Working alone safety advice

[JessIcaLouiseCatherine]

Hello all,
I am currently in the middle of moving my business from a rented room in a hairdressers to my own small high street salon. Will be just me working there. I need some tips or ideas on keeping myself safe. I am a young lady and I'm worries about getting robbed or worse! I also work late hours some days when it's dark.

So far I am going to keep the door locked behind me and let people in as I see them. Or maybe keep a buzzer at the desk so they don't realise there being locked out! (Just press button then I see them) but if I see a man at the door I'm not going to not let him in cos he's a man but you don't know what they could do unless it happends.

There will be a privet beauty room out back for privet treatments. I was going to do appointments only and not do treatments on men, unless its recommendations from my other clients/friends.

I can give the garage up the road a panic buzzer so if anything happends they can run down but they are only open till 5 and I'm open till 8 some days.

Any ideas would be great. Thank you

 

[CFBS]

Yes, buzzer system worked well for my salon when no one was on reception or working alone at night. I could speak to them over the handset to check it was who I was expecting and then press a button to release the lock on the door .

Personally I never took men unless there was another member of staff in the salon.

 

[JessIcaLouiseCatherine]

Yes, buzzer system worked well for my salon when no one was on reception or working alone at night. I could speak to them over the handset to check it was who I was expecting and then press a button to release the lock on the door .

Personally I never took men unless there was another member of staff in the salon.

What did you do if you was alone and a man wanted to come in to book a treatment or buy a voucher? Just hope he's a nice guy? Haha worried they act nice then come in. (My mum had a man come in with a knife when she was at a salon so wanting to take care)

 

[daydreams01]

I'm on my own quite a lot in my salon and it's never been a problem. I keep my back door locked and the other shops around are really nice and would help if they saw anything dodgy going on. There is a jewellers next door and they have an instant line to the police so I have their number on my desk! We have a community police officer who patrols daily. There are often kids hanging around the back and he moves them on but they have never caused any trouble for me. I have a lock on my till but most people pay by card so rarely lots of cash in there. I suppose it depends on the area but just trust your instincts and if you feel better with door locked then go with that.