The importance of panic bars in commercial properties
Panic bars offer local business customers a safer way to exit a building or commercial location. This benefit makes them invaluable to you as a business owner or operator for many reasons. Not only can panic bars cut down on accidents, injuries and even deaths at your business, they also can help with lower insurance costs as less claims are filed when fewer accidents occur. Installing panic bars at your business is a good idea and it may even be mandatory in some locales.
What exactly are panic bars?
Panic bars are also knowing as exit bars, push bars, panic devices, and crash bars. Here at Georgetown TX Locksmith we install panic bars all over town as local firms know of their advantageous uses and benefits. You don’t have to live here in Georgetown, TX to benefit from panic bars; just call your favorite commercial locksmith in your metro area and they should be able to get you further information as well as quality installation services. Panic bars are those metal bars installed horizontally across back doors. They are spring loaded so that only a push or lean against them opens the door without having to stop and unlock the door, turn the knob and then open the door while possibly fighting pedestrian traffic coming the other way (incoming). With a panic bar, you simply lean against the bar, it automatically unlocks, opens and since they are almost always one way, you simply exit and never worry about fighting incoming foot traffic. If you’ll notice, there are virtually no door knobs or locks on the outside of the panic bar installed door. This is for a reason; no need to bottleneck the outgoing foot traffic; especially during a panic or other inside emergency like a fire, armed intruder or bomb threat where orderly and calm exit traffic is essential.
Panic bars are everywhere you look
Remember the last time you bought a new car? You suddenly started noticing the exact make and model almost everywhere you turned, didn’t you? Now, you’ll do the exact same thing with panic devices. You’ll notice them every time you use one. You can find them in big cities and small ones; in retail, entertainment, food service, hospitability, education and even government buildings. Wherever crowd flow is a factor, you’ll see panic bars installed and used. More specifically you’ll see panic bars installed in hotels, schools, restaurants, movie theaters, retirement homes, hospitals, medical clinics, fast food locations, car dealerships, shopping malls, retail stores, convenience stores, laundromats, grocery outlets, gas stations, and hundreds of other locations.
