Industrial and manufacturing sites protect valuable assets, intellectual property, hazardous materials, and operational continuity across large perimeters with constant vehicle, shipping, and contractor traffic.
Wittner Security Consultants provides independent physical security assessment and design for Northern California plants, warehouses, distribution centers, and industrial campuses.
Unlike water or healthcare, most industrial sites are not shaped by one dominant security regulation. The drivers are commercial: theft and shrink, business interruption, insurer requirements, and customer or supply chain security expectations. That makes the return on an independent assessment concrete and measurable, because the losses it prevents show up directly on the operating statement.
An independent consultant matters here for the same reason it does everywhere: the recommendation is sized to your actual loss exposure, not to the size of a system someone wants to sell you.
Paul's four decades in the field include work with organizations such as HP and Exxon. That kind of first-hand exposure to how these environments actually operate is what separates advice grounded in the field from advice grounded in a brochure.
Perimeter security is a layered problem: deterrence and delay at the fence line, detection sized so it warns without drowning you in false alarms, assessment through video or patrol to verify what tripped it, and a response plan for when something real happens. The right layering depends on the site's size, what it protects, and how fast a response can realistically arrive.
Yes, and it is one of the most measurable reasons to bring in an independent assessment. Most industrial loss concentrates at predictable points: docks, yards, and access transitions. The work identifies where product actually disappears and specifies the controls, procedures, and coverage that close those gaps, with recommendations sized to the loss rather than to a vendor's catalogue.
Yes. The constant flow of non-employees is one of the harder industrial access problems. The work covers how contractors and vendors are credentialed, escorted or zoned, and tracked, so that necessary access does not quietly become an open door, without grinding legitimate operations to a halt.
Tell Paul about the site and what prompted the call. He will tell you honestly what the work involves and whether he is the right person for it.