Harry Soref was a Ukrainian immigrant who settled in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in the US in the early 1900s. In 1921, he founded Master Lock, a company whose now 100-year history is dotted with some fascinating milestones in both popular culture and the development of security technology.
History and helpfulness
Robert Pullinger, Operations Director of IB McIntyre & Co, who represent Master Lock in South Africa, is an enthusiastic evangelist for locking things up and doing it well.
“We can help you lock up anything from an aircraft to a mine,” he says. A mine? A whole mine?
Pullinger explains that it has to do with tag-out systems, where various employees, whose personal locks can be labelled, have to lock, unlock and move their locks to different tag stations that are part of the apparatus securing circuit boards, fuel lines, heavy machinery and other similarly high-risk parts of huge operations like mines. This enables colleagues to determine who is still in which part of which facility, and whether the next step in an operation can safely be begun.
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