Car park access barriers are a necessity in the workplace. Controlling who is coming and going from your car park is essential for the security of your office or commercial premise. As well as heightening security, access barriers will stop congestion, cut time of arriving and leaving from work, and will ensure your staff members arrive at work on time. Access barriers like those available at http://www.elex-gates.co.uk/electric-barriers/ can be controlled by an on-site security staff member, or they can be connected to an intercom system that will give you total control over your car park.
A work car park should not be a free-for-all, and there are many ways you can ensure that your employees as well as your visitors always have somewhere to park. Your car park should be divided into different areas, these including staff, visitors, unloading and loading, and specifically designated areas for different work groups. You may wish to go as far as to assign each member of your workforce with their own parking space, retractable posts allowing on their cars to be parked there. Enforcing the structure of your car parking facility is a lot easier when car park access barriers are in place both at the entrance and exit.
Car Park Access Barriers: Stopping Congestion
If you have a car park for visitors, car park barriers can stop unnecessary congestion. Just like when you visit a car park in town, a barrier system will control whether the car park is full or not. This type of system will tell visitors that the car park is full, or alternatively it will tell them how many spaces are left. These systems are more complex than simply barrier systems, but they are a very worthwhile investment when you run a large car parking facility with heavy volumes of traffic every day.
Security
Allowing anyone to enter and exit your car park can be a risky business, most especially if your premise has expensive equipment or large amounts of money stored inside. In this instance, a simple barrier that lifts once a ticket is taken is not the best answer. This type of setup will require a system where a security guard manually controls who enters and exits, or a system that works via intercom or by typing a code into a pad that only employees have. Each staff member can be provided with a 4 or more digit code that is unique to them, and that will also control the time they arrive and leave the workplace.
Stopping Unwanted Visitors
A car park without a barrier system has no control over who uses it. This may not seem like a big problem if you are not store valuables onsite. But it can become a problem when members of the public start to use your car park out of convenience. If you took the time to count the number of cars in an open car park system at a supermarket, and then the number of customers in the store, you will always find that there are more cars than there should be. People will leave their car in your car park and walk into town to avoid paying for car parking, or to avoid congestion.
Some may even decide to leave their vehicle with you, knowing that it is safe while they go away on holiday. Or take a bus into town. An open car parking system should be avoided at all times. This is most especially the case at busy times of the year or when there is an event on in the local area. Simply displaying a sign that says that your car park is for visitors only will not suffice. Many people will simply ignore your sign, or in the case of a supermarket, leave their car for hours and only retrieve it at the end of the day after purchasing one or two small items from your store.
Fitting car park access barriers to your premise is not expensive. You can combine your barriers with intercoms, retractable bollards, CCTV, and more. The more control you have over your parking lot, the more efficiently and safely it will run. Choose from systems that are controlled by a security guard. Or choose a totally automated system that will allow you to cut back on expenditure of employing members of staff. With barriers available for all types of situations, and at affordable prices, investing a little in modernising your car park will allow for your day and your business to run more smoothly.
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