Scaffold Alarm Systems
Scaffolding can give intruders easy access to your site. Our Scaffolding Alarm Systems remove that risk, protecting your site and meeting all key industry and insurance standards.
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Scaffold Security Systems
Secure Your Site. Protect Your People.
Scaffolding is essential for safe site access – but it can also create a route for intruders. Our Scaffold Alarm Systems are designed to eliminate that risk, preventing unauthorised entry, deterring theft, and protecting your site and workforce throughout every stage of construction.
Built Around the Challenges You Face
Construction sites are vulnerable, especially after hours. Traditional deterrents can be bypassed, and a lack of monitoring leaves valuable equipment and exposed access points open to threat. Delays in alarm installation only widen the window for risk. We solve these challenges with innovative, reliable, and rapidly deployable scaffold alarm solutions.
How We Solve It
- Rapid Installation, Nationwide
We can deploy our systems across the UK within 24 hours. - 24/7 Professional Monitoring
All alarms are linked to our Alarm Receiving Centre (ARC), ensuring an instant response to breaches, with manned response available where needed. - Minimised False Alarms
Intelligent sensors and real-time analysis mean you only get alerts when there’s a real threat. - Insurance-Approved & Accredited
Fully compliant with NCP115 and NACOSS Gold certified, helping you stay covered and audit-ready. - Expert Installation You Can Trust
Our DBS-checked engineers install and test everything quickly, cleanly, and with minimal disruption to your site.
Setting The Standards
We are proud to be the UK’s only scaffolding alarm installer with NACOSS Gold accreditation from the NSI – the highest mark of quality and competence in the security industry.
The NCP115 Code of Practice, established by the National Security Inspectorate (NSI), sets the industry’s gold standard for the design, installation, and maintenance of scaffolding alarm systems. Achieving compliance is a clear demonstration of business excellence and a commitment to best-in-class site security.
We don’t just meet these standards – we helped shape them. Our team worked in close collaboration with the NSI to help develop the NCP115 framework, setting the benchmark for scaffolding security nationwide.
We take pride in being fully NCP115 compliant, understanding how critical it is to protect properties during their most vulnerable phases – especially when scaffolding is in place.
Smart Add-Ons for Smarter Sites
ScaffCam™ – Visual Verification with Every Alert
Wireless CCTV with built-in PIR technology gives you eyes on the issue, not just alerts. Clear video footage is automatically sent to our ARC, helping filter threats from false triggers.
- Long battery life (up to 2 years)
- Tamper-resistant design
- Seamless integration with your scaffold alarm system
- Quick install, no power required
Scaffold Evacuation Alarms
Keep Workers Safe in an Emergency
Protect your team with reliable evacuation alerts across scaffold lifts and site zones. It is ideal for stopping structural failures, or high-risk activities.
- Up to 80 emergency push points per site
- Integrated zone mapping and instant site-wide notification
- Fully monitored 24/7
Ideal For:
- Construction Sites
- Infrastructure Projects
- Housing Developments
- Refurbishments and Fit-Outs
- Vacant Properties
- Scaffold Towers and Access Routes
The Sectors We Serve
Our scaffolding alarm solutions are specifically tailored to meet the unique demands of your industry. From initial assessment to proactive action, we design and implement protection strategies that are built around your exact needs, ensuring maximum security and peace of mind every step of the way.
What Makes Orbis Different?
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Expertise You Can Count On:
Over 40 years of experience protecting people, property, and assets.
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Always On, Always Ready:
24/7/365 monitoring from our accredited Alarm Receiving Centre (ARC) team.
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Cost-Effective Solutions:
Reduce upfront costs with flexible rental options, including maintenance.
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Nationwide Coverage:
Rapid response from a truly national service team, ready to deploy anywhere in the UK.
Our Alarm Receiving Centre (ARC)
The ARC is our central control centre, with one mission: to safeguard people, sites, and properties across the UK through live monitoring of thousands of CCTV systems, alarms, and lone worker devices.
Each member of our ARC team is fully SIA trained to manage security incidents and coordinate rapid escalations to mobile response teams, on-site keyholders, and local police authorities when necessary.
- By utilising the power and speed of Orbis AI, our ARC team can detect and respond to suspicious activity or an onsite emergency
- Our security systems deliver industry leading uptimes – giving you the confidence that your site is fully monitored
- We have direct access to national police control rooms, bypassing 999 services and saving valuable time in emergencies
- Fully accredited BS5979 Cat II emergency service-approved response and data management standard: ISO27001:2013
- Fully owned military-grade building operating 24/7/365, with onsite back-up systems in the event of power failure
Our connected solution
Through our UK based Alarm Receiving Centre, our security systems form part of a connected solution that offers enhanced security efficiency, real-time monitoring, and seamless management. By integrating security systems with other technologies, we can create a comprehensive security ecosystem that provides greater visibility and control.
This connected approach enables centralised monitoring, automatic alerts, and predictive maintenance, all of which improves response times and reduces risk, ensuring a smarter, more efficient way to protect your property, people, and assets.
It all starts with a call
For more information about our solutions or to make an enquiry, please fill out our contact form or give our team a call. We’ll be happy to assist you.
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