Translate food, alcohol, employment, safety, fire, accessibility, environmental, privacy, security, and license rules into daily controls.
Protection
U.S.-based · Global reach
Site Security & Loss Prevention
Site security and loss prevention begin with protecting people and maintaining a safe, controlled operating environment. Cole evaluates physical access, keys and credentials, opening and closing, surveillance, alarms, lighting, cash movement, receiving, inventory, equipment, employee practices, visitor and vendor access, incident reporting, and emergency escalation. We combine site-level observation with transaction and operating analysis to identify vulnerabilities, strengthen deterrence, investigate unusual activity, close procedural gaps, and establish controls that protect the business without undermining the employee or customer experience.
What this work is designed to deliverSafer sites, reduced leakage, faster incident and exception detection, protected assets, and security controls managers can consistently enforce.
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Senior expertise.
Practical execution.
We combine physical walkthroughs, employee interviews, transaction exceptions, inventory movement, access records, and incident history to locate where opportunity and weak accountability intersect. Controls are layered around deterrence, early detection, response, evidence preservation, and management review without turning the site into an adversarial workplace.
Our operating approachNo seagull management. We can enter at the diagnostic, planning, implementation, stabilization, or ongoing-advisory stage—and remain accountable through execution, adoption, and a sustainable handoff.
Assess perimeter, access, keys, credentials, lighting, alarms, cameras, blind spots, deliveries, loading, restricted areas, and opening and closing.
Review cash, safes, drawers, deposits, refunds, discounts, voids, gift cards, purchasing, receiving, inventory, waste, timekeeping, and data exceptions.
Test separation of duties, approvals, user access, vendor and contractor controls, evidence retention, incident reporting, and investigation support.
Prepare teams for robbery, theft, trespass, workplace violence, active threat, suspicious activity, emergency communication, and law-enforcement response.
Coordinate privacy, surveillance, employee-relations, evidence, weapons, access, and reporting practices with applicable law, policy, and counsel.
Establish loss metrics, exception review, case files, corrective actions, restitution or insurance support, and executive escalation.
Details that protect the work
What clients cannot afford to discover too late.
Requirements vary by jurisdiction and operating model. We identify the dependencies early, assign ownership, maintain the evidence, and coordinate licensed specialists wherever professional authority is required.
Assign owners for inspections, training, logs, incidents, corrective actions, renewals, records, drills, maintenance, and escalation.
Test controls during peak volume, turnover, outages, emergencies, management change, and contractor or vendor activity.
Maintain evidence that standards are understood, followed, reviewed, corrected, and sustained—not merely written.
When to bring us in
Before a decision.
During a transition.
When performance slips.
Build or launch
Get the structure, economics, people, systems, and controls right before opening or expansion.
Fix or stabilize
Step into an urgent gap, stop leakage, restore accountability, and protect the business.
Improve or grow
Strengthen the operating platform before scaling, transacting, refinancing, or adding leadership.
Flexible engagement
Focused project
A defined issue, deliverable, timeline, and implementation plan.
Fractional leadership
Hands-on senior ownership without adding a permanent full-time executive.
Ongoing advisory
Regular operating review, decision support, accountability, and governance.
Step in where it matters