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How to Keep Your Business Parking Lot Safe

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If you are running a business from a shared office, then one thing that you do need to ensure is that your parking lot outside is as safe as possible. Even if the parking lot has a massive fence around it, it doesn’t make it safe. It’s very easy to take parking lots for granted because they have a very simple purpose. They are there for people to park their cars so that they can go to work. Most of the time everything is really easy to manage, but you need the parking lot to be safe not only for your employees but for the cars themselves.

An incident can result in negative publicity, lawsuits, and issues with security and people feeling safe in the office. The last thing you want is for cars to be going through massive potholes and breaking down or for people to feel unsafe when they walk through a parking lot to get to their car. Let’s take a look at how you can make sure that your business parking lot is safe.

  1. Fix the potholes. One of the best ways to make your parking lot safe is to fix the concrete. Using commercial concrete services, you can fill all the potholes and even the parking lot so that people aren’t damaging their cars just trying to find a decent parking space. Consider the fact that people are going to be coming to work every day, which means your parking lot is going to take on a lot of heavyweights. Instead of waiting for the whole thing to crumble, regular inspections of the concrete will help you to understand whether or not people are safely driving in or if they are spending a lot of money damaging their cars on your concrete.
  2. Hire a security guard. A good way to ensure that your business parking lot is safe is to have somebody patrol it. A security guard can move from one space to the next, ensuring that all cars are safe and that people are safe as they go from the building to their own vehicles.
  3. Add more lighting. If you do a survey, especially among the women in your office, of what can be done to make the parking lot safer, you can bet that visibility is going to be a concern. Women want to feel safe when they are walking through the premises that they work in, which means everything should be completely floodlit and open to see. This way, CCTV cameras can capture anybody hiding in the shadows or lurking behind cars. Brighter lighting discourages criminals and improves visibility for those walking. People will often feel much safer in well-lit areas because it makes it more difficult to experience a security risk like being snuck up on.
  4. Use signage. It’s a good idea to make sure that you have signs up for one person of the potential dangers when they are walking through your parking lot. Signs and stripes can advise drivers to slow down or if there is a sharp curve or a dip in the road. It’s also a good idea to make sure that you have signage up to show potential criminals that there is CCTV and that they are being watched.