Restricted Master Key Systems – Mastering Your Multiple Locks with the Master Key System

Let’s say you’re the boss, the chief, the head honcho in charge of a multiple-department company. This company in question deals in valuable materials, or perhaps in Intellectual Properties that you don’t want leaked.

One way or another, you like and trust all of your employees (except you’re pretty sure Ralph in accounting is the one stealing toilet paper), but for security, safety, proprietary, or insurance reasons you want to restrict the number of those employees who can access certain rooms in your work-site.

One way to go about this is to have different locks at each access point. Unfortunately this requires you to hand out a wide variety of keys, and for the people who need access to get further into more secured areas, it means they’ll have to carry more than one key. The more keys out there, the more keys you have to keep track of, and the more chances for one (or more) to get lost, stolen, or copied.

Plus it’s a nightmare for the big boss, you, who has to walk around all day, getting from accounting to R & D to the cafeteria and back again. Your one arm carrying that keychain will grow much bigger than the other arm and people will look at you funny.

A second option is to have killer robots with lasers standing at all the different access points that recognize who can and can’t get through this or that particular door. Cool, but expensive, and what happens if someone returns from vacation with a brand new beard?

The third option is to integrate a Master Key System into your security system. (This is the one we like the most. Although… robots!)

With the Master Key system each employee (including you!) is responsible for only one key.

Each of these individual keys is set to open only the locks which you designate. So while Ralph from accounting can only get through the main entrance and into the accounting area (and not the bathroom supplies closet!) you will be able to get into every single door in your workplace.

This can also be of benefit in your home if perhaps you don’t want your children, who have keys to the front door, getting into the garage where you keep dangerous chemicals or tools or the vintage Mustang that you don’t want them getting their grubby little fingerprints all over.

Landlords and Property Managers use Master Key Systems to get in and out of all the apartments in their charge to make repairs, but restrict access so you can only open your own apartment’s door.

Here’s a couple of added bonuses to using the Master Key System:

• It’s flexible. As your business grows and more secure areas are added, we can re-designate particular existing keys to allow or restrict access.

• We use security blanks that are registered and stay with us, and copies can only be made with your approval.

• With the proper planning of your system (knowing which groups should have access to which locks) East Sydney Locksmiths can cut your keys on the same day.

• The Master Key System eliminates the need to keep a bunch of spare keys at the front desk (one of the first places burglars will look).

Which leads us to what you have to do to put your Master Key System in place.

1. Plan your groups. Accounting and file management can have access to rooms X, Y, and Z, while the research department should have access to rooms A and B. This can be mixed and matched between departments. For example, a cleaning staff might need access to A, X, Y, and Z, but will need to be kept out of room B at all times.

2. Call us. It’s that simple!

East Sydney Locksmiths – we’re going to help you master your multiple lock system.