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Evaluate Your Security Program to Guide Future Success Choosing the right security provider is a decision that will significantly affect the safety of your organization. Properly evaluating and understanding your environment is key to finding a beneficial partnership. After reviewing a few key factors, you can successfully search for a quality and value-oriented partner that is dedicated to your security program. Current Program What do you like about your existing security officer services program? After …
Data Centers: Specialized Security for Sensitive Settings Data centers, whether self-owned and managed or operated by a third party, are built to be secure environments. But successful daily operations require the attentive eye of well-trained, experienced security teams to help ensure that data is secure and employees are safe. This sensitive environment requires a specialized security team. Personnel Quality This highly compartmentalized environment with its own strict requirements demands sophisticated …
Security Industry Imperative: Attracting the Best and Brightest Hollywood has not been kind or accurate in its comedic portrayal of the security officer. Films such as Mall Cop and Observe and Report depict far more fiction than fact. In reality, security officers are diligent, highly trained men and women who act as first responders. Security officers have a wide range of training and skills and must be prepared to respond to everything from a fire or a medical emergency to a lost child or a power …
Raising Standards: FBI Criminal Record Checks Are Vital to Public Safety & Trust Recent high-profile media stories, such as CNN’s “Hired Guns”, have focused attention on our country’s patchwork of regulations governing the hiring and training of private security officers. While sensationalized, these stories spotlight a serious issue: Inadequate and inconsistent regulatory standards can open the door for the hiring of armed and unarmed security officers who are ill-trained and unfit for their role. In an …
Workplace Safety Success Requires Leadership Support Businesses spend $170 billion annually on costs associated with occupational injuries and illnesses, which are expenditures that come straight out of corporate profits. Workplaces that have established safety and security cultures can reduce their injury and illness costs by 20 to 40%. Even more important than cost is the fundamental need to protect employees. Employee well-being as well as employee retention and brand protection are tied to workplace …
Three Keys to Success: Partnerships with Institutions of Higher Learning Shanna Fowler, Career Services Manager at Grantham University, is a guest blog author for Allied Universal. With the modern job market’s constant evolution, it is important for employers to establish strong relationships with university career centers to help build their talent pool and find high-quality candidates. The relationship between career centers and employers does not need to be a formally documented partnership; however, it …
Safety-First Approach to Security At chemical, petrochemical and utilities sites where safety is the constant top priority, the standard approach to security is anything but standard. The security approach needs to be safety first. An effective program engages security professionals and supervisors in setting a positive example and communicating the importance of individual and team safety. The program must demonstrate active concern for the safety of employees, contractors and visitors. As the security …
What Defines Security Program Value? In today’s marketplace, value is a popular topic of conversation. Particularly within service industries, value is one of the most critical considerations when choosing a provider. But why is it so important? What does delivering value really bring to the table? Partnership – When a security officer services provider is committed to delivering value, the result is not only an enhanced level of service, but also a partnership focusing on responsibility, collaboration and …
Emergency Preparedness and Infectious Disease How far does your safety program reach? What scenarios are accounted for in your emergency preparedness planning? Have you considered solutions necessary to protect your employees and keep your business running? The presence of Ebola in America has shed light on an often overlooked element of emergency preparedness planning: viral outbreaks. This threat makes the daily efforts of managing employee safety and health more critical. And while the Ebola threat is …
Workplace Safety: Keys to Effective Training Attitudes toward safety and health training vary greatly from company to company. Some organizations value training and others do not invest in it beyond regulatory compliance. Where does your organization fall? Providing effective health, safety and environmental (HSE) training for employees ensures that they know how to work safely. Federal and state regulations require employees to receive certain safety training and to be informed about health and safety …
