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Purpose of Seminar:
Building and facility management personnel attending this course will discover the variety of security risks they face and how to mitigate them. Learning from the experiences of a true expert in the field, students leaving this seminar will have gained a solid understanding of the basic concepts involved with physical security and the knowledge they need to begin implementation procedures towards making their facility more secure.
Who should take this course?
This seminar is a must for anyone involved with building and facility management, maintenance or security. Attendees come from a wide variety of industries, company sizes and job titles, so if you’re not sure you’ll fit in or benefit from the class, don’t worry – you will – as long as your work involves the security of grounds and buildings.
Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this course students will receive a personalized Certificate of Completion and 1.4 CEU’s (Continuing Education Units) approved by the Maintenance Training Association of the Americas indicating that the student has learned to:
- Identify risks that apply to their buildings
- Understand the basic concept of physical security
- Identify key legal issues associated with premises liability and physical security
- Identify the components of a security survey
- Understand how lighting affects security
- Understand how and if perimeter fencing and others barriers will enhance security
- Identify types of access control systems and how to select a system for your facility
- Identify types of Intrusion Detection Systems and how to select a system for your facility
- Understand how Closed Circuit TV can enhance your security posture
- Identify the pros and cons of a guard force, and how to manage a guard force
- Apply standard Incident and Post-Incident procedures during a mock incident
Course Outline / Agenda
Learners in this course will receive insights and an understanding of Physical Security as it
relates to facility management. Through instructor lectures, real world experiences, classroom
demonstrations, and practical student exercises, students will gain a working knowledge of
lighting strategies, access control system devices, intrusion detection systems, guard force and
CCTV operations. They will be able to identify procedures for conducting a proper security survey,
which will reveal risks and threats they may not have considered before coming to this class. And
they will be given the opportunity to develop a security strategy specific to their site or facility.
By the time students leave this seminar, they will have a much clearer perspective of what proper
building and grounds security is, and how to go about implementing change to achieve security goals.
Course Administration and Program Overview
- - What you will learn
- - Program requirements
Introduction to Security
- - Why do I secure?
- - What do I secure?
- - How do I secure?
- - What security measures will/will not be adequate?
Liability
- - The duty to protect
- - The ability to “foresee” a crime
- - Security liability standards
Security Surveys
- - Identifying security needs
- - Who What When How & Why
Lighting
- - Lighting Strategies
- - How lighting affects security
Perimeter Security
- - Fencing and barriers
- - Deterring criminal activity
- - Controlling access
Evening Assignment
- - Observe examples of lighting security
- - Observe perimeter security
Assignment Reports
- - Report on and discuss lighting security observed
- - Report on and discuss perimeter security observed
Access Control
- - Who is in your building?
- - Why are they in your building?
- - When are they in your building?
- - How do you know?
- - Do you need to care?
Intrusion Detection Systems
- - What defines unauthorized entry?
- - Alarm systems for prevention
- - Other detection systems for prevention
Closed Circuit TV
- - Types of cameras
- - Placement of cameras
- - Monitoring
Guard Force
- - Do you need them?
- - Do you want them?
- - How to control them
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