Compliance that never closes the shop floor

Retail compliance competes directly with trading hours. Testing that needs isolation, alarm work that needs sounders running and any works involving access equipment all have to happen when customers are not there — which usually means early mornings, evenings or overnight.

On the security side the requirement is evidential rather than decorative. Insurers and loss prevention teams need footage that identifies people at tills and entrances, alarm grading that satisfies the policy, and back-of-house access control that stops stockroom shrinkage.

For multi-store operators the win is consistency: the same specification, the same reporting and the same response time whether the store is in Truro or Exeter.

Typical clients
Common challenges
How we work here
Case studies

CCTV and intruder refresh across six stores

Legacy analogue systems replaced with IP surveillance specified to identification standard at tills and entrances, plus graded intruder alarms accepted by the insurer without exception.

6

Stores

0

Trading hours lost

1

Specification

Case studies

Work delivered in education settings

Multi-academy trust

EICR remediation across three sites

Testing and remedials delivered inside two holiday windows, certificates issued before term restarted.

3

Sites

0

Term-time days lost

Primary school

Fire alarm upgrade and lockdown alarm

Replacement addressable panel with a separate lockdown tone, installed over a half-term break.

1 wk

Programme

BS 5839

Compliant

Sixth form college

CCTV and access control refresh

Legacy analogue replaced with IP surveillance and fob access across nine controlled doors.

9

Doors

24

Cameras

Protecting stock, staff and takings?

We will review each store and specify to what your insurer actually requires.