UK Security – News – Page 24

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Scarcely a week goes by without news of yet another blaze raging at a recycling or waste plant.

Costing the Fire Service and taxpayer a fortune and disrupting the lives of nearby residents, recycling plant fires are often extremely unpredictable and difficult to contain owing to the flammability of materials like timber and paper.

Locals often have to close windows and doors and remain in their homes for the duration of the fires, which typically burn for several days. Infernos and plumes of smoke can also threaten infrastructure such as buildings, roads and railways in high winds.

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Dr David Gold, a chartered safety and health practitioner and founder of Gold-Knecht Associates, wrote the following article for our sister site, SHP Online:

Security guards, be they employees or persons employed by a contracted security service, have important responsibilities to fulfill.

A responsible security guard is trained and actively ensures that lives and property are protected from natural or human events, be they accidental or malicious.

Similar to the role of the safety and health practitioner, the security should have the training (resulting in the knowledge and skills) and experience to prevent incidents from occurring as well as the competencies to intervene if an incident should occur.

Thus the security guard must be able to continually focus on prevention, protection and emergency intervention in dealing with the protection of lives and property.

Read the full article on SHP Online¹

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IFSEC and FIREX 2014 is launching live-event broadcasting channels at London s ExCeL between 17-19 June.

Featuring live interviews with major figures from the fire and security sectors IFSEC TV, which is sponsored by Xtralis, and FIREX TV, whose sponsor is C-TEC, will broadcast via multiple large screens and plasmas strategically located around the exhibition halls.

Live television camera crews will roam the show floor interviewing visitors, speakers and exhibitors.

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David Evans, CEO of Global Aware International, is discussing The business case for counter terror at IFSEC International 2014 one of numerous counter terror talks at the show

Register your interest to visit IFSEC 2014 now²

When: 17-19 June 2014
Where: ExCeL, London

Counter-terrorism strategy has undergone a remarkable development in the early years of the 21st century.

Contrasting concepts and structures have been applied in different jurisdictions. Interestingly, the last 18 months has seen increasing convergence between various strategic models.

Encouragingly for the UK, the emerging consensus closely resembles the UK structure hence the strong international appetite to learn about UK counter-terrorist strategy and apply it as appropriate to local contexts.

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An alarm raised by a lone worker or other vulnerable person is a cry for help for a response.

It is in the ARC alarm receiving centre that the response is organised and without it the device or app which initiates the alarm is of limited value.

The aim of this article is to shed some light on ARCs and their increasing importance in protecting lone workers and other vulnerable people.

Expanding applications

Estimates put the number of Lone Workers in the UK at around 6 million.

What started in the UK some 10 years ago as a service for them and their employers has expanded to include other vulnerable people.

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References

1. ^{^} Read the full article on SHP Online (www.shponline.co.uk)
2. ^{^} Register for TFM&A 2015 (www.ifsec.co.uk)

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