Physical Security and Safety

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community SurveyS

JARRED BALL

Being a successful security manager involves more than just under-

standing your facility’s security issues. It is realizing how the larger

community around you affects your facility and the role your facil-

ity plays in the overall community’s security and functionality.

Everything in the community is interdependent. For example, a fac-

tory is dependent on the power grid, water system, and transportation

infrastructure of the surrounding community. If one or more of these

sectors are destroyed or disrupted, the factory will either stop opera-

tions or have them severely impacted. Community risk assessment

is a critical part of an overall security/mitigation plan for any secu-

rity manager. Community risk assessments ...