Changes in the regulations for people to work in the security industry, since the publication of The Private Security Industry Act 2001 laid out in order to reduce criminality, raise standards and recognise quality service means anyone who is employed in the industry must hold an SIA Licence. This relates neatly back to how the level of training standards required by employees is carefully monitored.

The security industry’s major role is to ensure that everyone; in this case UK business, employees and residents, can live, work and socialise in an entirely safe environment. This objective is not achieved merely by providing individuals with brute force skills to enforce security by threat; expert training should in most cases eliminate the need for any form of physical intervention and at best form a barrier to protect personal/business security as a whole.

As well as scrutinising licence applications the SIA (Security Industry Authority) play an important role in ensuring that reputable training providers like Get-Licensed UK have a responsibility to supply the best possible tuition, which is not necessarily based on one-size-fits-all criteria. For example what sets Get-Licensed apart from many training providers is the scenario based teaching approach – don’t expect to spend all your training periods viewing slides or listening to hypothetical situations laid out in manuals.

All three of the roles listed above provide businesses with a multi-layered security strategy that access control systems alone might fail to pick up, and it’s this range of additional skills combined with health and safety initiatives that lead to a happy workforce and therefore increased productivity. Business or personal security incentives are no longer viewed as a ‘big brother’ initiative, in fact recent surveys show that the more secure employees or the general public feel the more likely they are to respond in a positive way to their jobs and how they interact with each other in public places or at major events.

Essentially, organisations that openly identify the need for security measures to protect assets and individuals are respected by their employees, and rather than seen as a negative, effective security generates a feeling of increased commitment providing the safety measures are consistently implemented.

This emotional response can only be achieved when the security teams are viewed as a core part of the organisation rather than an ‘add-on’ prevention effort. In short the crucial element here is the initial training and it’s easy to appreciate from this brief article how the role of the security industry has developed over recent year’s in-line with the HR and productivity objectives of organisations that recognise the need for increased security measures.

If you feel that you have the ability to join the crack team of experts who are working to protect the safety and security of big business, its core personnel or the general public, log on to Get-Licensed and take a look at some of the training options available. With enough concentrated effort intrusions on personal information and security could well become a thing of the past.