Personal Safe

Personal Safe

1. What do people deem valuable?

   • The possessions people consider valuables differ with each different person. Many believe that their smartphones are the most important possession they own due to the vast amount of personal data they store on the product, others would argue that technological products aren't very high on their list of valuable possessions and possibly that family heir looms and other things of that sort are more important. Safes are designed for all matters of valuables, that is due to the large variety of safe designs in the market today being able to hold large and small possessions.

2. Who owns a safe?

   • Many people own safes, from small personal transportable safes to grounded safes. Many people are unaware of the amount of safe users as they are kept hidden and owners generally don't announce the location of large safes containing valuables as that would defeat the purpose of the product.
   • How could you ever know? It is not something people tend to openly talk about for safety purposes.

3. Are possessions safe within people's homes?

   • This is a seasonal question, as it changes all the time. When not in the home it is usually best to conceal valuables to deter theft, however when there is someone within a home that would usually deter any type of theft. Additionally, the location of a home can determine the safety of possessions and valuables, is the area in question safe itself?
     • What can be done to improve safety of possessions within homes?
       • There are many options and steps that can be taken to attempt to ensure safety of possessions within a home; the first and most obvious of which is to fit housing alarms and security systems. However this method could be very costly, other options include better locking of premisses etc. but another way to keep possessions safe would be to conceal them. By keeping valuable out of sight of potential robbers they will not acquire them; this is due to the fast nature generally of break-ins to homes. This leads homeowners to purchase safes to hold their valuables and wealth in a secure environment.
         • An evident problem with the use of personal safes is that they themselves are easily transportable if located within a home, meaning that they could be taken and then broken into on a later date. This could be avoided by hiding the safe so well that it is unrecognisable as that same product.

4. Materials of a safe?

   • When looking at the materials used to create a safe we must look at some specifications of a safe: Burglar resistant, fire resistant, environmental resistance (e.g. water and dust), has a type of lock (key, combination, time lock or electronic locking).
   • The materials largely used in the manufacture of safes are metals, specifically cast iron for old large safes.

5. Size of a safe?

   • Personal safes vary in size very dramatically, some may be small jewellery safe boxes and other may hold a large amount of valuables.
   • Within the market there are safes produced in many different shapes and sizes, of a personal carry size and then also som in a more stationary fashion which would have to stay within the home. The larger the safe, we can assume, the more detachable it is.
   • The smaller styles of safe usually use a code or key locking system, those that are much like bike locks and chain locks. This keeps them lightweight and also cheaper to produce. The larger designs hold more technology along with an obvious greater amount of belongings. Key pad locking and fingerprint recognition are just two methods of locking a large personal safe.

6. Where would you keep a safe hidden?

   • The possibilities when it comes to hiding a safe are endless, given the right products. Using a disguise for a safe would provide a safe owner to successfully conceal their safe anywhere within their home or on their person. Storage units could be designed to conceal a large safe, and note diaries could be designed to hold personal transportable safes.

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