Training in Perpetuity

Perpetuity Training – a member of the Perpetuity Group of Companies that numbers research contractor Perpetuity Research and Consultancy International among its ranks – offers a wide range of courses specially designed to deal with some of the major problems facing today's security managers. All of the courses draw upon an extensive experience of research, consultancy and practical know-how, and all are fully certified. But enough of the sales patter!

Courses sit under four broad groupings, namely security and risk management, the prevention and management of violence, business skills and management procedures and IT. The specific courses are aimed at security professionals and practitioners working in schools and Local Education Authorities, hospitals and NHS Trusts, Local Authorities, the police and armed services, business, retail and overseas organisations.

Improving your business skills
The use of organisational policies, plans and procedures is a vital element of good security practice, yet all-too-few security professionals know how to create and use them to the best advantage. The Creating Successful Policies, Plans and Procedures course runs over one day (in both July and November), and shows security managers how they might revitalise organisational security while maximising compliance.

If you want to ensure that your vision of corporate security is communicated and correctly implemented throughout your organisation then this is your course. You can learn how to write clear and effective security manuals, and manage the introduction of any new protection measures.

In the same strand, Continuity and Contingency Planning is a two-day course leading to a practical exercise, benefiting all managers involved in designing measures to ensure that their department or organisation can continue to function should a potentially damaging event occur. The course covers continuity and contingency in context, conducting a business impact analysis, threat and risk assessments and designing and writing plans. The second day comprises a series of useful case studies.

The Continuity and Contingency Planning course runs on 27-28 April, or from 17-18 August.

The ability to apprehend, arrest and process offenders can be crucial in many environments. Those processes, however, must be effectively conducted and legally correct. The How to Apprehend, Arrest and Process Offenders is a one-day course (which runs in May and October) and involves roll playing scenarios which demonstrate the correct procedures.

This course covers all you need to know, with sections on the legal powers you and members of your security team have to apprehend and arrest a given offender, when and how to confront wrong-doers, evidence handling and what the police service will expect from you.

Managing stress in the workplace is now a Health and Safety Executive requirement. With workplace stress affecting five million employees and costing between £3.7 billion and £3.8 billion each year, it's a significant problem that all responsible employers have a duty to address.

What will you learn by enrolling on the Perpetuity course entitled Managing Stress in the Workplace? How to design-out stress through effective policies, procedures and environmental measures, how to reduce and cope with stress and get to grips with all the latest legislation. Possible hazards are identified, and practical advice and guidance offered based on Best Practice. This course runs in June and October.

The use of organisational policies, plans and procedures is a vital element of good security practice, yet few security professionals know how to create and use them to the best advantage

The increasing amount of information that may be obtained on organisations and individuals whether legitimately or illegitimately represents both an opportunity and a threat. Collected in the proper fashion, intelligence will enhance commercial advantage. Improperly gathered and that information could be extremely damaging for your organisation, even leading to prosecution. What security and IT managers who protect commercial intelligence need to know is the nature of competitive intelligence, how it's obtained and how you might increase the security of your information.

The one-day course entitled Effective Use of Competitive Intelligence runs at the end of May and again in early November, reviewing the initial risk assessment, intelligence gathering and the law and competitive intelligence and data hacking. The Effective Management of E-Mail Abuse is a sister course that runs in October.

Security and Risk Management
Conducting a security survey is of course an essential skill for security managers. Running under the Security and Risk Management strand of general courses, the three-day course How to Carry Out Security Surveys will guide you through the important stages, from initial planning to final report.

On Day One, students will look at security surveys in context, the six essential stages of a security survey, preliminary research, policies, plans and procedures, site topography, perimeter protection and building protection. Day Two covers electronic security systems, security guarding, risk assessment and situational crime prevention.

The final day consists of a site visit and security survey exercise, after which there'll be presentations and a debrief. If you want to enrol on this course, it runs at the tail end of July and November.

In a similar vein, How to Conduct Risk Assessments will help you to understand the principles, benefits and effective use of risk assessments. The course shows risk and security managers how to measure risk, how to document your risk assessment and how to use your assessment to reduce and manage risk. This one-day course is offered in August.

Looking at niche sectors
The aim of Perpetuity's Preventing Shop Theft course is to examine the scale and scope of shop theft, why and how it occurs and the ways in which it might be prevented. Delegates will learn all about the cost of theft and its hidden impact, why thieves choose to steal from your business, how they steal and then sell goods on and what thieves think about security (ie what systems work and which ones perhaps don't in their view).