When choosing a security booth, consider the features you need to keep your staff comfortable, productive, and safe. The wrong booth can mean costly replacements, higher staff turnover, less effective security, and process failures. The right features, on the other hand, provide the space your security personnel need to do their best work. The right booth can even help you save money by reducing replacement costs and keeping your site more secure.
What Features Should a Security Booth Have?
We've put together this quality guard booth checklist to help you sort out the different features to look for:
Structural integrity: Your booth needs to handle long-term use. At Guardian Booth, our standard booths feature a double layer of sturdy, insulated aluminum panels. We also offer ballistic-resistant booths and bulletproof glass as optional features if your booth will be in a high-risk area. Our booths are prefabricated, ensuring high-quality assembly and reducing the risk of defects.
Climate control: If your security kiosk will be outdoors, climate control is an essential guard shack feature to keep your staff comfortable. At Guardian Booth, baseboard heating and air conditioning can be added to any size booth.
Visibility design: To help visitors know where to check in or to highlight a secured area, your security shack may need signage. Clear signage, LED lights over the booth, and high-visibility colors can help.
Communication infrastructure: Phone lines allow your security staff to call for additional help or report suspicious activity, while internet connections support monitoring software and hardware.
Ergonomic workspace features: Ergonomic seating, good lighting, plenty of space, and bulletin rails make it easy for your employees to work. Guardian Booth offers ergonomic layouts, different-sized booths for different needs, monitor arms, keyboard trays, height-adjustable desk surfaces, and other features.
Safety systems: Adding gun ports and secure lockers keeps your staff safer. LED lights and 360-degree mirrors provide high visibility, while mirrored windows keep your staff hidden inside the booth, securing their safety.
Your Essential Security Booth Features
When choosing your security kiosk, always consider your environment and risk assessment. In outdoor and remote locations, consider available utilities. You may need solar panels in some places to ensure your staff have uninterrupted access to communication.
Any risk assessments of your workplace can also help you choose the most important features by helping you understand the hazards your team faces. If the most significant risk is theft, for example, floodlights and motion sensors can illuminate would-be thieves and reduce theft.
Find Your Security Booth Must-Have Features
At Guardian Booth, many security features, such as outdoor-ready, sturdy construction, are standard. Our highly customizable solutions also let you add the features you need.
Look at our gallery for inspiration and browse our case studies to see how other companies have used our prefabricated booths. You'll see how you can combine different features to create security booths. You can also reach out at any time to speak with a specialist about your needs.
