AGCO compliant.
Fully protected.

“We passed our last inspection. Why would I touch any of this?”

If your coverage matches your own documented plan, your retention is intact, and you can export footage on request, then you are in good shape and we would tell you to leave the system alone. Where we are usually useful is a few hours of review rather than a replacement — confirming the cameras still cover what the coverage map says, that nothing has been repositioned during a renovation, and that the retention is genuinely holding the full window. That is a small piece of work and it is priced like one.

“Our installer told us we were compliant. I have nothing in writing that says so.”

That is the common position, and it is the thing worth fixing first. What we produce is a written record: a camera coverage diagram over your floor plan, the model and position of each unit, the configured retention, and the monitoring arrangement. We are documenting what is installed and confirming it against the standards your licence is held to — we are not the regulator and we do not speak for them, which is exactly why the document is written so you can hand it to someone who does.

“If someone asks for footage from three weeks ago, I need it the same day.”

Then the retention and the export path both need testing, not assuming. We confirm the recorder is actually holding the full window rather than overwriting early because a channel was added later, and we walk your manager through pulling and exporting a clip so the first time it is done is not under pressure. Cloud retention is worth discussing for the same reason a recorder in the back room is a single point of failure in a break-in.

“If a camera goes down, would I even know?”

On a lot of sites, no — the failure is discovered when someone goes looking for footage. Health monitoring on each channel means an offline camera raises an alert to you and to us rather than sitting dark for a fortnight. In this sector that is not a convenience feature. A gap in coverage you did not know about is materially worse than one you found and logged.

“The real risk is staff, and I cannot raise it with anyone without proof.”

That is why the access record matters as much as the camera. Controlled access on the back room, the vault and the receiving door turns every entry into a logged event with a name and a time, and the footage sits against it. That combination is what turns a variance you cannot discuss into a specific date and a specific person. We build the logging and the coverage; how you handle the conversation afterwards is your call and usually your employment counsel's.

“We are a producer, not a store. Half of what you have written here is about retail.”

It is, and a production site is a different design. The pressure points are receiving, the vault or storage room, packaging and destruction areas, the corridors between them, and visitor and contractor access — not a sales floor. If your site is a production facility, tell us at the first conversation so the walk-through follows your own site plan and your own written procedures rather than a retail template.