Good day, welcome to safety and security training of physical safety and security training. The difference being on one side of the physical is the stuff you can touch the locks the walls, the windows, the doors, the buildings, the travel the staff. On the other side, you have the cyber the IT staff, it's harder to touch and obviously you can touch laptops, and that's where the cyber and physical start to meet and might be an area where we have some not controller but responsibility for for and that's something we will be discussing. There is an overlap there should be an overlap between cyber and physical. And there should be a lot of interaction if you have for instance, a security manager for the cyber side who is very experienced, highly trained and very smart and the it stuff and the physical stuff. It's very hard to get someone who can do both jobs well, but it happens.

But obviously you need knowledge of both. And you need to understand how both react simple example being you lose laptop, laptop, a lot of value. It's not something physical is physical concern. Is it lost? what circumstances? Was it last?

Was it actually stolen? Or did the member of staff decide that he or she liked the laptop and wanted to keep it? And that happens a lot at the end of projects, for instance, they tend to go missing quite considerably interconnected in there you have the control of the laptop, how was it carried, how secure was it was the practices How can you improve in those practices in looking at logging in password protection, encryption of the data, lots of this stuff is physical stuff. And you're then looking at training staff or briefing them up making them aware, backing up their data. And then you go into the realms more of the cyber stuff. But all those good physical applications and best practices, and so we're, it's a it's a varied, varied subject.

There's a lot to it. And I'm just gonna, this is a brief introduction of what we're going to cover. First of all, one, the introduction, that's this. Obviously, this is a new sort of redeveloped version of the cost of the content is the same. So if you've, you've already paid for it, the content is exactly the same. What I'm trying to do for your benefit, and also mine is to improve the delivery.

So I've simplified the slides not not again, the content, the content, same there's a lot of words in this and there's a lot to read up on. But the slides itself are less cluttered I believe, and I'm hoping that the actual video delivery is improved. Because you're worth it, you need, you need something better. And video delivery is not really my strong point. The delivery of the security for instance, is so I'm more of an expert in security, physical security and safety, and the video stuff and everything that goes online is not really my core area of expertise. So I'm learning as I go along.

So you have to forgive me for redeveloping, at least that's what I'm doing I'm I've realized that some of the some of the lessons could be improved on as far as delivery goes, and that's what I'm doing here. So let's go through the course introduction, the foundations. Now you see that core reading one, core reading two, core reading three, the threat assessment core reading for day to day activities. That means that's the critical stuff. It's all pretty critical. You can't really do physical security without any one of these components that you see in front of But this is the stuff you have to get to know the core reading stuff.

So that's the introduction level, we'll go through the threat assessment, the threat list, measuring and prioritizing the threats. And you see that that central part is all about the threats. And that's very important as security managers, security directors, if we don't understand what the threats are, then we can't build a very good security model. And that sort of thing. So as an example, if I work in New York City, the threats could be quite varied, ranging from criminal down through to terrorism. There may be a lot less likelihood that terrorism is going to happen because there's lots of activities going on out there, the FBI and all the various intelligence and security agencies to try and stop that.

So day to day focus maybe on criminal activity stop criminals get in the buildings doctor will steal laptops, But there will also be a focus on on terrorism. But a larger percent of my day will be looking at crime. I may also be concerned about insider threats and active shooters. But I have to understand what the variations of threats are. That's why it's an important part of the introduction level. Once you understand it, then you can build your security model around what you think the threats are, what the priorities are, and what their likelihood on a day to day basis, they are to affect the safety of your staff, your assets, your business continuity, and your reputation.

So that's why threats are part of the introduction level. And my aim is to put together an intermediate level very soon. They come as the remaining lessons and they'll be more of an advanced course later on, which I've yet to develop because it gets physical security needs physical activity. So you need to get out there you can understand the knowledge we is what this is all about. But you need to get out there and actually see what a latke see what a door is, maybe look at what the threats are out in the streets. So that's the top part of the introduction level is this course and some of the courses are shorter, some of them are longer.

In fact, section for the threat assessment is so long, it's in two parts, what I've tried to do is get as much detail in there as possible. And I had found out to break into two parts for my own sanity, and also for yours, you can stop and have coffee, which of course you can do anytime. Each one of these comes with a copy of the course content. What you see on the slide will be provided as a handout. What you won't get apart from on the video is what what I've described in the background. So my my experiences and what I aim to do is to get you to look through the slides through the handouts and I will talk around like experiences, my findings and add in more detail.

So the videos are important handout has all the basic details you see on the slide. All my talking over it is based on what I've learned for the past 20 years of doing physical security. So that's the course. So, I mentioned the threats just as an introduction, because like I said, we're going to be doing in more detail. This is the baseline threat list that I look at when I go to a country or I go to an office location. And that soon, it's gonna say that's in priority order.

