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Implementing a secure and reliable solution for managing the evacuation of personnel working within a plant in case of an emergency is really a vital measure for the industrial segment, considering just how dangerous and potentially deadly a fire can prove to be in this environment.

The UK’s small and medium businesses (SMBs) have fully benefited from the economy’s strong growth, the latest SME Monitor published by the Aldermore Bank was able to reveal.

The changing attitudes towards access control systems, CCTV surveillance systems and other security products among end-users are set to go under scrutiny as part of the British Security Industry Association latest survey.

A local council’s CCTV system has managed to help the local police officers make more than 400 arrests over the course of 2013, a news report in the local media was able to reveal.

More than one million public sector workers went on strike today over pay and pensions, including teachers, civil servants, coastguards, civilian police staff and prison staff, with services across England and Wales being severely affected as a result.

The vast majority (over 94%) of managers in the UK work above their contracted hours each week, either in the office or at home, new research from the Institute of Leadership Management (ILM) was able to reveal.

The next-generation of highly secure access control standards will be developed as a result of the collaborative efforts of the Open Network Video Interface Forum (ONVIF) and the Security Industry Association (SIA).

The new flexible working rules that came into effect on the 30’th of June will make administrative tasks even more difficult and time consuming for small and medium enterprises, the Forum of Private Business has recently warned.

Over one in six (17%) of British employees who have called in sick, despite not being ill, did so because they were tired, while 12% needed time off due to work-related stress but didn’t want to admit it, figures obtained from recent Canada Life Group Insurance research suggest.

A senior care assistant who carried out sleepover shifts was entitled to receive the national minimum wage for all her nights shift hours, regardless of whether or not she was actually working during that time, the Employment Appeal Tribunal has recently decided.

Biometric access control is traditionally associated to the security, corporate and research environments, where making sure that only authorized members of staff are allowed to access specific areas is of utmost importance. Nevertheless, it seems that this high-security technology might be heading towards another important segment – luxury homes.

Tensor plc, the UK based, award winning market leader in the design, manufacture and installation of security, access control, attendance monitoring and energy management solutions, is proud to announce that it has been awarded the NACOSS Gold Certification by the National Security Inspectorate (