In preparation of opening a new bus depot in Toronto, Metrolinx staged a mock disaster that included included response from several agencies throughout the city, as well as served to test the company's systems in place.
ASIS International and the Security Industry Association (SIA), announced a free virtual event, titled “Global DE&I Strategy: Policy and Practices that Produce Positive Business Outcomes," to help security leaders around the world develop and implement diversity, equity and inclusion (DE&I) strategies.
Security's Editorial Advisory Board member Dean Alexander, an author of several books on terrorism and a Western Illinois University School of Law Enforcement professor and director of the WIU Homeland Security Research Program, will be a part of a training program for more than 60 new incoming Illinois police chiefs through the Illinois Law Enforcement Training and Standards Board Executive Institute.
Security personnel are seeing their roles expand as they assist companies and communities in combating COVID-19. They are performing temperature screening, monitoring personal protective equipment (PPE) usage and physical distancing, managing building occupancy, controlling line-ups, and even assisting with contact tracing. To support new needs, and keep employees safe at the same time, security companies have instituted new training programs and methods given these changing conditions.
As users receive more security awareness training, their ability to effectively deal with security threats increases, reveals a new study by MediaPRO, co-sponsored with Osterman Research. The report also found that boring security awareness training doesn’t make employees want to be secure.
(ISC)², a nonprofit association of certified cybersecurity professionals, unveiled the agenda for its 10th annual Security Congress, which will take place virtually November 16-18, 2020.
The non-profit International Foundation for Cultural Property Protection and consultancy and training firm Trident Manor Limited entered a strategic partnership to deliver specialized cultural property protection learning programs, as well as increase mutual support for the protection of cultural heritage globally.
COVID-19 has created a new temporary normal of employees working from home, leaving offices mostly empty, with the exception of essential personnel. GuideWell, a health solutions company, is no different.
Arkansas Governor Asa Hutchinson announced the creation of a task force to study and analyze best practices and procedures for recruiting, training and maintaining law enforcement officers in the state.
It may well be that the primary reason that security officers have historically struggled to achieve high levels of organizational and vocational relevance and performance is based solely on their generalized lack of health, wellness and physical fitness.
