With face masks becoming a mandatory requirement for our everyday lives, whether it be visiting the shops, getting on public transportation or even popping into your local takeaway, we’ve decided to take a look at how face masks have impacted the security industry as a whole. 

ID Please

Ask any security professional or retail worker what their bane of their life is and its ID’ing customers. Even long before masks were introduced, those who are required to ID customers hate it. The classic responses of ‘eeeeh can I tell my husband that’, ‘What are you ID’ing me for, im 35’ ‘this is so offensive’ and so on is really annoying and the unreasonable conflict for asking someone to see their identification is always unnecessary. We are just doing our jobs! 

But now, with masks being a requirement due to Covid 19, security professionals need to ID people now more than ever. With policies such as ‘Challenge 25’, there’s no way door supervisors or security guards can get an accurate interpretation of someone just from their eyes and forehead? Also with numerous videos going viral of teenagers dressing up as the elderly with a face mask on, security professionals need to be more on the ball now than never. 

Long Shifts

With long shifts, often even night shifts too, wearing a mask for long periods of time can be incredibly uncomfortable and agitating. It’s an absolute credit to our front line workers in the NHS who wear full PPE for hours on end and for that we will always be grateful. And for now, it looks like nearly all security professionals and other professionals working in the likes of supermarkets are going to have to continue wearing facemasks for the foreseeable future. Therefore for now, we need to keep doing our duty and continue to follow the guidelines and wear masks. 

If you struggle with the tightness of your mask or you feel like after a while it’s really uncomfortable to wear a mask around your ears.

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