Clay Crost Talks About School Security on Price of Business Radio
Clay Crost is the Director of Education with Sonitrol Great Lakes. Clay has been in the security business for 34 years working in all areas of security including intrusion,…
How Effective Is Your School’s Fire Evacuation Plan?
Recommendations to help make your facility safer With the academic year in full swing, schools across the country are beginning their first rounds of fire drills. As alarms blare and…
How layered business security can reduce workplace stress
There are many stressors in the workplace. Tight deadlines, miscommunications, misunderstandings, and excessive workloads are just a few examples of things that can create stress on the job. Other things…
School Staffers Share Safety, Security Responsibilities
When it comes to school safety and security, administrators, teachers, and campus support staff are all members of the security team. This includes custodians and janitors, front office staff, nurses…
Three Strategies to Improve School Parking Area Security
How safe is your school’s parking lot or garage? From unauthorized visitors to vandalism to property theft and assault, school parking areas supply criminals with easy targets and tempting assets.…
Beyond Security: Improve Your Facility Protection With These 4 Important Enhancements
It's the little things that make the big difference. Most commercial security systems cover at least relatively similar areas, whether you choose Sonitrol Great Lakes or another. If there’s a…
Ask Sonitrol: What Does Verified Response Mean?
Taking the guesswork out of electronic security At Sonitrol Great Lakes, our verified responsive monitoring framework guarantees better results and faster police response times. And with fewer accounts per monitoring…
Know the Facts: Fire Detection Safety
One of the most basic needs to protect our children while they are in school is a fire safety system. Children (and staff) spend the majority of their day inside…
Get the app: How remote security monitoring works
Remote video monitoring has become very popular in recent years, and this is largely due to the convenience it provides to property owners. This technology takes video surveillance a step…
School Break-Ins: Make Them a Learning Moment
School break-ins, vandalism and theft have become a growing and expensive problem for the nation’s 84,000 public schools. How big and how expensive? The U.S. Department of Education estimates that…