More than ever, businesses and companies today are vulnerable to multiple security threats, including theft, burglary, vandalism, and even terrorism. As a business owner, it's your responsibility to ensure your property, employees, customers, and everything else in the business premises is safe from these threats. And this is why you need to install an access control system. Below are four ways this can benefit your business. 

Reduce Theft

Your business can be a target for thieves irrespective of its size. Those old monitors and furniture items sitting in the store can be valuable to a criminal. Luckily, an access control system enables you to restrict only authorized personnel entry to specific areas or buildings. Hence, it becomes difficult for an intruder to enter and make away with your valuables. 

Besides, you may want to assume your employees cannot steal from you, but statistics show that around 75% of employees steal from their workplaces at least once. With an access storage system, you have the record of the persons who entered inventory storage, making it easy to identify the culprit. 

Eliminate Physical Contact 

As your business looks to adhere to COVID-19 protocols, you may want to limit physical contact between employees on shared surfaces like elevator buttons and doorknobs. Thanks to access control systems, your employees can use their individual cards to access all areas. 

Another advantage to these systems is you can limit the foot traffic entering and leaving the facility. With traditional key systems, some employees may not have the keys, so they have to wait for their colleagues and enter as a group. But now, you can produce an access card for every employee to allow them to enter individually. 

Avoid Expensive Re-Keying

Traditional key systems are difficult to manage. When a staff member loses their key or is fired, you have to re-key the entire lock system, as you don't want a stranger or an ex-employee being able to access the property at will. There is also the risk of an employee making copies of their key and distributing them to persons outside the organization. 

Eliminate all these hassles by installing an access control system. Your management team can easily terminate a key card or change passwords when an employee is fired from the job. 

Protect Your Employees

In today's world, you cannot trust every person that walks in through your door. Some of them may come intending to hurt your employees. 

An access control system gives you control over who enters the areas where your employees are stationed. As your employees work, they don't have to worry about external threats and can focus on hitting their set goals. 

Contact a company like California Commercial Security to learn more.