Construction Site Security

Construction Site Concerns

Construction projects require equipment. Lots of equipment. Leaving your equipment on the job site is a no-brainer. It saves you valuable time. But, leaving your very expensive equipment in the field for long periods of time could make you the target of thieves looking to make a quick buck.

Protecting your equipment from construction site theft is important. You don’t want someone to swoop in during the middle of the night and steal it. What do you do?

A secure fence perimeter on the job site is an effective option. Simply keep your equipment and tools inside. This will help keep the bad guys out. It’s the most common choice for construction site security.

This works great when your construction project is stationary. But what happens if your job site is portable? How do you keep equipment and tools safe from theft when your job site is not always in one place? What if your equipment and tools frequently move from one location to the next? This produces a whole new level of challenges for security.

You need to make sure that you can securely lock up your valuables and know they will be there when you arrive the next day to continue work. For these types of construction projects, trailers are used to store equipment and tools. These large trailers are equipped with locks but that is not enough to keep the thieves at bay. These trailers need additional layers of security to keep everything inside them safe and secure.

The Impact of Construction Equipment Theft

It can be devastating when your equipment gets stolen. You have to replace it and that costs money. Money that impacts the bottom line or will increase insurance premiums when you make a claim.

But it does not stop there.

You lose precious production time on your project because the equipment and tools you need aren’t available for that period of time between when they disappear and you replace them. This lost production time is costly.

Another thing to consider is the time and resources that you, the construction company, must spend to deal with the theft. Not only do you need to replace the equipment and make up for lost production time, you need to figure out who did this, where your job site was vulnerable, and how to prevent this from happening again.

You Need a Better Way

What you need is a construction site security system that will prevent theft in the first place.

You need to make the trailers housing your equipment secure so that, even if someone were to break in, they do not get far.

You need a security system that will stop these thieves dead in their tracks.

Better Job Site Security

There is a better way to secure your job site. Technology allows you to easily place surveillance cameras all around your construction site, and GPS technology can be used to track your vehicles in case of construction site theft. Geo-fencing allows you to create a virtual perimeter around your construction site. It will cut the engine of equipment once it is moved outside a certain area and alert you that it has been moved.

Simply marking your machinery and tools with your company’s logo can deter theft, too. Thieves don’t want to work too hard removing any markings. So, equipment that is clearly marked by the owner is harder to sell and easier to recover.

It is also important to keep your construction site well-lit at all times. Crooks want to be inconspicuous, so lighting up your site at night will keep them at bay. The more light, the greater the risk is of them being seen.

While all of these efforts are helpful, they are still not enough to solve the problem. With construction site theft continuing to rise, you need a surefire way to keep your equipment safe and secure.

You need a custom security solution as unique as every construction job you work.

Construction Site Security Challenges

Your construction site security is only as tight as the system you have in place to deter theft. You might think the solutions you have in place for job site security are top-notch, when in reality, weaknesses in your system make you an easy target.

Can your security system be easily disarmed? Is your fence easy to open or climb? Is your job site susceptible to vandalism? These are all common issues that make your construction site security weak.

Another common pain point in traditional job site security systems is when it requires a phone line and dedicated power source. It becomes more of a burden than a help because it has to be disconnected and reconnected every time the job site trailer is moved to a new job.

It’s also an inconvenience if you need to be on-site to arm or disarm the system, and if it requires administrative involvement to keep track of job site trailer locations. It is simply impossible for you to be on-site all of the time. And if your system costs extra for 24/7/365 monitoring, you might want to think about finding a better security solution.

Your Job Site Security Solution

Get started by talking to one of the Seagate Mobile Security Solutions experts to learn more. We can address the problem of job site theft and ease the burden of dealing with it before it ever happens in the first place or happens again.

Our system will:

The Seagate Mobile Security System pays for itself by protecting your equipment and supplies and keeping them out of the hands of criminals. Just ask our customers, like the E.S. Wagner Company.

“For over 24 years, Seagate’s Mobile Security System has protected our equipment, tools, and materials. They currently monitor dozens of office and tool trailers for our business. As a result, our losses have been drastically reduced and our employee and project downtime has been cut in half. The system is automatically tracked via GPS hardware over the cellular network. No longer is it necessary to have office staff manually keep track of the locations of the trailers as they move to different job sites.”