MODULE 7

• Protective Cabinets - These are the final line of defense at a facility or installation. These would be the place where assets like papers, documents, monetary documents, accessories may be stored
• three types of security cabinets:

  1. Safe
  2. Vault
  3. File room
• Safe - Its weight is at least 750 lbs. ; 1-inch thick steel; door is 1 ½ thick steel
• Vault - Bigger than safe but smaller than a file room.
• File room - This is a cubicle in a building that is lighter than the vault but bigger in size.
• Types of Business Class Records:

  1. Class I (Vital Records)
  2. Class II (Important Records)
  3. Class III (Useful Records)
  4. Class IV (Non-essential Records)
• Vital records - records that are irreplaceable
• Important records - loss will involve considerable expense and cause labor
• Useful records - loss will cause inconvenience but readily replaced
• non-essential records - daily files
• CATEGORY OR TYPES OF STORAGE CONTAINERS:

  1. Class 1
  2. Class 2
  3. Class 3
• Class 1 - Commercial records safes designed for fire protection.
• Class 2 - Commercial money safes designed for robbery burglary protection.
• Class 3 - Security cabinets designed to meet specifications for safeguarding classified materials
• ✓ Vault door is 6 inches thick steel

  ✓ Vault door is fire resistant up to 6 hours

  ✓ Walls, ceiling, floor are 12 inches thick steel

  ✓ Floor is 4 inches or higher

  ✓ Not more than 5000 cubic feet
• File Room

  ✓ Height is 12 feet

  ✓ Not more than 10,000 cubic feet

  ✓ Door is water tight and fire resistive for 1 hour

  ✓ Walls, floor and roof are fire proof