Blue Collar Security and Access Systems for Industrial Manufacturing
The typical types of access control at industrial and manufacturing organizations are card access and video at the highest level, with tightly controlled time and attendance and visitor management.
Proprietary security departments at industrial and manufacturing enterprises were among the first to sprout up during the 1920s. Some say that, in additional to charcoal briquettes, Henry Ford invented industrial security – the “IS” in ASIS International – when he established his internal Psychological Department fearing in part that Black Hand American mafia members would kidnap his child, Edsel.
Black Hand tactics involved sending a letter to a victim threatening bodily harm, kidnapping, arson or murder. The letter demands a specified amount of money to be delivered to a specific place. Letters were often decorated with threatening symbols like a smoking gun, hangman’s noose, skull or knife dripping with blood or piercing a human heart, and were, in many instances, signed with a hand “held up in the universal gesture of warning.”