The Key Safe Company discusses its participation in the upcoming International Security Expo in London, highlighting the ark Tamo Pro – the world’s first mechanical key safe to achieve the LPS1175 Issue 8 B1 security rating from the Loss Prevention Certification Board.

Not all key safes are equal

Not all key safes are equal. Access management specialists at The Key Safe Company hope to demonstrate exactly that in September’s International Security Expo in London.

The Worcester-based firm will once again put its ark Tamo Pro under intense duress when it goes under attack in the LPCB Live Testing Lab.

The product could not be breached during testing at last year’s ISE, reinforcing the ark Tamo Pro’s boast as the world’s most secure mechanical key safe.

The company is confident of the status quo, when the product takes its turn in the attack testing spotlight on the morning of September 30 and the afternoon of October 1.

The ark Tamo Pro, which securely stores keys at the point of need, is the world’s first and only mechanical key safe to achieve the LPS1175 Issue 8 B1 security rating from the Loss Prevention Certification Board.

It is the latest product to join the company’s police-preferred range of key safes, meaning it has been certified by Secured by Design, an official police-led, product-based scheme that works to improve home security.

Only key safes able to withstand vigorous physical attacks can achieve a police-preferred seal of approval and specification badge.

Not only is it built to withstand the type of attack that might compromise other products on the market, but it’s built to last – engineered with security and reliability front and centre.

Lock-picking resistant

The key safe features an anti-pick mechanism that makes it highly resistant to lock-picking or covert attacks and nitride anti-saw pins strategically placed at vulnerable points to prevent drilling and cutting attacks.

Its patented, multi-push button function extends the number of potential code combinations to 9.7 million while its large, illuminated buttons ensure it is easy to use at all times of the day and in all weathers.

Tamo Pro: Attack tested

David Ogden, Founder and Chief Executive, The Key Safe Company: “The ark Tamo Pro is as secure as most front doors because of the way it has been designed and manufactured.

“We don’t want people to take our word for it, we want them to see this for themselves, which is why we’re putting the ark Tamo Pro up for attack testing at one of the most important events in the security industry calendar.

“The response, whenever we have exhibited the product at trade shows around the world, has always been incredibly positive.

“We’re expecting exactly the same when industry experts see the ark Tamo Pro in action at the ISE.

“The ark Tamo Pro is a product of 30 years’ worth of fine tuning and listening to customer feedback. It has evolved over time, in much the same way as the business.”

Ogden highlighted: “We have made research and development a big part of what we do.

“That hasn’t just benefitted the products we build in-house, it has had a positive impact on our many clients in the commercial and consumer worlds.

“This has also been felt by the access management sector as a whole because our products have long set the benchmark for other key safe manufacturers to reach.

“By always striving to deliver more for customers – more resilience, more reliability, more convenience – we have improved the standard of our competitors’ products.”

Legitimising the Key Safe Company

Ogden believes that achieving the highest possible security rating for key safes from the LPCB, has helped the business to further legitimise its products as part of the security ecosystem.

It demonstrates, he says, that a properly tested mechanical key safe can resist physical attacks, meet insurance criteria and hold up under scrutiny from professional security teams.

Ogden continued: “We needed to go above and beyond and prove these products could stand shoulder to shoulder with the rest of the security infrastructure.

“This is something we have worked hard on to achieve.

“We’re actively involved in education because we want the general public and not just the security industry, to understand our products, to know that not all key safes are equal and why that is the case.

“There is certainly more openness to key safes now, largely because of our products and the way they have set the benchmark for what a secure and reliable key safe needs to do and how it should operate.

“Key safes are more accepted because the quality is higher.

“The risk profile of storing keys outside a property has been met and we’ve been at the forefront of that.”

Ogden articulated the old adage ‘you get what you pay for’, is apt when reflecting on the value of The Key Safe Company’s products as ultra-secure access management solutions, but the company has worked to ensure their latest models are available at affordable rates, especially when bought in bulk.

Local authorities that have procured large volumes of key safes, as part of a new look delivery of social care in the UK, are said to have saved millions of pounds in operational efficiencies.

Key safes have also helped to save lives by facilitating easy and immediate access for paramedics, first aiders and care providers, without the presence of a keyholder.

Ogden hopes that the keyholder industry will be the next to follow suit.

He believes his company’s products are perfectly suited to companies that manage access to commercial premises like shops, offices, hotels, restaurants, distribution centres and factories.

“We provide high-quality, attack standard products that set the bar and offer volume-based key safe deployment that could change the way traditional keyholding is delivered.

“We have developed a key storage solution that has the ability to cut costs, drive efficiencies and deliver seamless operations for keyholder companies,” he said.

In any setting, it’s imperative for a key safe to work every time it is called upon to provide access to keys at the point of need. But this function takes on another level of importance in relation to the neediest in society.

Ogden continued: “There is nothing more compelling than providing products that look after the sick, elderly and vulnerable in their own homes.

“It focuses the mind on the products you are deploying. Every day, carers were running around for keys stored in costly keyholding centres.

“Deploying key safes enabled councils to shut down these centres, saving them literally millions of pounds on keyholder and maintenance fees, fuel costs and manpower.”

The Key Safe Company has only been able to transform the delivery of social care because of the reliability of its mechanical products.

Unlike so many electronic key safes on the market, they operate free from the threat of power cuts, poor connectivity or an intermittent battery.

And – thanks to their box-within-a-box design, stainless steel interior and hardened weather cover – they operate come rain, shine, thunderstorm or blizzard.

There’s been no let-up this year in Ogden’s pursuit to take the business global.

In April 2025, The Key Safe Company expanded into North America with its new Wolflok brand after agreeing a deal with a major distributor in the States.

Other distributors across the Atlantic have since joined forces with Wolflok and Ogden has hinted that more breakthroughs are on the way that will have the power to further transform the way the security industry manages access.

Ogden’s narrative and goals are clear.

He wants to continue to educate the world that not all key safes are equal.

He wants organisations and individuals to see his key safes as simple, failsafe devices that guarantee secure access without any compromise.

International Security Expo

For more information about The Key Safe Company’s police preferred products, visit https://keysafe.co.uk/

Watch the ark Tamo Pro undergo attack testing at the International Security Expo on stand C133:

10.10 – 10.40 – Tuesday 30^th September

12.20 – 12.50 – Wednesday 1^st October

Further information on attack tests can be found on the International Security Expo website.

This article was originally published in the September edition of Security Journal UK. To read your FREE digital edition, click here.