Effective Management of Workplace Security

Why select this training course?

The multifaceted enterprise function of security management includes identifying and protecting assets, detecting and managing risks for all types of essential business operations, effective performance measurement plans, and assessing security performance within the organization. The three main facets of security management are monitoring, protection, and identification. These are carried out in stages, including asset management, staff awareness training, detection and prevention techniques, environment management, damage control, etc.

What is the importance of security in the workplace?

Every time employees are at work, they have the right to a secure environment. This implies that employees should routinely receive security-related information from their employer and receive enough training on all matters relating to this element. A workplace security system is an effective technique to guarantee the protection of both employees and visitors. It offers an additional layer of defense against dangers that can endanger clients and suppliers, as well as workers or the employers of those clients.

What assets other than humans are protected by workplace security?

Having a security program is one of the top ways to ensure that employees work safely. In addition to the physical security of the workplace, protecting sensitive data, networks, software, and the company’s assets is crucial. A security program must be in place within a corporation. This can mean having different levels of access control depending on the job assignment and access levels for certain areas. It can be as simple as locking doors when not in use to only give certain people access to certain offices or parts of a building.

Managing workplace security isn’t just about installing locks and locksmiths. You must also take extensive measures to ensure a safe and secure workplace. Most of the time, this involves educating employees and making them aware of potential risks and precautions that can be taken when working in a building or environment. Rcademy’s Effective Management of Workplace Security Course guides you through best practices for physical security, including defining and understanding risks, how employees can help reduce those risks, how to properly monitor access control processes and implement standard operating procedures (SOPs), types of access are allowed on company premises, ways in which workers can help protect themselves against specific threats while at work in everyday environments, as well as general safety practices common among field workers.

Who should attend?

The Rcademy’s Effective Management of Workplace Security Course is a must for every employer as well as employee looking to create a safe environment that fosters productivity:

• Policymakers
• Top management
• Departmental heads and managers
• Supervisors
• Team leader
• Start-up founders
• Entrepreneurs

What are the course objectives?

The course has been developed to achieve the following objectives:

• To provide participants with knowledge and skills to manage workplace security
• To identify physical security vulnerabilities in computers, laptops, and other work equipment and assets
• To understand common site physical threats and discuss ways a company can help protect sensitive data in a safe way
• To establish ways of setting security standards
• To understand workplace violence and ways to deal with it
• To understand preventive maintenance systems and ensure the facility is secure
• To prevent accidents, mishappenings, injuries, etc., at the workplace
• To enhance productivity among employees by ensuring the provision of a safe work environment

How will the course be presented?

• Interactive sessions
• Use of case studies
• Management games
• Learning preparation of reports, charts, graphs
• Real-time exercises
• Problem-solving and Group discussion sessions

What are the topics covered?

Module 1: Introduction to Workplace Security

• Understanding workplace security
• Need for workplace security
• Scope of workplace security
• Economic and legal reasons to have a workplace security system
• Things at the workplace that needs to be protected

Module 2: Key Components of Workplace Security Management System 

• Identification of key processes
• Setting performance standards
• Measurement of achievement against set standards
• Auditing and reviewing performance
• Initiating corrective action
• Searching for improvement opportunities
• Establishing Standard Operating Procedure

Module 3: Human Element of Risk

• Human factors affecting safety
• Understanding workplace violence
• Checking references
• Assessing security systems and protocols

Module 4: Implementing Workplace Security Awareness Policy

• Need for workplace security awareness
• Developing a proactive approach
• Key elements of the policy
• Security awareness training
• Elements of security awareness training

Module 5: Office Relocation

• When is office expansion needed?
• A stuffed office hinders security
• Office expansion for workspace energy efficiency
• Aligning office expansion with organization plans
• Working with a budget

Module 6: Office Security Guidelines

• Types of external threats
• Need for physical security
• Establishing robust security
• Alarm system
• Efficient CCTV system
• Establishing unauthorized access zones
• Visitor record register

Module 7: Access Control Policy

• Role-based and Rule-based access control
• Authorization
• Authentication
• Accessing
• Management and Auditing
• Cloud-based access control system
• Physical control access policy

Module 8: Information Security Program 

• Need to protect data
• Types of protected data
• Types of risks: physical loss of data, unauthorized access to data,
• Interception of data, data corruption
• Virus protection
• Establishing an incident response

Module 9: Preventative Maintenance

• Creating a facility maintenance checklist
• Construction works
• Checking building openings
• Lighting
• Fire Equipment
• Building maintenance checklist

Module 10: Implementation of Workplace Security System

• Setting management responsibilities
• Participation by employees
• Safety and health management system records
• Devising workplace precautions
• Hazard identification
• Setting emergency response

Module 11: Measuring and Reviewing Performance

• Appointing a safety and health manager
• Measurement metrics
• Setting reviewing policy
• Active and reactive monitoring
• Workplace security audit
• Audit Protocols

Module 12: Risk Assessment and Control

• Preparing an inventory
• Trained risk assessors
• Risk estimation
• Key stages of risk assessment