Late Night Retail
Workers Crime Prevention
Chapter 296-832, WAC |
Effective
Date: 10/01/02 |
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Your Responsibility:
To take certain safety measures to discourage crime in your store
You must:
WAC 296-832-30005
Have a safe in your store
You must:
- Have a drop-safe, limited access safe, or comparable device
in your store.
WAC 296-832-30010
Post a notice about your store’s safe
and cash register
You must:
- Post a notice in an obvious place on a window or door stating:
- There is a safe in the store
- Employees have no access to the safe
- The cash register contains only enough
cash to do business
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Note:
- You will not be cited by WISHA for having money in
the cash register over the minimal amount needed to do
business.
- All displays and other materials posted in the window(s)
or door(s) should be arranged to provide an unobstructed
view of the cash register if it could be visible from
the street.
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WAC 296-832-30015
Provide outside lighting
You must:
Light the store’s approach area and parking lot during
all night hours your business is open.
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Note:
You can do this by:
- Providing surveillance lighting to observe pedestrian
and vehicle entrances.
- Providing lighting of a minimum
of one foot candle to comply with ANSI/IES RP7-1983. Lighting
levels can be measured with a light meter; for comparison
purposes 1 foot-candle=1 lumen incident per square foot=10.76
lux.
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