ERA has launched Lockdown, the UK’s first emergency barricade device designed to provide high performance security in the event of a threatening situation.
ERA’s Lockdown product has been designed for use in commercial/community settings with high footfall from schools and hospitals to travel hubs, offices, workplaces, hotels, shopping centres and leisure/ tourist attractions including theatres, cinemas, pubs, bars and restaurants.
Lockdown is described as simple and easy to fit with no fumbling with keys or padlocks and makes doors inaccessible to intruders, creating a safe hiding place for civilians in the event of an attack.
It is available for both single and double doors, whether inward or outward swinging and can be fitted with or without traditional locks.
Group Marketing and Innovation Director, Will Butler, said: “Sadly, we now live in a world where terror isn’t a distant menace, it can strike at the heart of our community. Public and businesses are being advised by the government and associated bodies to be extra vigilant and pre-plan how they might react if caught up in a threatening situation. The over-arching advice being to RUN, HIDE, TELL and when hiding, barricade yourself in.
“For example, we are seeing dummy-runs in schools where pupils are being taught what to do in certain scenarios and the National Counter Terrorism Security Office (NaCTSO) has updated safety advice for employees suggesting that they develop dynamic lockdown procedures and use secondary devices for ‘invacuation’ rather than evacuation to barricade people in a room safely and keep the external threat out.
“Here at ERA, community safety is at the heart of our products, so we are very pleased by the overwhelmingly positive response received at the Security and Counter Terror Expo at London’s Olympia earlier this year.”
Tested to PAS24 impact resistance standards, single door Lockdown fits doors from 650mm-1100mm width, weighs 4kg and takes seconds to fit. The double door option fits doors up to 60mm, weighs 1.6kg and will take seconds to create a secure barricade to outside entry.
