Philosophy of Good Security Plans!

“When a man in soul, the intellect is dead, unchecked evil prevails” - Eckhart

Certain things are for certain, and must happen with passage of time. These could both be positive or negative. Let us face the reality; most of these are negative in nature.

Pearl S Buck, in ‘The Good Earth’ stated that, ‘when the rich get too rich, the poor shall not sit back but react to correct the imbalance’.

That the ‘rate of crimes shall definitely continue to rise’ should be the foregone deduction of the conditions prevailing in our society. Because…

• Inflation rates notwithstanding, the money shall continue to buy less and less.
• The good old values shall continue to erode.
• The forces of nature shall continue to be challenged by the technology growth.
• Industrialization and mechanization shall continue to affect the nature adversely, thereby adding to the pollution and environmental degradation.
• Our vulnerabilities in the areas of fire, safety and security are going to go up!
• We need to focus on Total Loss Prevention Program (TLPP),

The ruthless ambitious nature of the human being shall continue to harness unhealthy competition. This shall result in personal aggrandizement of wealth in the hands of the few, conversely poverty shall increase, and so shall the numbers that shall be afflicted by it.

All the deteriorating conditions shall have multiplier adverse effect on the security and safety of our society, as also the Corporate and Industry. The prevailing conditions in India have focused every body’s attention to the security measures in the industry which started taking appropriate measures in this regard. The concerted and tangible attempts by the industries have been visible since last three decades as far as security manpower is concerned. Introduction of technical gadgets is hardly a decade old phenomenon.

Three developments are taking place in India –

• Opening-up of economy in last decade and despite odds, most stable
• Tremendous development of Information technology
• Realization that India can, and, will be a major power in the world, and, efforts of Industries to get ready for it.

As a result ‘Industrial Security’ has gained importance and it is being treated as profit making activity. We all have a responsibility to safeguard the company’s assets and interests, including its name, image and reputation, by treating all company property with the same respect as we would our own.

Keith Crowdy has said, “When all parts of the business are striving to drive down costs, we must not allow large sums of money to be lost due to vandalism and theft.”

Bloom time or gloom time, security and safety industry is going to grow as during bloom time asset creation and profit making will lead to enhanced security and gloom time will lead to depression, short supply and high demands and will lead to anarchy when higher security is needed by Industry. Safety will be hand-in-hand with changing security landscapes.

As in war, in field of security it is not who is right, but who is ‘left’. We will be known not by what we have done, but, by what we have not done!

Let’s do it right!!!