How did they measure security at the site without conducting a full assessment?
What can one anticipate from a security risk assessment? To best answer this million-dollar question, it helps to first highlight what one should NOT expect from the Risk Assessment. We don’t recommend conducting the Security Risk Assessment with your local Security Company or Security Provider because they don’t provide a full Security Risk Assessment; instead, they offer a Product Assessment.
This is often provided for free
This is done at a very minimal rate. This phenomenon occurs because it’s simply a sales tactic to increase sales, and the salesman’s earnings are directly tied to what the end user buys or subscribes to. There’s a lack of thorough research into options, and the security plan is essentially a list from the salesman’s inventory. Furthermore, the assessment phase’s actual findings do not influence these predetermined recommendations. The grading method, which is actually a direct overflow from Health & Safety, is inaccurate. Authorities rate an area of the site as low to high risk based on the possibility of a crime occurring.
The independent assessor
Focuses on the opportunity for a crime to occur and uses this methodology to analyze the property at various levels. There is also no quick checklist for conducting a Security Risk Assessment. How did they measure security at the site without conducting a full assessment? On what foundation was security and the planning thereof laid? As security risk assessors, our job is not to give up. We have to keep educating and convincing those in leadership positions, CEOs and MDs, regarding the importance of commissioning regular independent security risk assessments. It is difficult to change existing perceptions, but this is the challenge we need to face. Not one company has been able to show me their risk assessment report in the past 19 years. Some companies had even confused an occupational health and safety report for a security risk assessment.
