1st Edition
Facility Manager's Guide to Security Protecting Your Assets
Covering everything required to build and manage a security system, Facility Manager's Guide to Security discusses the layout of the facility in order to provide security for workers, plants, processes, and products. The book covers distances and separation, fencing, access control, intrusion detection systems, pass key, key control systems, locks, hasps, and gates. It also explores more sophisticated systems such as closed circuit television, microwave transmitters, lasers, lighting, clear zone, and computer systems and control electronic systems. In addition, non-hardware aspects of security are examined, including security clearances and background checks, guards, rounds, shift work, training, and procedure development.
Written by a former defense department official with 30 years of experience in the defense sector, this valuable book explains all aspect s of facility security. Facility managers will discover useful strategies for managing security personnel, guards, guard dogs, rounds shift work, training, procedure development, and other non-hardware elements of a security program.
Security Systems
Facility Functions & Threats
Risk Assessment
Understanding the Facility's Assets
Knowledge of the Assets
The Risk Assessment Team
Labor
Capital
Material
Knowledge
Threats
Local or Nearby Incidents in the Past
Potential for Future Incidents
Deterrence
Risk Rating or Evaluation
The Dynamic Nature of Risk
Resources
Physical Separation: Fences, Barriers, Gates, Distance, Lighting
The First Line of Defense
Separation Distances
Barriers
Fence
Walls
Gates
Pedestrian Gates
Guardhouses
Building Elements & Explosion Behavior
Types of Construction
Frame
Cladding
Roofing
Location
Explosions
Mixed Areas
Openings in Buildings
Doors
Other Types of Personal Doors
Doors Other Than Personal Doors
Windows
Ventilation & Air Conditioning Openings
Miscellaneous Openings
Access Hardware: Mechanical Locks, Latches, Keys
Locks & Latches
Situations for Locking & Unlocking
Types of Door Locksets
Keys & Cylinders
The Door Closer
Electronic Access Hardware: Locks
Basic Electrical Principles
Electromagnetic Locks
Electric Strike
Electrified Builders' Hardware
Battery Operated Combination Locks
Electronic Lock Control: Giving Users Access
Keypad
Card Readers
Intercom Systems
Biometric Credential Verification
Highest Level Security Systems
Metal Detector
Other Devices to Protect from Intruders
Computerized Access Control
Database Options
Computers
Wiring for Door Signaling Systems
Control Stations
Intrusion Detection: Preventing Unauthorized Access
Intrusion Detection Systems
Response Time
Sensors
Tamper Protection
Duress Alarms
Fence Sensors
Data Transmission
Automatic Communication
Switching from Access to Secure Mode
Closed Circuit Television Systems: Who Is There & What Are They Doing?
Cameras
Monitors
Recorders
Multiplexers / Switchers
Internet Protocols
Eavesdropping & Voyeurism & What to Do About It
Creating the Eavesdropping Detection Inspection Program
Average Cost of Inspection
Additional Tests
Final Report
Important Extras
Counterespionage Is Not a Do-It-Yourself Project
Power Supply for Security System Devices
Single Line Diagram
Fire Alarm Systems
Main Power Supply
Emergency Power Supplies
Maintenance
Guards & Guard Forces
Number & Function of Guards
Uniforms
Firearms
Vehicles
Guardhouses
Communications
Rounds
Logbooks
Pay
Subcontracting for Private Guards
People: Personnel, Badges, Background Checks, Training, System Testing & Security Professional Certification
Emergency Response
Emergency Response Plan
Response Team
Drills
Readiness
Security Associations: Who Can You Turn To?
Biography
Robert N. Reid, P.E. (Author)