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Facility Security Officer (FSO) Training Course

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11 Nov - 15 Nov, 2024Live Online5 Days$2050Register
22 Dec - 26 Dec, 2024Live Online5 Days$2050Register
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25 Nov - 29 Nov, 2024Berlin5 Days$5125Register
15 Dec - 19 Dec, 2024Doha5 Days$4345Register

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Course Overview

Who is a facility security officer?

A facility security officer (FSO) is responsible for maintaining security in their organisation’s facilities. In addition, a facility security officer is also responsible for ensuring a secure environment for employees, vendors, and company visitors.

Why is facility security officer training important?

Facility security is the implementation of security measures towards the protection of the organisation’s physical location and hardware, such as visitor control, inventory control, and access control. Personnel needs to be properly trained to understand the nuances of facility security and prevent the organization from any mishappenings.

This Zoe training course empowers you with an in-depth scope of the role and responsibilities of the facility security officer. This course also borders on the crucial aspect of facility security maintenance, providing you with the necessary expertise and skills to effectively manage security in your organisation.

 Course Objectives

The crucial objective of this training course by Zoe Talent Solutions is to provide professionals with:

  • A thorough understanding of all aspects of facility security maintenance
  • The required expertise and skills to train other aspiring Facility security officers
  • A comprehensive understanding of important concepts and aspects relating to facility security maintenance and complete clarity on when to use each facility security strategy.
  • The necessary expertise and skills to effectively secure an organisation’s facility
  • A complete understanding of the strategies that can be used to secure a facility, such as security personnel and technology

Training Methodology

All courses at the Zoe talent solution are facilitated by professionals from the relevant fields. This course would adopt the two-way participation approach as it combines self-paced classroom sessions, group activities, projects, and role-plays as an integral part of the training.

This distinct approach to training by Zoe Talent Solutions is called the Do–Review–Learn–Apply Model.

 Organisational Benefits

Professionals undertaking this course from Zoe Talent Solutions will benefit their organisations in the following ways:

  • A secure environment for the organisation’s facilities that are managed by trained and skilled professionals
  • Regular training of other employees on the advanced method of securing the organisation’s facilities
  • Application of effective and new methods of security to ensure optimum safety of the organisation’s facilities
  • Compliance with laws and regulations on the security of an organisation’s facilities
  • Trained professionals have detailed assessment and monitoring of security risks, vulnerability, and threats in the organisation
  • Introduction of new technology such as drones, artificial intelligence, augmented reality, and robotics for the optimal security of an organisation’s facilities

Personal Benefits

Upon completion of this training course, professionals will derive benefits in the following ways:

  • Increased understanding of facility security maintenance necessary to work efficiently and safely as a facility security officer
  • Increased expertise and training to be able to identify correct initial actions, lead a security team, and take tactical command in the event of a security breach of their facility
  • Comprehensive clarity on how to effectively analyse risk based on available threat assessments, history, and intelligence information
  • Awareness and understanding of ways to identify current security threats and patterns in an organisation’s facilities
  • A complete understanding of the strategies that can be used to secure a facility, such as security and technology
  • The necessary expertise and knowledge to be able to train other aspiring faculty security officers
  • Detailed knowledge and understanding of the component of facility securing, ranging from access control, fire detection and suppression and emergency-response planning
  • A complete understanding of the various facility security types of equipment, such as alarm systems, locks, high-security doors and security fences and their uses

Who Should Attend?

  • Senior management officers involved in the organisation’s facility security
  • Facility security officers, industrial security representatives, security guards, security supervisors, and other staff members responsible for securing the organisation’s facility
  • Legal and compliance officers in charge of ensuring that laws and regulations relating to securing the organisation’s facility are adhered to
  • Any professional in the security industry interested in building a career in facility security management

Course Outline

This training course by Zoe Talent Solutions covers all the relevant topics and aspects one needs to learn to be a certified facility security officer.

Module 1: Overview of Facility Security

  • Concept and overview
  • Importance of securing an organisation’s facility

Module 2: Components of Facility Security

  • Access control, or protection against entry by unauthorised persons,
  • Facilitating access for authorised visitors
  • Restricting access for unauthorised persons
  • Preventing removal of property by unauthorised persons
  • Preventing the introduction of unauthorised properties
  • Fire detection and suppression
  • Emergency-response planning

Module 3: Facility Security Strategies

  • Security risk analysis
  • Identify the assets
  • Identify the threats and determine the threat levels
  • Assess the likelihood
  • Estimate the potential impact
  • Use of technology, procedure, and equipment.
  • Deployment of personnel

Module 4: Types of Facility Security Equipment and their Maintenance

  • Alarm systems
  • CCTV
  • Industrial high-security door and lock systems
  • Cinder block or steel full-height walls and enclosed ceiling systems

Module 5: Common Physical Security Vulnerabilities

  • Doors and windows
  • Bulk and external storage areas
  • Drop ceilings and roof construction
  • Common access keys
  • Offsite storage
  • Wall construction
  • Combination locks and retail grade padlocks

Module 6: Duties of a Facility Security Officer

  • Assessment of security risks, vulnerability, and threats
  • The operation, calibrating, and testing of security equipment and systems
  • Security monitoring and administration, including audits, routine inspections, and record-keeping
  • Identifying weapons and improvised explosive devices

Module 7: Fundamental Responsibilities of a Facility Security Officer

  • Facility security maintenance
  • Company compliance
  • Document control
  • Personnel clearances
  • Education and security awareness for cleared personnel:
  • Security planning and standard operating procedures (SOPs)
  • Arrests and detentions
  • Security reporting
  • Emergency Communications System (ECS)

Module 8: Emerging Security Trends in Facilities

  • Data security
  • IoT & remote monitoring
  • Drone technologies
  • Artificial intelligence, augmented reality, and robotics for access
  • AI-based facilities maintenance

Module 9: Facility Security Best Practices

  • Create the right security culture in the organisation
  • A risk-based approach to physical security
  • Establishing a physical security plan

Module 10: Legal and Compliance Aspects of Security

  • Facility security and privacy laws and regulations
  • Private Security and Investigative Services Act (PSISA)
  • Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA)
  • Fire code
  • Security compliance
  • Meaning
  • Importance
  • Benefits
  • Tools

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