If you have recently agreed to work with a plant hire service to furnish your site and project with the latest machinery and equipment, one of the next steps you need to take is to think about how to protect it from theft. There are various ways in which you can do this, both with the site and personnel, alongside measures that the plant hire company will have in place for its own purposes. Here, we look at a few ways in which you can keep a construction site as safe and secure as possible, ensuring that any equipment or machinery you hire from a plant hire service is kept secure overnight and safe from potential theft.
How to bolster security on your site
First, let us look at a few ways in which you can bolster the security on your own site to help protect machinery and equipment from potential theft.
Assess current security measures – first, take a look at the current security measures that you have in place on site. Sometimes, this could be as simple as fixing a broken fence panel, replacing some security lights or more, but it could mean an overhaul of your site security due to issues you have missed.
Plant hire storage – once you have received your plant hire delivery, where are you storing the machinery? This is especially important if you are working on a site that is not functioning 24 hours a day. Every site requires adequate, secure storage to store away vehicles, machinery, and equipment when not in use.
Adequate CCTV – with expensive and important machinery on site, investment in a good CCTV system could be crucial as a deterrent to potential criminals but also as a way of keeping an eye on and managing the site throughout the day and night. If there is a burglary on site, CCTV footage will help to identify the criminals.
Security put in place by your plant hire company
A national plant hire company with the reputation and experience that you need to assist you, will understand the pressures of security. There are many ways in which the client can keep machinery and equipment safe on site, but the plant hire company will be looking at ways to boost its own security. You’ll find that GPS tracking devices come as standard on any pieces of plant hire equipment and machinery these days. This is installed as a deterrent to ward off criminals of course, but it also provides peace of mind to both the plant hire company and the client.
If for any reason the vehicles and machinery have been stolen this does allow for tracking systems to locate the whereabouts of the stolen goods and it boosts the chances of them being recovered within 24 hours. On top of the security measures, a tracking device also helps you to manage the progress of your project, how the machinery and equipment is used on site by your staff and provides data and analysis to boost efficiency.
As you can see, there are quite a few ways in which plant hire machinery can be protected from potential theft. A working relationship with a professional plant hire service will go a long way to improving those safety and security standards.
