Security & Resilience Dispatches

How to Design and Facilitate a Hostile Environment Training Course

When designing a Hostile Environment Training Course, it’s important to clarify, first, what is meant by a “hostile environment.” A hostile environment can refer to a variety of situations, including workplace harassment, discrimination, and bullying. It can also refer to situations where individuals may face physical threats or danger, such as in a war zone or during a natural disaster. When designing a hostile environment training course, it’s important to Read more…

By Marshal, ago

Why you are potentially damaging your company’s reputation by marketing on social media.

Social media wasn’t designed to market Safety, Security & Risk Management services but, in the absence of an alternative, companies will use those channels because of the perceived reach, but will often create content that attempts to engage an [inappropriate] audience in a way that may negatively impact their reputation. Safety, Security & Risk Management companies contain experts in their respective fields. They are not digital marketing agencies. The larger Read more…

By Marshal, ago

What happens when the Police don’t do their job?

For all of Marshal’s focus on “global” safety and security risk at the corporate level, this “local level” incident as described by BBC News in this – frankly horrifying – article, is also worth sharing, not just because of the appalling attacks by utter scum, ganging up on defenseless children – with the purpose of sharing it on social media to further humiliate the victim! – but also because of the headline: “If the Police Read more…

By Marshal, ago

Stop Losing Talent: How to Streamline Hiring Amid ‘Contract Award’ Uncertainty

With all the effort that may go into creating and editing a resume, writing a cover letter, and organizing additional documentation to prove they are sufficiently trained, qualified and licensed to operate, many potential candidates for possible vacancies may be put off applying for a role that is “contingent upon contract award“, knowing that the opportunity doesn’t actually exist at that time. It adds another level of chance to the Read more…

By Marshal, ago

How a remote-access Talent Pool for security manpower can reduce your operational anxiety!

“Looking for 3 Tier 1 Executive Protection Specialists with passports for a 1 week effort in Europe starting 03 Sept. Please contact me if you are interested, with resume.” This was posted on LinkedIn recently. They have got 5 days to turn this around and deploy people on task!  Imagine the response though. If this post generates 100 applications, how long will it take to review them all; identify who is Read more…

By Marshal, ago

What does “quality private security services” mean, exactly?

Chief executives look to purchasing and supply management to control costs and manage risks by removing vulnerabilities in the value chain. These are no less important when buying security. One of the important messages is that procurement is not an isolated activity within the organisation and when it comes to security many representatives should be brought together to help inform the buying decision. For example, facilities management are often linked Read more…

By Marshal, ago

How to improve the productivity- and resource-consuming drain that is procurement!

Procurement in the Security & Risk Management sector is often a slow, tedious drain on productivity and resources, because the market is highly fragmented, opaque, and increasingly regulated. These risks compound within a contingent, short notice operating environment, that causes missed opportunity, commercial disadvantage, reputation damage, liability exposure, or loss. So, for stakeholders wanting to source the best capability available to protect lives and safeguard assets, when and where needed, what can be Read more…

By Marshal, ago

Deploying personnel into safety & security risk environments requires more than just a CV and a covering letter!

Duty of Care and contract-specific obligations mean you are likely to need to access a plethora of additional documentation to mobilise into a high risk environment, depending on the expertise needed: qualifications, certifications, accreditations, permits, licenses, criminal record checks, travel documents, health documents, insurance, training records… Within our suite of digital services for the Security & Risk Management market, our powerful software enables a “remote-access talent pool” approach to recruitment, Read more…

By Marshal, ago

How to reverse the slow, tedious productivity and resource drain of security procurement

When sourcing Security & Risk Management solutions for immediate or upcoming operational needs, the standard response in social media channels is limited, and you have to follow up with a further search of the critical information you actually require. This is a slow, tedious productivity and resource drain. You don’t want that. Better, surely, to have all the information needed to compare and contrast options, in order to make informed, Read more…

By Marshal, ago

Hey, Fat Head, remember the Long Tail? How the security market can connect with your niche capability.

During the war between Israel and Lebanon in 2006 (also called the 2006 Israel–Hezbollah War), I was an Operations Manager at a UK based Security & Risk Management company, overseeing protective security contracts with international News Media clients operating in the conflict zone. One client Bureau Chief was, naturally, chasing the same agenda as his competition, and so needed to get his team rapidly across the border, in order to broadcast their latest scoop, or Read more…

By Marshal, ago