About Certified Safes Ireland™

Qualified expert advice is critical

Certified Safes Ireland™ offers private clients, businesses, and state bodies the very best solutions for keeping jewellery, watch collections, cash, precious metals, documents and physical data devices secure, offering expertly installed solutions backed by accredited European certification of burglary and fire resistance, as well as alarm and electronics integration features across many of our secure storage products. 

Accredited European certification is the basis for all insurance rate recommendations for safes in Europe, the most important factor in maintaining adequate insurance cover for a safe long term and provides a legal proof of standard under European law. 

Regardless the size of the requirement, Certified Safes Ireland™ addresses client needs with expertly installed European accredited certified solutions, providing long term peace of mind and a verifiable legal proof of standard, backed by accredited documentation.

 How is this different?

Unfortunately, major safe supply companies, manufacturers, and local suppliers in the safe and secure storage sector, continue to fudge and misrepresent issues related to accredited certification of burglary resistance, fire testing and installation standards, to sell sub-standard or even dangerous products, which are more profitable for them, but can lead to disaster long-term for their clients.

Misrepresentation can take many forms, some of the most frequent being:

• Claiming non-existent or inflated insurance rates for safes and cabinets.
• Selling “Secure Cabinets EN14450” while misrepresenting them as “Safes”.
• Selling safes with unaccredited certification marks which have no legal proof of standard.
• Selling "fire-proof” safes or cabinets that have no proven fire resistance whatsoever.
• Selling pre-2005 second-hand safes, many of which should be presumed to contain asbestos.

Certified Safes Ireland™ would like to see a secure storage industry that works safely to the benefit of the general public, businesses, states bodies and insurers, providing long term peace of mind while keeping valuables and data, safe, secure, and readily accessible to authorised access.

 For free, confidential expert advice call: +353 1 7076011

Certified Safes Ireland™ in-house advisor on keeping jewellery, watch collections, goods, cash and data, safe, secure, yet readily accessible, is Alan Donohoe Redd.

Alan Donohoe Redd is an official expert member of the European Committee for Standardisation (CEN) Working Group responsible for writing European Standards for safes, strongrooms (vaults), secure cabinets and physical data protection for the European Union and an expert member of U.S. Underwriters Laboratories (UL) Standards Technical Panel TC72 covering standards for fire resistance of record protection devices. Alan is also a registered NATO supplier and a longstanding member of the European Security Systems Association. Alan has a vast range of experience spanning almost 40 years encompassing installation of safes, strongrooms, physical data protection, CCTV, alarms, access control, secure storage control systems and Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility (SCIF) specification, design and installation.

An expert on standards and fraud issues related to secure storage in Europe, the UK and the use of asbestos in European safe and cabinet manufacturing, Alan has had articles related to these subjects published by The Law Society Gazette and Irish Broker Magazine, has forced retractions of multiple false claims related to secure storage offerings to the public and has been pivotal in having misleading standards and practices recognised and withdrawn in Ireland, the UK and at a European level.

Alan's seminars on safes, strongrooms and high net worth secure storage have been part of Continuing Professional Development for underwriters and insurers having been awarded CPD points by the Insurance Institute of Ireland and the Chartered Insurance Institute (UK). Additionally, Alan has provided advice and seminars to An Garda Síochána (Irish Police) and the Danish Police on European Standards for the secure storage of firearms and dangerous drugs.

 Alan's expertise has been relied on by:

N.A.T.O. Europe, The U.S. Air Force (Europe), The National Treasury Management Agency (Ireland), The Department Of Communications (NCSC Cyber Security) (Ireland), The Revenue Commissioners, Electricity Supply Board (Cyber Security) (Ireland), The Danish Defence Forces (Afghanistan), The Danish Police, PayPal (Worldwide), The European Commission, An Garda Síochána, Grant Thornton, The Insurance Institute of Ireland, The Royal College Of Surgeons, BFC Bank, Interxion Data Centres, The Private Security Authority, Isle of Man Gold Bullion, Brown Thomas, Bvlgari, Boodles, Druids Glen, The Shelbourne Hotel, and many others ....

 Office address
(Callers by appointment only)

Implemented Certified Security Ltd™ T/A Certified Safes Ireland™
Lis Cara Business Centre
51/52 Fitzwilliam Square West
Dublin 2
D02 X504
Ireland

Bank details

Allied Irish Bank, 61 South Richmond Street, Dublin 2. Ireland.
Swift Code/BIC: AIBKIE2D
IBAN: IE37 AIBK 931160 12419091

Revenue / CRO

VAT: IE 9668815E
Company Reg: 445429

NATO cage code:

SGVX5

Principle Staff

Alan Donohoe Redd

HNW, GSA/NATO specifications, safe, strongroom, physical data security and SCIF standards 

Certified Safes Ireland™ director Alan Donohoe Redd is a member of the European CEN263 Working Group responsible for writing European Standards for safes, strongrooms (vaults), secure cabinets and physical data protection for the European Union. A registered NATO supplier and a longstanding member of the European Security Systems Association, Alan has a vast range of experience spanning almost 40 years and encompassing installation of safes, strongrooms, physical data protection, CCTV, alarms, access control, secure storage control systems and Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility (SCIF) specification, design, and installation. 

Elena Gallotta

HNW, GSA/NATO product distribution administrator & global client support

Elena Gallotta is our HNW, government and GSA / NATO product distribution administrator, overseeing HNW client care, U.S. federal, restricted product distribution and global client support. In 2018 Elena was responsible for an award winning adaptation of S&G A-series technology for GDPR applications, a system later adopted by PayPal. Elena has a background in fine art, ballet, and legal studies, has exhibited at Venice Biennale, Vogue Italia, and has had a piece acquired by the Saatchi Gallery in London. Educated in Italy, she studied law and jurisprudence before moving to Ireland in 2005.

Keith Cribben

Technical, service & install expert (safes / locks)

Keith Cribben is Certified Safes Ireland™ installation, service and technical expert for safes, data safes, strongrooms, and related certified locking systems. Like all Certified Safes Ireland™ partners Keith has high level security clearance for both government and NATO work as well as Garda Siochana vetting. Keith is a licensed locksmith with vast industry experience both in Ireland and other European countries.