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How to renew SIA licence? A guide for managers and staff
How to ensure your staff SIA licences are up to date? This article will guide you through the renewal process and help you set up reminders for future renewals.
The Best Lone Worker Safety Devices for Staffing Companies
How does your staffing company ensure that lone workers are safe and protected at all times? Read our guide for a comprehensive overview of lone worker safety.
What Guard Tour Systems Suit Your Security Company the Best?
How to choose the right security guard tour technology to grow your business? What are the pros and cons of each, and what to look out for?
Scale Your Operations with Security Guards' App
Automating staff management with the right software solution while providing security guards with a powerful app designed to make their work easier and create custom reports for your clients will provide a competitive edge.
Prepare your security company for the holiday season
The holiday season is almost here. This article will give you four tips to prepare your security firm for the demands of the last quarter of the year.
Digital transformation in the security industry
Digital transformation is using technology to create or improve how companies operate, their products and services. Learn how to apply this to all areas of your business.
Security guard safety: 10 tips to keep your guards safe
Keeping your security staff safe while on duty may not be as obvious as it seems. Learn how to protect them with 10 simple tips.
PARiM becomes a member of the United Kingdom Crowd Management Association (UKCMA)
PARiM is now a member of the United Kingdom Crowd Management Association (UKCMA)
Mindfulness for Security Operatives
Mindfulness was a subject that I scoffed at when I was introduced to it many years ago. I like many of you had visions of Buddhist monks and endless hours of chanting. I was first introduced to mindfulness by an old martial arts instructor about 18 years ago.
How to start a security company in the UK: how much it costs and what you need
This article will cover the steps necessary to start a security company, create a viable business plan and discuss other vital aspects to consider.
Free In-Depth ACS Accreditation Guide
Most security companies in the U.K aspire to achieve ACS Accreditation thereafter striving to improve their score year on year. At PARiM our team has focused on simplifying this process for our present as well as our new customers. Our work has resulted in an extensive 25-page free guide that we encourage you to download.
How to make meeting the ACS accreditation criteria for security companies easier
Looking in from the outside, the ACS Accreditation process seems like a useful and necessary scheme. Yet, having undergone many audits in my time, the whole audit process to check paperwork, numbers, systems and procedures can seem daunting and the preparation for it be quite time consuming. Currently there isn’t much way around the files and files of paper required to be prepared for checking, and let’s face it - there’s not many of us who diligently prepare all this sort of paperwork 100% as we go along!
If you are a worker in the security industry you may be able to obtain a tax refund
If you are a worker in the security industry you may be able to obtain a tax refund. This is because you are entitled to claim tax relief on certain costs of your employment that are deemed “wholly and necessarily” for the purposes of your employment. This basically means you can claim back for the cost of things that you needed to do your job.
Help to manage your security company more efficiently
If you are managing a security company you are probably offering manned guarding, cctv monitoring, training and key holding solutions. Therefore you have several distinct offerings to market, monitor and manage; at least a few staff who have different types of certificates, training needs and qualifications. All of these need monitoring or tracking on top of holidays and unauthorised absences! As well as dealin