LPS 1175 (‘Requirements and testing procedures for the LPCB approval and listing of intruder resistant building components, strongpoints, security enclosures and free-standing barriers’) specifies eight levels of security, with resist times against attack from one minute (opportunist attack) up to 20 minutes (highly professional targeted attack).
Paul Griffin, the manufacturing manager at HERAS, said: “We’re pleased to see that all the months of hard work have come to fruition, and we’re now approved to Security Rating 1 of the LPS 1175 standard. It was a pleasure to work closely with the Loss Prevention Certification Board (LPCB), and I found all their help to be invaluable.”
Richard Flint, the LPCB’s physical security certification scheme manager, commented: “The LPCB is delighted to issue this approval. It not only reflects Heras’ ability to engineer the most secure railing system tested to date, but also demonstrates the versatility of LPS 1175 for use in the assessment and specification of a wide range of products and systems.”
Flint explained that the scope of security solutions approved to LPS 1175 continues to expand, in turn meeting the needs of specifiers who are facing an increasingly diverse range of security issues.
“To our knowledge, no other publicly available standard offers such versatility,” concluded Flint.
For further details on Heras UK’s perimeter protection solutions access the company’s official website (a dedicated link is provided on the right hand panel of this page)
Purpose behind the LPS 1175 standard
The purpose of the LPS 1175 standard is to evaluate the resistance to unauthorised access offered by various physical security products.
The standard specifies eight grades of security according to the tools and time likely to be used by an intruder.
Specifiers can therefore select products/systems that provide levels of security matching their needs.
BRE Global (incorporating the LPCB and BREEAM) is an independent third party approvals body offering certification of fire, security and sustainability products and services to an international market.
BRE Global’s product testing and approvals are carried out by recognised experts in world-renowned testing laboratories.
Indeed, BRE Global is the custodian of a number of world leading brands including:
the LPCB (for the approval of fire and security products and services, as listed in the Red Books)
BREEAM: the world’s leading environmental assessment method for buildings, and which sets the standard for Best Practice in sustainable design (and has become the de facto measure of a building’s environmental performance).
BRE Global’s mission is to ‘Protect People, Property and the Planet’. It’s a trading subsidiary of the BRE Trust, the registered research and education charity which owns the BRE Group.
For further information contact: BRE Global, Garston, Watford, Hertfordshire WD25 9XX (telephone: 01923 664100), e-mail: [email protected] or visit the website (a dedicated link is provided on the right hand panel of this page)
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