Standards and Assurance
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Corporate clients, tenders and insurers increasingly ask: "Which standards do you follow? Show us." A manager needs to know what the main security and resilience standards are, what each one actually covers, how to write them into a contract in a way that can be checked, and how to audit against them. A manager also needs to know their limits: a certificate on the wall does not prove that guards on a night shift are doing their job.
Focus: know the main standards and qualifications by name and purpose, use them to set clear and checkable requirements, and assure performance by evidence, not paperwork.
Learning objectives
- Explain how a standard differs from a law and from a contract.
- Describe the plan, do, check, act cycle of a management-system standard.
- Say what each of the main standards covers: ISO 18788, ISO 31000, ISO 22301, ISO 22320, ISO 22341 and EN 17483.
- Describe the role of national occupational standards for security staff in India and Australia, and of a guideline on selecting and training security officers.
- Tell a "requirements" standard from a "guidelines" standard, and what a certificate does and does not prove.
- Use standards in contracts and tenders.
- Plan and run an assurance audit, and follow up its findings.
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