🛡️ Physical Security & Lone Working

Protect people, premises and assets — layered access control, anti-tailgating and ID badges, visitor and contractor handling, clean-desk discipline, reporting suspicious activity, lone-worker risk assessment and check-in procedures, conflict de-escalation, workplace-violence prevention and travel security. This is physical security, not cyber security. The course is organized into 7 modules, ending with a final exam (pass mark 80%). It is free awareness-level training designed for anyone who needs a practical, working understanding of the topic.

What you'll learn

• Defence in depth & layered access control
• ID badges, visitors & contractor control
• Clean desk, asset control & reporting suspicious activity
• Lone working — risk assessment, check-in & escalation
• Conflict de-escalation & workplace-violence prevention
• Assessing security risk & the threat picture
• Travel security — before, during & after a trip

Learning objectives

• Explain defence-in-depth and apply layered access control; refuse tailgating and piggybacking
• Wear, display and challenge ID badges; sign visitors and contractors in, out and escort them
• Keep a clean desk and clean screen; control keys, assets and confidential documents
• Recognise and report suspicious behaviour, items and vehicles using the HOT/observe-and-report approach
• Carry out and follow a lone-worker risk assessment with check-in and escalation procedures (HSE INDG73)
• Use conflict de-escalation, recognise early warning signs and prevent workplace violence
• Plan and apply basic travel-security habits before, during and after a trip