February 14, 2011—The U.K.’s BRE Global’s Loss Prevention Certification Board (LPCB) announced February 10 that Essex Safety Glass has become the first company to achieve approval for its ESG Secure Laminated Security Glazing to the LPCB Loss Prevention Standard LPS 1270: Issue 1 – Requirements and Testing Procedures for the LPCB Approval and Listing of Intruder Resistant Security Glazing Units.
LPS 1270 was developed to enhance the current level of security offered by glass tested to European Standard BS EN 356:2000 (Glass in Building, Security Glazing, Testing and Classification of Resistance against Manual Attack), enabling glazing systems to offer the independently proven higher levels of security compatible with LPS 1175, LPCB’s leading standard used for medium- and high-level physical security products and systems.
Richard Flint, LPCB’s Physical Security Certification Scheme Manager, said, “By choosing ESG products certificated to LPS 1270, specifiers and manufacturers will have the confidence that glazing specified to LPS 1270 as part of the faade security is in line with products specified to LPS 1175 for doors, shutters, grilles and other related faade systems.”
The standard confirms the glazing’s resistance to the creation of three different sizes of holes. These represent different risks ranging from small slots to access panic hardware (i.e. on a glazed doorset that provides a means of escape to public buildings) to large holes through which items such as jewelry and designer clothing may be stolen when on display in a retail environment. The tools and time that the glazing must withstand match those that products classified in accordance with LPS 1175: Issue 7 must resist. LPCB certification also requires ongoing quality surveillance audits.
