[Jewelry making - Article 00071] - Re: [Orchid] Safe Advice

[Daniel Spirer]

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Roseanne,

    As I stated in my posting what kind of safe you have or need depends
    a lot on how much you are protecting. You may be fine with your safe
    for the dollar value you are protecting. Most gun safes are not UL
    rated. If yours is then that's fine for you, particularly if the
    rating is enough given the coverage you are looking for.  I'm sure
    that showing a safe that's had the door peeled back is part of the
    marketing of a safe, but showing how much better your jewelry is than
    someone else's is part of marketing your product as well. 

    All security however is dependent on a series of often redundant
    systems designed to make the criminal look elsewhere for an easier
    target. Having a secure safe is only part of the solution to
    protecting your inventory. Having the proper alarm system, keeping
    cell phones available at all times, being aware of your surroundings,
    installing security cameras, etc. are all part of protecting your
    inventory, and if you are handling it, customer's goods.  Having
    multiple systems backing up each other is a critical part of it as
    well.  I'm sure the level of security I pay for is far higher than
    what many of you need, based on the size of my inventory and my
    location in an urban area.  However I can assure you that I sleep far
    better at night knowing that by the time some guy got a burning bar
    to bore a 1 inch hole through the side of my safe, my alarm system
    would have been set off long ago(even if they cut the phone lines
    because that system is redundant too), the police department would
    have been notified (and they can see the safe from the street), and I
    would be watching (and recording) what the guy was actually doing
    from my home computer and reporting it directly to the police.  On
    top of that any serious criminals (anyone actually capable of getting
    into my safe) would realize that given all of the protection, it
    simply wouldn't be worth it to make the attempt, given that my
    inventory isn't really that large, relative to the risk (if my
    inventory was larger, you can believe that I would have even more
    systems in place).  They would simply move on to the next guy who
    leaves half his jewelry out at night, uses a small or easily broken
    into safe, and who turned off his alarm after a few false alarms went
    through. 

    And incidentally, the reason I pay less than some people for the
    insurance coverage I need is because I do have all of these
    redundant systems in place. The statistics show that proper safes
    and alarm systems reduce losses. Any serious jewelry insurer (like
    Jewelers Mutual) recognizes and rewards this.

Daniel R. Spirer, G.G.
Daniel R. Spirer Jewelers, LLC
1780 Massachusetts Ave.
Cambridge, MA 02140
daniel AT spirerjewelers.com
www.spirerjewelers.com

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