HDS Personnel

SECURITY TRAINING POLICY

GENERAL TRAINING STATEMENT

HDS Securities Ltd aim to ensure that all staff not only receive the Basic Training essential for any Security Officer, together with the necessary on-site specialist training to ensure duties are correctly and efficiently executed. This will also instill in staff the need for a Security Officer to be a ‘thinking' (as well as a thoroughly professional) operative to counteract the wide variety of threats of modern times.

TRAINING DETAIL

The company policy is to conform to the requirements of the Code of Practice BS 7499.

Basic Training – All new staff undergo a minimum two day ‘in house' prior to being rostered to Assignment, the course covers a variety of areas from:

•  ISPS – 5 modules

•  Manual Handling – video

•  Health and Safety - video

•  Fire Training – presentations on the use of fire equipment, fire alarms, muster points and video

•  Basic Duties – presentations on filling in incident reports correctly, DOB Book, Filing, C.C.T.V. Monitoring, law, Access Control

•  Patrolling

•  Communications – presentations on use of radios, using a switchboard

•  Customer Care

•  Security Awareness – presentations are given on Bomb Threats and Improvised Explosive Devices together with instruction in techniques for recording Suspicious Persons and Vehicles.

•  Search Procedures – video

•  Emergency First Aid – if required, training to ‘Appointed Person' level is given, and this may later be extended to a ‘First Aid at Work' qualification.

•  High Risk Conflict – presentation and scenario (role playing)

•  Management Training – staff attend appropriate courses to ensure a balanced level of skills is maintained.