How Video Surveillance Improves Workplace Compliance, Safety, and Efficiency: Insights for IT Leaders
Businesses across all industries are facing modern safety concerns that require a fresh approach to security measures. In education, video surveillance plays a critical role in safeguarding students and staff, addressing risks such as unauthorized access, and ensuring compliance with safety protocols.
Similarly, healthcare focuses on workplace violence, and manufacturing tackles equipment safety and theft. These challenges highlight the importance of tailored strategies to ensure safety for everyone.
U.S. companies lose an estimated $50 billion annually due to employee theft. One effective solution to combat these losses is installing video surveillance systems. These systems provide 24/7 monitoring and deliver clear evidence for accountability in cases of theft, vandalism, or other workplace incidents.
However, not all security systems are created equal. A basic setup may fall short of addressing the complex security needs of diverse workplaces. To truly improve safety and compliance, businesses benefit from custom, end-to-end video surveillance systems with unified interfaces.
These advanced systems are particularly effective in challenging environments like construction sites, warehouses, and manufacturing facilities, where tailored solutions are critical to ensuring protection and operational efficiency.
Why Businesses Need Video Surveillance Now More Than Ever
Traditional surveillance systems lack features like real-time monitoring, high-resolution imaging, and access control. They’re outdated since every workplace now has different safety and operational priorities such as 24/7 monitoring, identifying perpetrators, or defending itself during lawsuits.
Advanced video surveillance solutions offer AI-powered tools such as SmartSearch for fast, targeted searches and role-based access control to monitor employees or external visitors, addressing various workplace challenges effectively.
These systems comply with industry regulations, support the needs of production facilities, address security risks like unauthorized access or theft, and simplify audits by securely storing footage from key areas.
With the growing importance of modern physical surveillance, here’s why your business needs video surveillance:
1. Prevent Theft or Fraud
The best way to combat theft is by installing real-time video surveillance that monitors 24/7 while following the compliance standards.
But since every business has different needs and areas to prioritize, expert IT teams like Inteleca offer customizable video surveillance systems to help reduce these risks by providing high-resolution imaging and AI-powered monitoring in key areas that need extra surveillance.
2. Legal Claims
Workplaces can sometimes face false accusations of misconduct or crimes. A video surveillance system helps protect against such claims by recording every moment, providing solid evidence to meet legal standards and defend against lawsuits or notices.
3. Employee Productivity
Video surveillance monitors work performance, attendance, and errors. This provides valuable data reference for employers to evaluate and analyze employee effectiveness and identify areas for improvement, especially in manufacturing.
For example, access control technology allows employers to assess the use of hazardous machinery or other equipment through surveillance, protecting employees from potential threats.
4. Prevent Harassment Cases
For employer and employee safety, video surveillance tracks all blindspots and real-time data to ensure everyone is working in a safe setting.
5. Access to High-Risk or Confidential Areas
Many organizations have high-risk or confidential areas restricted to authorized staff. Video surveillance monitors access points and can restrict access to unauthorized personnel, ensuring accountability in cases of unauthorized entry, theft, misuse, or misplaced items.
6. Parking Lot Safety
Surveillance in parking lots tracks the safety and security of employees, customers, and visitors. Cameras provide real-time monitoring, allowing security teams to respond quickly to suspicious behavior or incidents.
7. Locating Misplaced Goods
Employees often misplace goods due to large storage and product ranges in manufacturing facilities. Modern AI-powered technologies integrated with video surveillance wireless systems can accurately track and locate lost or misplaced items by analyzing footage based on a product screenshot. This saves a lot of time and resources spent on manual labor.
How Video Surveillance Transforms Workplace Operations
Modern video surveillance systems improve workplace security, streamline operations, and support compliance with regulatory standards.
Workplace Compliance
Every workplace is required to follow federal compliance laws, set by regulators like Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) or General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
These regulators focus on five key areas:
- Data protection
- Employee safety
- Sustainability,
- Financial reporting
- Equal labor practices.
Advanced systems provide real-time monitoring, securely store recorded footage, and track activities within the workplace to ensure adherence to safety protocols, prevent unauthorized access, and support fair treatment of all employees. Surveillance footage also provides documentation for audits, inspections, and legal defense.
Inteleca leverages the power of AI technologies to provide sustainable solutions to meet workplace compliance standards. We audit your facility and customize the video surveillance system according to your operational needs. Schedule a free consultation today.
Workplace Safety
One of the key benefits of video surveillance is that employees are less likely to steal or shoplift when monitored 24/7. These systems can secure large areas and prevent unauthorized access to manufacturing floors or data centers.
