The Four Strategies of CPTED

Guidelines For Industrial Facilities

In most industrial design, the most important issue is the safety of those who will be working or travelling to these areas. Unfortunately, safety is often given little consideration. After work hours, industrials areas are, for the most part, badly illuminated, seldom under any type of surveillance and virtually deserted; which in itself can be problem enough. Add to this isolation the industrial danger areas, loading docks, service entrances, blind alleys and expansive parking areas and you have the potential for an extremely unsafe environment. It is in this type of environment where CPTED strategies and design can really pay off.

• Dead ends should be avoided
  
  
• Site entrances should be easily securable
  
  
• Entrances to parking areas should be controlled by fence, gate or attendant
  
  
• Parking should be assigned by shifts and planned to favor late workers with close-in spaces
  
  
• Pedestrian and vehicular direct access to railroad tracks should be restricted
  
  
• Storage yards should be planned for vehicular access by patrol car
  
  
• Access to roofs via dumpster, loading docks, poles, stacked items etc. should be restricted
  
  
• Access to the building should be limited to no more than two entry points
  
  
• Delivery entrances should be separate, well-marked and monitored
  
  
• Employee entrance should be close to employee parking and work areas
  
  
• Nighttime parking should be separate from service entrances
  
  
• Access to one area of building should not allow access to others
  
  
• Access should be provided to both front and back so that building can patrolled

• All entrances should be well lit, well defined and visible to public and patrol vehicles
  
  
• Parking area should be visible to patrol cars, pedestrians, parking. attendants and/or building personnel
  
  
• Parking attendant should be positioned for maximum visibility of property
  
  
• Reception areas should have a view of parking areas
  
  
• Walls should be used only where necessary and should be high enough to prevent circumvention
  
  
• Blind alleys, storage yards, etc. should not create hiding places
  
  

• Gateway effect or formal entrance should be created with planting, fences, gates, etc
  
  
• Deliveries should be limited to daytime hours
  
  
• Vehicle entrances should be defined by different paving materials and signage
  
  

• Delivery bays should be secured with locks
  
  
• Operating hours should be the same as those of neighboring businesses