It's not really because it depends on the area depends on the town. It depends on the country. Depends on the region, but you're saying those three, the top three on the left road traffic, fire safety, health are usually the biggest concern safety in Europe, North America, for instance, may go down a bit on the priority list because there are checks and balances in place to make sure that homes and offices and hotels are a lot safer than they used to be as far as fire goes. And also that includes the evacuation, and fire doors, paint on the walls, the building structure, beds, bedding curtains, and everything in the rooms in the hotel itself are much more fire resistant. Whereas the further you travel in Africa, for instance, the Middle East in some areas, more developing countries, those standards aren't quite the same. So that will go higher up in the in the on the list.

And just an example, I went to Bangladesh years ago and fire was of a great concern, because a lot of fire services very good and sometimes the road traffic is variable. And it stops the fire service getting to a fire quickly. Often, if it's a big fire, there's not enough fire crews to go around. And I was reading in the news just a couple of days ago that 10,000 people were displaced because of a fire in a poor area of Dhaka in Bangladesh. So that shows you how quickly fire can travel through a building and then from building to building. And but also you have to look not just at the fire itself, not just at the location, you have to look at the firefighting capabilities that they have in in in an office for instance, are the staff trained a lot of places I go to have fire extinguishers, staff don't know what to do with them.

They're just there to hold the door open. A lot of places I've been to have fire sprinklers, sprinklers so and they don't work. They're not plugged into the water system and they've been up there for five years and no one's bothered to test them and smoke detectors. Are they actually working the way we want in each room? But do they work? Have they been tested whose responsibility?

So the whole purpose behind this is to develop your thinking, don't just look in a room see a fire extinguisher see a smoke detector. But I start asking the questions whose responsibility on a weekly basis is to check these? If something's wrong with them? Whom do they report to to get it fixed? Do the staff know what to do if the smoke detector goes off? Do the do the staff know how to use the fire extinguishers?

Do the staff know the number to call the fire service and it may be basics. But don't ever ever take anything for granted when you're dealing with staff safety. So these are the likely threats. They'll vary. In one of my other courses, we look at conflict words conflict, conflict conflict on the right hand column near down near the bottom. That's it Word potential potential anywhere in the world.

But in South Sudan, for instance, when I went there, we looked at conflict. And it was, it was rated low. But someone pointed out to me No, no, there's a lot of capital theft that causes conflict. And it was something I've never not not come from South I've never known it was a particular problem. And it's a particular problem for the villages that are involved in it. But what also happens is the fighting between villages that occurs due to capital theft, shuts down roads, and it puts your staff potentially at rest when they want to travel from A to B.

So that conflict has its own little subheadings. In South Sudan, its capital. There's sometimes clan fighting in other in other locations. There's 1001 different things. So this is a very basic list, but this is a good start point a baseline to go. Okay.

These are the potentials Some may be higher in your country than others. Some may be non existent in your country, some may be. Anyway, I'm going to cover this in a bit more detail. So I'm going into too much detail as far as an introduction, the likely threats, have a look at them and start to think about them as far as your location. So I've mentioned likely threats to your staff, your assets, business comes to your continuity and reputation. So what does all that fit together?

Well, obviously, you have to look after your staff. That includes yourself, that includes your bosses that includes everyone around you, and you're looking at the safety and security. So safety is related to reducing the chance of unintentional harm or loss, natural disasters, if you live in an earthquake zone. For instance, if you're in Nepal, Bangladesh, Northern India, Pakistan, and across Indonesia and around the huge chances for earthquake that can happen just like that. So you have to take into account fact, it, it doesn't look like a day to day risk. So it's not as obvious as a road traffic accident because, you know, there's, there's traffic out there, you know, there's accidents.

An earthquake is something you put to the back of your mind. But your staff have to be ready for it. Your building has to be ready for it. You have to be ready for it. You have to have stuff saved in the office in case you're trapped. Because you have to look at the bigger picture.

It's not just a rumbling of the ground, your building could collapse because many buildings aren't earthquake resistant. When you get outside, again, Western Europe and North America. You could be trapped in there, the stairs could collapse. So you need food and water for a couple of days. What are your staff going to do if they're trapped in the office for two days? And you're going to wash What about toilet facilities?

So you have to look at is there a toilet? in your room? Sorry, in your office space? Is there a toilet nearby It's important because you don't really want to be peeing in a corner. But again, if you have to have to. So natural disasters, of course, that also includes cyclones and hurricanes, tsunamis and everything else that comes with it.

