One key. Simpler maintenance access. A more consistent estate.

Give your team a familiar way to access radiator covers, IPS panels and maintenance access panels, with one key across suitable installations fitted with Contour Secure locks.

Establish a shared locking standard for your healthcare estate, starting with the areas that need it most.

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Different buildings. Different panels. Another key to find.

Your team arrives to carry out a maintenance job. The panel uses a different lock from the one in the next room. The key they need is back at the workshop, with a colleague or missing altogether.

Before the work can begin, someone has to find it.

Healthcare estates develop over years. Wards are refurbished, buildings extended and equipment replaced. Each project can introduce another locking system, leaving your team to manage the growing collection.

You are responsible for keeping the estate running. Your team should not have to work around avoidable access problems to do it.

Stop the next project adding to the problem.

Without an agreed locking standard, every refurbishment, replacement or new installation can introduce another system.

Another key to identify. Another spare to keep track of. Another panel that operates differently from the one beside it.

Your team continues spending time working around those differences, while the next project risks adding more.

The longer that pattern continues, the more installations you may eventually need to review and bring into line.

Access panel with a flush lock in a ward room

Give your team simpler access. Give yourself a standard to build on.

 

Picture a maintenance job that starts with the work itself.

Your team arrives with the right key, recognises the locking system and accesses the panel without searching for another tool or calling a colleague.

Across installations included in your standard, the approach is familiar.

When the next refurbishment comes around, you have a clear requirement to give manufacturers, specifiers and contractors. Your team inherits installations that follow the agreed approach.

  • Fewer avoidable interruptions for your staff.
  • Clearer decisions for your projects.
  • Greater control over how maintenance access develops across your estate.

Set the standard around the people who need access.

Standardisation starts with understanding your estate.

Who needs access? Which installations should share a key? Where do access arrangements need to remain separate?

Agreeing those boundaries helps you introduce consistency while retaining appropriate separation between areas.

Contour Secure helps you review your current arrangements, assess compatibility and identify where a shared locking system could work. You can then make decisions around your team’s needs, existing installations and planned projects.

Three steps towards a more consistent estate.

Step 1

Review your current access arrangements.

Tell us which locking systems your team uses, where access causes frustration and what work is coming up.

Step 2

Assess a practical starting point.

Review suitable applications, access boundaries and installation requirements. Evaluate the relevant lock configuration before agreeing your approach.

Step 3

Carry the standard into future work.

Introduce the agreed system where appropriate, then communicate the requirement to the people supplying and specifying your next installations.

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Improve what you have. Guide what comes next.

Upgrade suitable existing installations.

Serviceable covers and panels may not need replacing to improve their locks.

Assessing retrofit suitability can give you a practical route to standardisation, starting with a ward, building or group of installations.

Explore retrofit options

Specify consistency into future projects.

An upcoming refurbishment is an opportunity to stop the collection of locking systems growing.

Define the requirement early, so manufacturers, specifiers and contractors understand the approach before products are selected.

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Retrofitted radiator guard at the Hertfordshire unit

Case study · Hertfordshire

A practical upgrade in an existing healthcare setting.

 

At an acute mental illness unit in Hertfordshire, Contour Secure locks were retrofitted to 56 existing radiator guards. The project retained the guards, with specially designed keys supporting access where clearance was restricted.

It demonstrates how suitable existing installations can be upgraded around the constraints of the setting.

Read the case study
Contour Secure tamper-resistant cam lock

Review the lock behind the standard.

Contour Secure’s tamper-resistant cam lock provides the common locking system across suitable applications.

Explore configurations, installation requirements and technical information to assess whether it fits your estate.

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Start with the access problem your team wants solved.

You do not need to standardise the whole estate at once.

Start with the ward where keys cause frustration, the panels your team struggles to access or the refurbishment already being planned.

Establish a workable approach now, and give the next project a clearer standard to follow.

Discuss your estate

Call 01952 890158 or email sales@contoursecure.co.uk.