, set up nine exterior cameras. “We’re in a bit of a sketchy area and things have gotten worse since COVID. We had at least five break-ins; they took some tools and implant drivers but left things like our expensive computers,” says Thuan Ta, Lab Manager.
In the event of an intrusion during working hours, his lab also keeps pepper...
