Have you ever had to hire someone to do work around your home, maybe a nanny to look after your children, a handyman to care for your garden or a pool cleaner? If you have, do you know for sure that the person who seems very nice on the outside is really who they say they are and that they don’t have a past that if known and made available would make them an unwelcome visitor in your home?
For as little as $10 you can now perform background security checks on individuals before opening up your home and exposing your family to them. For just $2.95 you can check that the person driving your child to school or looking after them while you are at work is not on the sex offenders register. Are these not very small prices to pay for that extra piece of mind and security?
Checking on someone’s background is so quick and simple yet it is an area that many of us overlook. We are happy to pay big money for alarm systems and security but we fail to perform the most basic checks before allowing people or workmen into our homes. Okay if you have a plumber coming out to do a repair on a leak it is unlikely that you will rush to perform a background check on them but asking to see some basic ID takes just a few seconds.
Home security starts on your own front doorstep; don’t invite someone over it if they have a possible criminal record, don’t make it any easier for them than it already is. Perform a background security check and ensure that the person you are thinking of hiring doesn’t have a criminal past or any unpleasant convictions to their name – better safe than sorry.