For example, Inteleca addresses workplace safety by integrating innovative IT solutions into your existing network infrastructure for long-distance video surveillance coordinated with access points, alarms, motion detectors, and key fobs, all from just one interface.
Operational Efficiency
With video surveillance, businesses can analyze:
- Employee productivity
- Security alerts
- On-site issues
- Disputes
- Legal claims
With optimized real-time insights, video surveillance with intelligent analytics apps allows businesses to make data-driven decisions that unlock efficiency among employees and employers. For example, security teams can focus more on areas that show more potential threats via surveillance.
While video surveillance offers numerous benefits, it’s not without its challenges. Many companies struggle to fully realize these advantages due to limitations in traditional surveillance systems.
Why Businesses Fail With Traditional Surveillance Systems
Most companies believe simply installing cameras can get the job done. But there’s no point in installing modern security cameras if you don’t have a customized pre-planned blueprint or infrastructure to identify vulnerable areas that need monitoring.
Following are some of the other challenges companies face when installing surveillance systems:
- Coverage Gaps and Blind Spots: Traditional surveillance systems often leave critical areas unmonitored. High-risk zones such as storage facilities, manufacturing floors, or parking lots, are more likely to have blindspots, making them vulnerable to operational risks and liability.
- Low-Quality Cameras: Cameras with poor resolution fail to capture clear footage in low-light settings or during nighttime, making it difficult to identify crimes.
- Compliance and Privacy Concerns: Many systems are at risk of data leaks or privacy violations because they don’t follow updated standards set by OSHA or GDPR.
- Technology Limitations: Most enterprises don’t bother updating their current monitoring systems, leading to high risks of crimes since old employees are highly likely to know surveillance loopholes.
- Solutions to Unique Business Needs: Existing security systems don’t follow every business’s needs, instead they are general to all industries.
While these challenges exist, Inteleca’s Physical Surveillance solutions are customized to follow workplace compliance and safety and improve operational efficiency.
How Inteleca Solves Surveillance Limitations
Inteleca adopts a user-centric approach by providing comprehensive video solutions that easily integrate with the existing networks for advanced security and surveillance.
From small businesses to large enterprises, our in-house team works directly with our clients to provide customized surveillance solutions in partnership with innovative partners like Axis Communications. These solutions include high-resolution cameras, cloud management software, AI-powered analytics, and smart monitoring systems.
One example is the AXIS Camera Station Secure Entry, which integrates video surveillance with access control through a single interface. This system enhances security and ensures compliance with safety and cybersecurity requirements.
Inteleca also offers specialized features such as license plate recognition, perimeter security, and face recognition to address challenges like managing access points and tracking activity.
To keep systems running smoothly, Inteleca provides regular audits, updates, and maintenance, ensuring your surveillance infrastructure stays reliable and compliant with changing requirements.
Case Study: A Global Manufacturer’s Success With Inteleca’s Solutions
The Challenge
A manufacturing plant with 600 employees and 24/7 production had around 140 security cameras installed across its facility and surrounding areas but was still facing challenges like theft crimes, violent fights, and misplaced goods.
The Solution
Inteleca along with Axis Communications did a detailed audit of the manufacturing plant to see where the security cameras were located, potential blindspots, and other existing technological limitations.
Our team of IT experts researched the best outdoor video surveillance system that covered the facility, parking lot, corridors, and other important surrounding areas. We developed a plan that leveraged AI technology with network integration to coordinate all points across the manufacturing plant.
The Impact
The manufacturing plant went through a complete transformation with the following results:
- SmartSearch AI technology helped locate $200K worth of misplaced goods from the inventory, which would’ve taken weeks to complete.
- They determined any potential threats, like violent fights or car overspeeding by installing new high-resolution cameras across the facility, corridors, and parking lot.
- The integrated systems use AI to coordinate across different surveillance devices such as motion detectors, alarms, or access doors within the facility.
- The company was able to track every employee’s movements to help improve work efficiency and accountability.
Conclusion
Video surveillance not only improves employee productivity but also reduces manual labor costs of managing inventory, and combats theft or harassment crimes.
Inteleca takes workplace safety to the next level by integrating video surveillance systems into your existing network infrastructure powered by AI and modern technologies for a comprehensive security solution. We collaborate with innovative partners like Axis Communications for the best equipment and cloud interface.
Let Inteleca’s experts evaluate your workplace structure and hardware needs so we can customize a video surveillance system that meets your budget.
Contact us to get your custom IT solution for surveillance.
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