5 Ways Security Window Film Can Protect Your Business

3M™ Safety and Security Window Films, Safety Series is a wonderful series of interior transparent films designed to protect occupants from glass breakages and provide an economic and efficient way of upgrading glazing to meet building safety standards.

Whether you’re in a big city or a small town, thieves can victimize your business and go after easy smash-and-grab targets — making your glass doors and ground floor windows vulnerable. 3M™ Safety & Security Window Films make it more difficult to get through your windows, helping to reduce your losses during smash-and-grab crimes.

1. Help protect people and property
2. Keep the welcoming appearance of your property without adding bars or other physical barriers
3. Thicker adhesive helps hold broken glass together, hindering break-and-enter crimes
4. Tear-resistance offers excellent performance over standard films
5. Help protect against broken glass shards and unlawful entry

Add security to interior glass doors and windows with 3M™ Safety and Security Window Films, Safety Series. Our transparent window films help to protect tenants from glass breakages and provides an economic and efficient way of upgrading glazing to meet building safety standards. They also offer superior protection against vandalism on glass, such as scratching and graffiti attacks. By blocking 99% of ultraviolet (UV) rays, which is equivalent to 1000 sun protection factor (SPF), these films protect people from harmful UV rays, and furniture and interiors from fading. Overall performance of 3M™ Safety & Security Window Films can be improved by using 3M™ Impact Protection Attachment Systems. They can be used for internal applications only.

• Reduces hazards from shattered glass during natural disasters, vandalism and other impacts
• Efficient solution to upgrade glazing to meet building safety standards
• Blocks 99% of harmful ultraviolet (UV) rays that cause fading, helping to extend the life of furnishings
• Increases security and provides added protection against smash and grab burglaries
• Resistant to graffiti, vandalism, scratches and abrasions
• Combine with 3M™ Impact Protection Attachment Systems for additional safety and security

Suggested Applications

• Interior surfaces of windows in commercial, public and residential buildings

A break-in can prove to be a severe blow to any business and has the potential to put a significant strain on operations and profit. It is therefore crucial to take preventative action by installing effective security equipment.

There can be no doubt that glazing of any type can be a potential weakness when it comes to the security of a property.

Deter & Delay Potential Thieves

Available in a variety of different thicknesses, our security window films can delay and deter opportunistic thieves by increasing the impact resistance of your windows.

Our range of security film can be installed both inside and outside of almost any building and offers the perfect complement to other window films which offer effective protection against glare, fading and privacy issues amongst others.

Thankfully, the days of unattractive ‘window grilles’ are now long behind us by applying specialist security window film can help to provide an almost invisible level of security along with all-important peace of mind.

Not only can the application of window film help you to sleep easier at night, for business owners it can also help you to comply with existing legislation.

Are You Complying With Regulations?

In 1992, Health, Safety and Welfare Regulation 14 came into force, requiring that “every window or other transparent or translucent surface in a wall, partition, door or gate should, where necessary for reasons of health or safety, be of a safety material or be protected against breakage; and be appropriately marked or incorporate features to make it apparent.”

This regulation applies to a wide range of workplaces including offices, shops, schools, hospitals, hotels and places of entertainment.