Security Products Or Safety Products
The term "security products" covers a lot of ground
. Typically, people might think that it refers to products like bulletproof vests, CCTV cameras or burglar alarms. To be fair, they'd be right to a certain extent. Still, the phrase covers a lot more than just security products designed to prevent crime or violent injury.
Referring to the dictionary, we can see that "security" means "freedom from risk or danger; safety". Here's the first clue that security products are useful to a wider range of interests than simply guards, watchmen or the police. In fact, many security products could be better known as "safety products".
The biggest sectors of work that use such products are those at the heart of civil infrastructure. Beginning with the most well-known (and probably most dramatic), there is the police force - and though you may not see them on the street, this also extends to the domestic security services.
These bodies use the widest variety of security products and the ones that instantly spring to mind when you hear the term - body armour, riot shields, batons, crowd control weaponry, bomb defusing gear, as well as the more innocuous devices like ID cards, biometric systems, closed circuit television systems, search equipment and other types of surveillance.
Less obvious though is the crossover between security products and the other emergency services - the ambulance and fire brigade. On consideration, the crossover is clear; a fire can cause far more harm than the average criminal and has the potential to be equally as devastating as an explosive device. Likewise, the ambulance and hospital services face a much higher risk of infectious disease or chemical contamination on a day-to-day basis than anyone else. Though the danger is more subtle, it's still very real and there are a range of product solutions on offer to help protect staff and minimise the risk to patients, such as protective masks or biometric monitoring systems.
Of course nothing exists in isolation and the reality is that these groups are far from the exclusive users of this kind of product.
Commercial businesses such as banks or airports make up a huge section of the market for the classically defined security market; although a police presence could be typical at either location, the chances are that a private security force will also be equipped and on-site at all times.
CCTV systems are used by practically every organisation in the private and public sector, from the corner shops to the corporate headquarters. Today, private security forces are less likely to be directly employed by an organisation and more likely to be part of a contract/client arrangement - as you can imagine, they have a vested interest in being as equipped as possible.
By the same token - though to a much lesser extent - many organisations have some degree of firefighting security equipment at hand in case of emergency. Aside from the fire alarm systems that are in place as standard, many businesses will have some form of fire suppression equipment either installed in the system or on hand for staff to use in the case of extreme emergency.
This has barely scratched the surface of how many different industries, employers and organisations make use of security and safety products though. Industrial workers are often required to wear protective equipment and high-visibility clothing for example, or there's the employees of the penal system or even power station workers or NGO's working in high-risk environments. Even something as simple as a personal alarm device is technically a security product - something that's often handed out to students or other young or vulnerable people for free at some point in their lives.
When it comes down to it, security just means safety. A security product is anything that helps keep you safe.
by:marchalandwe
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