Managing Air Cargo Security
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This is a knowledge course. It is not AVSEC training and is not recognised by any aviation security authority.
A freight company with a large cargo shed at Lakeside Airport wants to hand its whole security function to your agency. Its director says, "You take the gates, the docks and the cargo checks. You sign for the cargo at night. If something goes missing, you are responsible. One invoice, one company to blame."
It sounds like growth. Read it again. He has asked you to guard his building. He has also asked you to apply security controls to air cargo, and to take custody of goods worth many times your yearly fee. The first is your trade. The second may be reserved by law for his own staff. The third could close your company after one bad night.
Focus: at a cargo site, be exact about three things: what the approved company must do itself, what your agency does under its programme, and what you are liable for.
This module is general knowledge. It is not legal advice.
Learning objectives
- Describe what an approved cargo company must do under its status, in public outline.
- Place a guarding agency correctly under that company's security programme.
- Separate guarding premises from applying security controls and from taking custody of cargo.
- Map the kinds of liability at a cargo site and limit them in the contract.
- Add cargo crime to the theft and fraud programme you learnt in module M9 (Theft and Fraud Prevention Programme).
- Report to a cargo client in a way that helps both sides.
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