Industrial Security Concept: Protective Alarms, Lighting, Locks, and Cabinets

Vocabulary-style flashcards covering protective alarms, bank security devices, lighting types, lock and key classifications, and high-security storage containers.

Protective Alarms

An aural or visual signal given by the enunciator to a security guard when an intruder actuates a device in a protected area.

Sensor or Trigger Device

A component of an alarm system that emits the aural or visual signal or both when triggered.

Transmission Line

A circuit which transmits a message from the sensor to the signaling apparatus.

Enunciator/Annunciator

The part of an alarm system responsible for providing the aural or visual signal, such as a blinking light or a loud sound.

Metallic foil or wire

Strips of electrically charged tinfoil or wire used on windows or glass surfaces; the alarm activates when the circuit is broken by movement.

Audio Detection Device

A system using supersensitive microphones or speaker sensors installed in walls, ceilings, and floors to detect sound caused by attempted forced entry.

Vibration Detection Device

Sensors attached to walls, ceilings, or floors that detect any vibration caused by attempted forced entry.

Laser Beam Alarm

A system where a laser emitter floods an area with a beam; an alarm is activated when the beam is disturbed by a physical object.

Foot Button/Foot rail activator

A bank alarm device placed on the floor allowing tellers to activate the alarm with their foot while keeping their hands in view.

Bill traps or currency activation Device

Devices placed in a teller's cash drawer that activate an alarm when currency is removed.

Knee or thigh buttons

Alarm activators installed inside a desk or teller station that are operated by knee or thigh pressure, typically for personnel in seated positions.

Double Squeeze buttons

An alarm device requiring pressure on both sides to activate, which reduces the probability of accidental alarms.

Protective Lighting

The most cost-effective deterrent to crime that provides illumination during darkness and creates a psychological deterrent to intruders.

Continuous lighting

Also known as stationary luminary, it is the most familiar type of outdoor security lighting.

Standby lighting

A system designed for reserve use or to supplement continuous systems, turned on manually or physically as needed.

Emergency lighting

A lighting system used during power failures or other emergencies when other systems are inoperative.

Movable or Portable lighting

Manually operated searchlights or floodlights that are hand-carried and used in special locations for short periods.

Lock

A mechanical, electrical, hydraulic, or electronic device designed to prevent entry into a building, room, container, or hiding place.

Key

A metal bar with notches or grooves that, when inserted and turned, operates a lock's mechanism; an instrument for locking and unlocking.

Padlock

A portable and detachable lock, described as the cheapest security measure.

Disc Tumbler Lock

A type of lock designed for the automobile industry and commonly used in car doors today.

Combination Lock

A type of padlock featuring three dials that must be aligned in the proper order to open.

Code-Operated Lock

Combination-type locks opened by pressing a series of numbered buttons in the proper sequence without using a key.

Card Operated Lock

A lock operated by coded cards that may be notched, embossed, or contain embedded copper patterns.

Electromagnetic Locks

Electrical units that hold a door closed using magnetism.

Grand Master Key

A key that opens everything in a system involving two or more master key groups.

Master Key

A special key capable of opening a series of locks or all locks when two or more sub master systems exist.

Sub Master Key

A key that opens all locks within a particular area or grouping in a given facility.

Change Key

A key for a single lock within a master keyed system.

Peterman

An English term used to describe a lock picker.

Safe

A metallic container for safeguarding small items that must weigh at least $750\,pounds$ and have a body at least $1\,inch$ thick.

Vault

A fire and burglar resistant container part of a building structure, with doors at least $6\,inches$ thick and walls at least $12\,inches$ thick.

File Room

A cubicle built lighter than a vault, no more than $12\,feet$ high, with a watertight door and fire proofing for at least $1\,hour$.