Why Contract Security Is Cost-Effective for Your Business 

No matter what your business produces or provides, there is always a need to protect your facilities, assets and resources. As varied as our needs may be, most of us have an obvious need for a corporate security solution. The ongoing dilema remains, whether to try and secure your facility through in-house security with your own employees, make new hires, or to consider contract security from a professional provider.

Choosing a Contract Security Provider

For smaller organizations where resources are more limited, the situation may dictate the use of contract security.  In these cases, it is usually too costly to hire full-time workers who have these skills and state certifications, if required. However, for larger organizations the choice is a real one. More often than not, even for these larger organizations, a corporate security solution is the logical choice for a variety of reasons.

The first, and most obvious reason, is that security outsourcing is very cost competitive. When all of the costs associated with providing a corporate security solution are considered, contract security is almost always less expensive than in-house security scenarios. Hiring uniformed security guards as full-time employees incurs all of the normal costs associated with any employee, such as salary, payroll taxes, paid vacation, medical and retirement benefits. Additionally, there are often unrealized costs, specifically associated with the security function.  These include, specialized and often mandated training, state certification and individual Guard registration. 

With contract security services, these  functions will be handled by the provider at no additional expenditure. The outside contractor also handles all of the administrative details associated with  the security force. This includes all certifications, tracking and renewing of licenses, paying of state fees, handling of workers' compensation claims, administration of unemployment claims,  supervisory oversight, and if necessary, disciplinary actions.

Over and above these cost and administrative advantages, contract security provides a number of additional benefits. For well established security providers (like Atlas), these benefits include the ability to:

• >Draw on decades of expertise and experience to provide clients a set of options and recommendations for security-related issues or events.
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• >Adapt proven security and investigative techniques that are tailored to the client's specific needs, in a customized corporate security solution that maximizes efficiency.
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• >Utilize technology that allows for real time,  patrol monitoring, reporting, and GPS tracking.
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• >Create and implement standardized security policies and procedures.
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• >Maintain a constantly updated and refined training program in order to reflect recent trends and address emerging threats.
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• >Make frequent recommendations for improvements to the client.
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• >Keep contractor management costs relatively consistent, while being able to address special periodic needs of the client.
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• >The single greatest benefit a security partner can provide, is the knowledge that  the protection of your assets is in the hands of experts, armed with the latest techniques and technologies. This trust should  allow your organization to focus its energies and expertise on where it's needed most, in the pursuit of success in your area of expertise. For further information please contact us at, Atlas Security Services