Maglock on wrong side of door

[ElecTech]

Hi,

 

Been to a site today we wish to take the maintenance over on the access control, on closer inspection numerous maglocks have been fitted on the unsecure side of the door (internal office doors) to non critical areas.

 

You can kind of understand why the guy initially done it if you could see the setup/door frames etc. but you could  an intruder can still gain access with the right tools. Is this something that needs noting in the as fitted as I presume its an uncompliant system? They've never had an NSI cert as the previous works were done by long gone company. 

 

Global question really - Would you still maintain a site with incompliances but make sure the customer is aware of them?

 

Any insight in to how other firms would go about this would be helpful.

[Amps]

It depends on the risk assessment on which side the maglock is fitted.

[james.wilson]

if internal doors then id say non issue

[PeterJames]

I would agree internal doors, someone would notice if there was a man in a stripey shirt and a swag bag unbolting the lock

 

[ElecTech]

Ah ok, interesting...

 

Does this apply to new installs as well? If there is no risk on an internal door, no issue as such?

 

* in the eyes of NCP-109 is it still uncompliant?

Edited July 26, 2017 by ElecTech

[james.wilson]

if you mean compliant then no imo it isn't

[Amps]

4 minutes ago, ElecTech said:

 

 

Does this apply to new installs as well? If there is no risk on an internal door, no issue as such?

 

 

 

There must be a risk otherwise why have a maglock? Depends on what type of risk ;-)

[james.wilson]

yeah but unless low risk you wouldn't use a maglock

[PeterJames]

22 minutes ago, Amps said:

 

There must be a risk otherwise why have a maglock? Depends on what type of risk ;-)

It will stop an opportunist that happens to be in the building and tries a door, it wont stop someone tooled up, but someone having a go at a mag-lock will get noticed. Lets face it mag-locks can still be forced open if your heavy enough, but anyone trying would be noticed doing so 

[ElecTech]

1 hour ago, Amps said:

 

There must be a risk otherwise why have a maglock? Depends on what type of risk ;-)

 

To some degree but its main purpose is staff audit trail and access reports of certain areas, so having said that the staff aren't likely to be barging there way into the next office.