Security Guard Management

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What do You Need to Know to Ensure Your Team is Ready to Face Any Critical Event? Training Highlights for Risk Mitigation

What This New Normal Means for Enterprise Security Operations Moving forward, especially in this new normal, will be a challenge. Unlike any other business move, for most, joining the restart of the economy after an unprecedented closure due to a health crisis requires determining the best response appropriate for enterprise security solutions and your overall business continuity […]

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What Works and What Doesn’t – Highlights on Guard Tour Training and How You Can Leverage Technology

As security firm owners are currently adopting new strategies to ensure safety and security in this new normal, how have they determined what will work and what won’t? Here are 3 ways technology can help determine what works, what doesn’t, and why. 1. Training Basics: How Training Can Adapt to Changing Times and Needs Security

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Push-to-Talk (PTT) – How its Use is Improving Security Guard Communications

Push-to-Talk (PTT) has come a long way from the times when guards solely relied on limited-range walkie-talkies to communicate with their security team and supervisors. With advances to mobile phone technologies improving in the last decade, PTT communication is here to stay. What PTT Has Done to Improve the Guard Industry PTT isn’t a new

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Mitigating Potential Healthcare Violence with Training, Visitor Management, and Workforce Management Tools

Training Specific to Healthcare Requirements and Needs Security guard training is essential for any industry; however, when in the healthcare space, specialized training is critical. In the case of the COVID-19 pandemic, security guards must be trained to identify COVID-19 symptoms to prevent further spreading – either internally within security staff or externally, when protecting

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Front-Line Workers with a Security Uniform: A Security Guard’s Role in Mitigating Violence for Healthcare Workers

Amid COVID-19 fears and health concerns, time and time again we’ve seen countless ways our healthcare workers and the healthcare industry have stepped up to care for our most ailing community members, despite hardships with lack of resources. What has the physical security industry, specifically guarding, done to support these efforts? While the industry has

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Why The Handbook For Campus Safety And Security Reporting Is A Vital Compliance Measure

Providing security on campus is about more than just keeping students, faculty, and visitors safe. Highly trained campus security teams must also stay compliant with all university security regulations. The Handbook for Campus Safety and Security Reporting is your go-to guide for meeting those compliance measures. Here’s a bit of background: What is the Handbook

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The Purpose & Benefits of a Security Operations Center

It doesn't matter if your organization is local, regional or even global, at some point real-time security information and data will be indispensable to the operational continuity of any organization. Multinational organizations create a Global Security Operations Center (GSOC) while national organizations just call it a Security Operations Center (SOC). For both, the objectives are

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4 Ways Using Technology to Track Guard Tours Benefits Security Operations

It’s probably no surprise that emerging technology has had an impact on the security industry. Let’s dive a little deeper into a few of the different tiers of a security operation and how GPS and guard tour tracking can benefit each. 1. Supervisors Can Track Security Officer Location and Activity No organization wants to think

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Get Your Security Ready for Game Day

Preparing Security for Game Day Sporting events attract masses of people which means that the presence of a security team is very important. Safety and security measures need to be taken seriously to ensure a safe and enjoyable experience for spectators and staff. The primary focus of any event is keeping everything under control and

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5 Issues Hotel Housekeepers Deal with That No One is Addressing

While many departments keep hotels and resorts running, there is one that is often overlooked and underappreciated. That is the housekeeping department. Housekeepers are the backbone of the hotel industry. They are the ones who ensure rooms are clean, prepared, and ready to go when guests arrive. Currently, housekeepers are facing five significant issues that

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