Assignment
Create a 11-13 power point slides (with speaker notes) in which you establish a critical incident and emergency management response plan for your organization, to include preparedness, prevention, response, and recovery to catastrophic events or significant security incidents. Include external relations and communications necessary to execute your plan. Provide the rationale and a preliminary budget for your recommendations.
Risk Assessment Content Checklist
GENERAL INFORMATION
1. Nature of Business/agency
2. Facility Name
3. Address
4. Survey Date
5. Hours of operation
6. Facility Contact Person
7. Phone Number
8. Fax number
9. Email
10. Environment
11. Survey conducted by
12. Surveyor's address
13. Surveyor's phone
14. Surveyor's email
COUNTRY (where the facility is located USA)
1. Political conditions
2. Crime rates
3. Personnel safety
4. Availability of labor
5. Economic conditions
6. Medical treatment availability
7. Public fire fighting availability
8. Public utilities
9. Public transportation
10. Earthquake susceptibility
11. Fire susceptibility
12. Tornado susceptibility
13. Severe weather susceptibility
COMMUNITY (neighborhood)
1. Crime rates
2. Aesthetic qualities
3. Public police protection
4. Fire protection
5. Emergency medical services
6. History of civil unrest
7. Graffiti/vandalism
PHYSICAL SECURITY
Facility Perimeter
1. Fencing
2. Landscaping
3. Parking
4. Employee parking are illumination
5. Visitor parking illumination
6. Employee parking area monitoring
7. Visitor parking area monitoring
8. Lighting
9. Vehicular traffic pattern
10. Trash removal
11. Protection from adjacent occupancies
12. Proper signage
Building
1. Description of building
2. Common walls with adjacent occupancies
3. Exterior door construction
4. Exterior door locks
5. Door lock operation
6. Exterior window construction
7. Window height above ground
8. Window security
9. Roof access restriction
10. Building exterior lighting
11. Shipping/receiving area monitoring
12. Emergency exit
13. Emergency exits unobstructed
14. Interior door construction
15. Interior wall construction
16. Antitheft systems/mechanisms
Access Control
1. Intrusion detection
2. Building entrances minimized
3. Employee entrance monitoring
4. Visitor/guest entrance monitoring
5. Interior door locks
6. Key control system
7. Key sign-out/assignment system
8. Keys accounted for
9. Key safeguards
10. Employee distinguishableness
11. Visitor/Guest supervision
12. Restricted access to sensitive/vulnerable areas
13. Computer/data storage restrictions
14. Key storage area restrictions
15. Mechanical/utility room restrictions
16. Telecommunications room restrictions
17. Mailroom restrictions
18. Executive office suite restrictions
19. Vendor access
20. Vault/safe security
21. Controlled substance security
22. Hazardous Material security
23. Cash/liquid asset protection
24. Proper signage to direct visitors
Alarm and Surveillance Systems
Describe the system and components
Fire Protection
1. Fire alarm system
2. Sprinkler system
3. Fire extinguishers
4. Fire suppression
5. Fire alarm system testing
6. Gas line protection
7. Electric power cord protection
8. Fire doors functional
9. Flammable material storage
10. Fire notification plan
11. Fire evacuation plan
12. Fire exits unobstructed
13. Fire exits secured from outside
14. In house fire brigade
15. Fire safety policy/procedures
16. Address prominently displayed
PERSONNEL SECURITY
1. Employee background investigations
2. Previous employer verification
3. Personnel records security
4. Exit interviews that employee termination
5. Organization property retrieval at termination
6. Employee/visitor safeguards against
7. Accidents
8. Theft
9. Assault
10. Workplace violence
INFORMATION SECURITY
1. Critical information identification
2. Critical information security
3. Information hardcopy destruction
4. Employee nondisclosure agreement in place
5. Intellectual property identification
6. Intellectual property security
7. Client and customer list protection
8. Access to computers restricted
9. Access to computer transmissions restricted
10. Laptop and personal computer security
11. E-mail access restrictions
12. Internet connection security
13. Electronic document destruction procedures
14. Software licensing
15. Prohibition against installation of outside software
16. Terminated employees immediately denied access
17. Disaster recovery plan
18. Duplicate data files maintained at remote location
19. Password security
20. Information security indoctrination and training
21. Cellular phone communication protection
INVESTIGATIONS, INTELLIGENCE, AND SECURITY
Background Investigations
1. Employees (new)
2. Employees (existing)
3. Vendors/contractors
4. Partnerships with other organizations
5. Security clearances
Incident Investigations
1. Investigation of any loss
2. Accidents
3. Safety hazards
4. Crime
5. Natural disasters
Intelligence
1. Competition counterintelligence
2. Criminal intelligence
3. Foreign travel intelligence
Reporting Procedures
1. Background investigations documentation
2. Background investigation confidentiality
3. Security activity log maintenance
4. Recording of incidents
5. Incident reported to proper manager and/or authority
6. Adherence to reporting procedures
OPERATIONS
1. Audit procedures
2. Employee locker/workstation inspections
3. Accounting function separation
4. Package control system
5. Opening time ambush controls
6. Closing time ambush controls
7. Receiving area security
8. Shipping area security
9. Delivery driver controls
10. Shipping/ receiving area separation
11. Equipment inventory
12. Contractor/vendor audits
13. Customer/guest/visitor service
POLICIES AND PROCEDURES
1. Mission statement
2. Vision statement
3. Organizational goals
4. Organizational values
5. Quality improvement initiatives
6. Employee code of conduct
7. Employee misconduct policies
8. Disciplinary procedures
9. Termination procedures
10. Search/inspection policies
11. Removal of organization property
12. Bomb threat procedures
13. Evacuation procedures
14. Severe weather procedures
15. Natural disaster procedures
16. Contraband detection
17. Chemical abuse policy
18. Drug testing policy
SECURITY INDOCTRINATION/TRAINING
1. Indoctrination for new employees
2. Training for existing employees
3. Executive protection
4. Foreign travel training
LIAISON ACTIVITIES
1. Contact with local police maintained
2. Contact the sheriff maintained
3. Contact with state police and/or highway patrol maintained
4. Contact with fire department maintained
5. Contact with appropriate federal agencies maintained
6. Articulation and/or collaboration with other security organizations.