Certified Safes Ireland™ chief safe and strongroom technician, Keith Cribben, is a licensed locksmith with vast industry experience both in Ireland and other European countries. Keith, like all ICS Group partners has high level security clearance for both government and NATO work as well as Garda Siochana vetting.
Amateur safe technicians or locksmiths, inexperienced with safe and strongroom design, in particular anti-manipulation and counter drilling mechanisms, will often cause so much damage to a certified safe or strongroom’s barrier material as to render the unit ineffectual for secure storage voiding the unit’s original certification.
Mechanical safe and strongroom locks have always been prone to failure for a wide variety of reasons. Wear and tear, keys broken or jammed, levers or combination wheels jammed, a mechanical time lock movement stopped, dampness leading to corrosion, dirt, lack of maintenance or key loss are just some of the obvious issues that can lock-out a mechanically locked safe or strongroom at the most inconvenient time imaginable. Certified Safes Ireland™ can open the majority of mechanically locked safes and strongrooms through non-destructive lock or combination manipulation (NDE - Non-Destructive Entry).
Certified digital locks, while a lot more dependable, can still malfunction over time due to lack of maintenance, code loss, water damage or on very rare occasions, a manufacturing fault. As most electronic locks have anti-manipulation counter measures, targeted drilling is usually the only recourse. The European safe and strongroom standard EN1143-1 has strict rules when it comes to how an emergency safe or strongroom opening is to be performed, so complete knowledge of this standard as well as the most up to date emergency safe and strongroom opening methods is required to affect an EN1143-1 compliant emergency safe or strongroom opening. Certified Safes Ireland™ provide an expert emergency safe and strongroom opening service that protects both the integrity of your certified secure storage facility and your long-term security and insurance compliance interests. If your safe or strongroom has to be drilled open, it will be done so in a manner that allows it to be repaired to its certified standard. All work will be completed in strict compliance with best practice for emergency secure storage access.
- Emergency safe opening - NDE (non-destructive entry/covert entry of mechanical safe and vault locks)
- EN1143-1 compliant opening for digital safe and vault locks
- Installation and servicing of safes and data cabinets
- Safe moving/relocation
- Disposal of safes, cabinets and vaults including asbestos contaminated secure storage disposal
- ATM servicing and maintenance
- Fireproof cabinet servicing and maintenance
- Servicing and maintenance of (POS) till units, time lock, time delay units, drop units etc.
- Master key security cylinders
- Secure inter-locking for high-risk security areas **
- Door closers & hinges
- Push bar exit fittings
- Repairs & maintenance of existing locks and hardware on steel, wood, or aluminium doors
- Design & install bespoke locking systems
- General steel works including welding locks/hinges on steel doors and security equipment
- Mas Hamilton
- ASSA/Abloy
- KABA
- Sargent & Greenleaf
- Wittkopp
- LaGuard
- Kwikset
- Schlage
- Baldwin
- Yale
- Corbin Russwin
- Mul-T-Lock
- RR Brink
- Medeco
- Lowe And Fletcher
and many more ...
Certified Safes Ireland™ in-house advisor on keeping jewellery, watch collections, goods, cash, documents and data, safe, secure, yet readily accessible, is Alan Donohoe Redd.
Alan Donohoe Redd is a 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 a member of the 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).
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), PayPal (Worldwide), 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 ....