While the duties undertaken by Door Supervisors may seem to be routine, their duties are in actual fact far from routine. Door Supervisors are expected to do a lot of behind the scenes activity to ensure the security operations for the licensed premises maintain the required security and safety expectations. These behind the scenes activities range from conducting risk assessments through to ensuring that patrons of the licensed premises are not placing themselves or others at risk. Essentially, Door Supervisors have to exercise their discretion and continually make decisions which are going to enhance the level of security of the licensed premises. The ability of Door Supervisors to undertake these duties is enhanced by the detailed SIA training that they receive in the endeavours to become a Door Supervisor.

Those operating as a Door Supervisor need to ensure that they remain proficient and knowledgeable of the laws and best practices. The security industry is an ever changing environment with new challenges arising every day, by maintaining a regime of continual professional development, Door Supervisors can be assured that they have the knowledge and skills to operate at their full potential. It is when Door Supervisors fail to maintain their proficiencies in the workplace that they will be seen as unprofessional and essentially this will become a major vocational hurdle for any Door Supervisor who fails to stay up to date on the latest best practice and laws which affect them within the workplace.  

The SIA Door Supervisors licence is just the beginning of the journey for Door Supervisors employed within the security industry. To maintain the pace of keeping up with the rapidly evolving and dynamic security industry, Door Supervisors need to ensure that they take the opportunity to constantly undertake continuing professional development so that they can maintain a high degree of knowledge and professionalism within the workplace. By failing to undertake further training Door Supervisors will find that they have diminished competencies to undertake their duties efficiently and appropriately which will adversely affect their level of professionalism within the industry.