Rainy seasons in some countries, Africa, your rainy seasons, that shut down roads and wash roads away and make it very, very difficult. So, safety and security can change from a day to day basis on a season to season basis. And if you're in a high threat location, like Afghanistan, France, then you you're going to get a mix of all that on a very daily basis. So you have to constantly be reviewing your physical security, reviewing your threats, day to day today in lower threat countries. And we'll talk we're going to talk about threat levels as well. So don't get too excited.

I'm talking about stuff that we haven't discussed yet. And then you may do that on more of a weekly basis. Much The basis even a yearly basis, but your safety, going back to that point natural disasters, fire accidents and disease or health. And that also includes says their actions in the workplace or when traveling so if they fall down stairs, there's not very good lighting on stairs. It's a problem. So you want to improve the lighting when you're traveling.

Road accidents are very common, as I said, probably the most likely thing anywhere in the world to happen. And so what do you do if there's an accident, whether staffed or if there's an accident, do their phones or phone networks where they're likely to be or whether they're traveling through to the first aid kits in the vehicles, fire extinguishers, spare tire spare equipment, so they know how to use it. It's great providing first aid kits, but if staff don't know how to use it, then they won't use it or though they'll be very reluctant to use it. And also is the first aid kit, the correct first step Because no point having a couple of clusters band aids in a car when there's likely to be 60 mile an hour accidents. So you're talking about large words large caches, lots of blood. So you want some bigger stuff, heavier, heavy duty first aid kits in the vehicles to look after what is likely to happen.

And security. Security relates to reducing the chances of intentional harm or loss from crime, for instance, obviously, some rubs in the street, they intend to do it if there's a war, there's some intent there, conflict, and also the big one in there that's dropped off the list of terrorism. Terrorists obviously intend to do what they want to do. And so reducing the threat from them is a security issue. And that's the breakdown safety and security just just for some forward reading. So we're gonna look at threat assessments, how to produce them, that should be the first thing you do every day.

What are the threats? How are they changing now Gonna go through some crisis or Incident Management Planning. Crisis Management is often at the home office levels. An incident dealing with an incident that could become a crisis is usually Delta in the field or the in the office location, day to day duties of a security manager. That's extremely important. Once you've got that cycle going, like first thing in the morning, you read your security information or you read the news, find out what's going on the threats increasing or decreasing in your areas of interest.

And then you can start managing guards, staff coming and going, reports of loss of depth of laptops, and so on and so forth. This provides a baseline standard for assessing the threats and your vulnerability levels. So hopefully it opened some doors to you to go we're actually a little bit vulnerable when staff travel because we don't provide first aid kits. They don't know what to do. They've got no instructions. To call you if there's an accident.

And you don't know, when they leave the office when they're expected to get to the other town four hours later, there's no sort of check in rules or standards. So hopefully I'll open some doors about what you do for that. And the more advanced course will be helping you look at some more of your vulnerabilities of your staff, your office locations, your travel, and everything else. So there are some other courses which you may want to do and i i hate sort of trying to not trying to sell these on trying to say is there are some other complementary courses that's the word for it complimentary intelligence analysis, which helps you which is aimed at security managers and helps you better understand where the information comes from, what information you can use and how you can, how you can use that information to justify some requests for more security and more safety measures.

Putting together close protection course which is useful again, if you've got traveling staff, and you need to better protect them. It also gives you an idea how to reduce lots of the risk, human, maybe not so relevant to the physical security but as security manager depending where you are in the world, you will want to speak to people, your neighbors, security providers, people on the streets about what's going on. And that will better develop your skills and gathering information from human sources. And of course, I'm going to be producing physical security advanced course which takes a fair bit of time because a whole lot of detail in it, but I'm, I'm getting that. I'm getting that quickly because I've developed my video skill powers. So there is a lot to learn on this course.

Lesson length will vary, some will be shorter as as Some are split into two lessons because they're huge. It takes a whole lot of talking. And I split them into two to pretty much give myself a breather, but also so that you can read back before you go into the next states. And it's going to provide you with a baseline knowledge. If you're a security manager, then get out of practice some of it if you're not a security manager, look around your home. Look at your threats.

Look at what's arrayed against you and your family practice on them. What do you do with your vehicle when you travel? Do you take any additional precautions. So put into practice this knowledge and the office or if you don't have an office, to secure and to be safer yet, then like I said, practice at home, just whatever wherever you are, wherever you're doing. Practice the noise that I'm going To provide. And that's pretty much it.

So what we're going to do is move on to lesson two, which is the foundations, which is the building blocks for physical security. A lot of it is pretty dry, it's knowledge. So take what was delivered, take it away, read it, apply it in wherever scenario you are in the world, and I hope you enjoy it. Thanks very much for your time. It's been as always a great pleasure.