The 28 Biggest Problems Security Companies Have
With Their Uniform Programs... Does Yours Have These?

By completing the checklist below, you’ll be able to gauge just how professional an image your security uniforms convey and what problems you’re having with your uniform program. How to use this checklist:

• Review each scenario listed below.
• If you are currently experiencing the situation – Check it off
• If you have experienced the scenario - Check it off
• If you believe you might experience any of the following situations in your business - Check it off

When you have checked-off your problematic scenarios, click the “Evaluate My Uniform Program” button. You will then be presented with your Security Uniform Program Needs Score and an evaluation of your uniform program.

Your Security Uniform Problematic Scenarios
	1. Your security officers are getting more uniforms than necessary.
	2. Security officers are getting the wrong items because the uniforms are not standardized based on employee job description or security project.
	3. Employees who are not eligible for specific uniforms and/or gear are receiving them.
	4. Your uniform program administrator has many other responsibilities, in addition to managing the uniforms.
	5. Your uniform program administrator believes they must hold your employees’ hand and do everything for them; otherwise your employees will feel that their uniform issues are handled incorrectly.
	6. Your company has a person (or people) working full-time managing your uniform program.
	7. Your uniform program administrator tracks down employees and works one-on-one with them to solve uniforms problems.
	8. Your management believes that with a managed uniform program, the uniform costs are higher.
	9. You find it difficult to determine how much you’ve spent on your uniforms in the past and how much you need to budget in the future.
	10. When your employee orders the wrong size, you are forced to purchase new, properly sized, uniforms.
	11. Your current supplier has no control over delivery time.
	12. It takes too much time to track down employee, then the uniform company to solve problems, such as management of a wrong size or wrong item.
	13. You feel that if you outsource the uniform management process then you will lose control.
	14. You have your own internal management system (perhaps based on Excel spreadsheets), but don’t have time to either input the information or look up past history. Therefore, the information is not accurate.
	15. You need a better way to determine proper uniform sizes at the time of order.
	16. You have no idea of what items an employee has ordered in the past and/or currently has on-order, so you just order the maximum quantity.
	17. You have no idea when an order is actually going to be received.
	18. You have no idea of what has been ordered or spent on uniforms, on a project-by-project basis, in any specific time period. You have trouble budgeting for uniforms for existing and new projects.
	19. No one in your company has any idea of the company’s actual uniform inventory or your uniform supplier’s inventory.

	20. No one in your company has any idea which orders are pending.
	21. Your uniform program manager has no idea of the status of your company’s account, the number of open orders, open returns, exchanges or repairs, etc..
	22. Your employees feel that they are treated poorly by the administrators of your uniform program.
	23. Your uniformed employees don’t know to determine the correct sizes to order.
	24. Your uniformed employees look horrible – the clothing does not fit well.
	25. Your company is making poor clothing choices and not always based on job description or project.
	26. The wrong items are being worn in the field.
	27. No one in your company knows that a solution to control your uniform program even exists.
	28. You aren’t getting back all of the uniforms from the employees that leave your company. You have a difficult time properly handling returned uniforms.