SAFES
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It’s a Chatwood Milner Duplex EDR, but what’s the cash rating?
As time went by, the trend
amongst insurers was to reduce
overheads by creating ‘composite
surveyors’ These ‘Jacks (and Jills).
of- all-trades’ surveyed everything;
safes, intruder alarms, perimeter
security, fire protection and health &
safety. Eventually specialist security
surveyors became an endangered
species so when the Association of
Burglary Insurance Surveyors agreed
to merge with the Association of
Fire Insurance Surveyors in 2005,
they found it convenient to drop
‘Burglary’ from their name, becoming
the less specific Association of
Insurance Surveyors. Meanwhile, the
industry had seen the introduction
of European standards for testing
and rating cash safes. Safes tested
successfully in accordance with
EN1143-1 were graded according to
their level of resistance, from Grade
0 through to Grade VI. Each was
given standard cash rating ranging
from £6,000 through to £150,000. This
was intended to make life a whole
lot easier for Chief Surveyors who no
longer had to spend time comparing
one range of safes with another to
determine their relative cash limits.
On the downside, they now had to buy
their own lunch.
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EUROPEAN STANDARDS
This could have sounded the death
knell of the AiS Safe List but the
introduction of European standards
opened the flood gates to foreign
manufacturers. The number of makes
and models marketed in the UK
increased at a staggering rate and the
AiS Safe Committee was constantly
extending its listing of both currently
manufactured safes, and the hundreds
of out-of-production models available
on the reconditioned market. This
involved a tremendous amount of
work and eventually the AiS List
was digitalised and recorded on a
compendium CD. The ensuing disk
was circulated to all AiS members and
updated annually.
Today the AiS List is no longer
restricted to their members and
is available to others outside the
insurance industry, where it is
recognised as an indispensable
reference document for anyone who
has a need to recommend a cash
limit for a safe. The list was also
extended to include other types of
security containers plus vaults and
strongrooms. To assist them with this
Herculean project, the Safe Committee
has, for the past few years, included
specialist guest members from outside
the insurance industry, each bringing
a level of knowledge and expertise.
Members of the committee meet
frequently to update and amend the
Safe List which has become more and
more relevant and comprehensive
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