Will a security X-ray machine fit through a standard office door?

Yes, if you specify the right one. The Hissco HS 5030 EVO2 is built to pass through a standard 825 mm door frame and into small and medium lifts, which makes it the usual choice for receptions, mailrooms and upper-floor installations. RedteQ surveys doors, lifts, ramps and floor loadings before quoting, because access is the constraint that most often derails a lobby installation.

How do you screen visitors without making reception feel hostile?

Specify for the actual risk and for flow. A compact X-ray and an archway with zone indication let staff resolve most alarms with a question rather than a search, and keep visitors moving. For sensitive meetings, rapidly deployable concealed item detection can be set up outside the room and removed afterwards, so the building isn't permanently fortified for an occasional need.

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Screening For Offices And Receptions

A corporate lobby has to feel like a welcome and work like a checkpoint. The equipment has to fit through the door, look like it belongs, and screen a visitor without making them feel like a suspect.

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What You're Actually Trying To Stop

Most offices are not screening for the same reason an airport is. The driver is usually a specific, identifiable concern — and naming it honestly is what stops you over-buying.

Weapons brought into the building — the reason most corporate screening programmes start, often after an incident elsewhere in the sector.
Items posted or delivered in — a mailroom problem more often than a lobby one, and worth separating from visitor screening.
Recording devices in sensitive meetings — boardrooms, results announcements and negotiations, where the risk is information rather than harm.
Reputational damage — a heavy-handed checkpoint in a client-facing lobby has its own cost, and it should be weighed.

Security screening checkpoint installed in a central London corporate lobby — A central London lobby: screening that reads as part of the building, not bolted onto it.

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What Works In A Lobby

Compact, quiet and quick. Corporate screening lives or dies on whether reception can run it without a security background.

Compact X-ray

The HS 5030 EVO2 fits through a standard 825 mm door frame and into most lifts — which is usually the constraint nobody checks until delivery day.

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Walk-Through Detectors

Networkable archways with zone indication, so reception staff can resolve an alarm with a question rather than a search.

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Concealed Item Detection

Rapidly deployable screening outside a boardroom for phones and recording devices — set up for a single sensitive meeting, then packed away.

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Just as important

What You Probably Don't Need

You probably don't need a permanent checkpoint. Plenty of offices need screening for a specific week, a specific meeting or a specific visitor profile, and hire covers that far more sensibly than a capital purchase and a lobby rebuild. You also don't need the biggest tunnel: reception screening is handbags, laptop bags and rucksacks, and specifying a machine for cases you will never screen wastes both money and floor space. And if your real problem is what arrives in the post rather than what walks in the door, the answer is a cabinet X-ray in the mailroom, not an archway in the lobby.

In practice

How It Runs Day To Day

Sized to the building

We survey doors, lifts, floor loadings and power before anything is quoted — the reason our installs don't stall on delivery day.

Run by reception

Operator familiarisation for the people who will actually use it, plus accredited screener training through our partners if you want it formalised.

Compliant and quiet

IRR17 registration, RPA appointment and radiation surveys handled, so facilities aren't left holding an obligation they didn't know existed.

We recommend AI detection on every X-ray we supply outside aviation — it holds the detection standard whether reception is busy or quiet. Own an X-ray and you take on legal duties under IRR17: see the five steps every operator needs.

Screening That Fits Your Lobby

Send us the door width, the lift dimensions and what you're worried about. We'll tell you what fits, physically and proportionately.

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