Secure Your Small Business With ADT

31 March, 2009

ADT understands that quality and affordability are important to many small business owners in search of security. ADT can help you satisfy your goals by providing a highly customized, affordable security package.

To help you identify areas of risk exposure, ADT has created a Loss Prevention Guide. With this informative guide, you can prevent loss by learning about the common risks that affect small businesses. For the ultimate in small business security, supplement your ADT security system by following these intuitive safety tips:

• Light exterior points of entry with difficult to reach, permanent fixtures
• Light the interior well enough for inside activity to be visible from outside
• Utilize a fence or a hedge
  • Fences should not block visibility
  • Hedges should be wide, not high, and offensive to the touch
• Safety coat vulnerable windows
• Utilize window locks that cannot be reached after breaking the glass
• Install interior motion sensors
• Utilize an alarm system to detect the opening of doors and breaking of windows
• Install a deadbolt lock on every exterior door
• Employ high-quality padlocks on overhead and receiving doors

ADT has been successful in reducing costly false alarms. Fifteen years ago, ADT initiated the telephone verification of alarm signals. With this procedure, now the industry standard, security professionals will call someone from your Emergency Call List before contacting the authorities. This practice saves time and money, by reducing the frequency of false alarms.

ADT would like to share the following small business security facts:

• Shoplifting costs businesses between $9.5 and $11 per year
• Shoplifting takes place between 380 and 440 times per year
• Property loss due to fires is approximately $8.6 billion per year

Visit www.adt.com to request your free Loss Prevention Guide.