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Security Audits
In order to ensure your hospital, shopping center, or office building has a cohesive, effective, relevant and cost effective security program, a thorough security assessment is a must. The Security Assessment Audit by our experts must be qualitative as well as quantitative. The role of the Security Assessment Audit by our security expert team is to provide the underpinning for the entire security program.
How can any facility justify the use of security officers, CCTV or alarm systems without first conducting a Security Assessment Audit by one of our expert team? Before purchasing a single camera or hiring the first security officer, there must be an assessment of need.
SSI provides the use of Crime Prevention through Environmental Design (CPTED) principals in conducting security assessments.
Hospital Security Audits
An SSI Security Assessment Audit will pay special attention to areas of special sensitivity such as the Emergency Department, L & D and postpartum, pediatrics, psychiatric and drug treatment units as well as parking facilities and more. In the area of asset protection, we will evaluate special areas of concern such as food service, pharmacies, medical supply and the business office. An Assessment Audit by our security experts will evaluate both exteriors as well as interiors.
SSI will also ensure that your hospital program is meeting JCAHO Environment of Care standards for security. We will be sure that, where applicable, State statutes are being adhered to. An Assessment Audit by our security expert team will be sensitive to security components of HCFA standards. We will also help hospitals meet the requirements necessary to ensure privacy and to protect data as required by HIPAA.
Hotel Security Audits
In the hospitality industry our Assessment Audit by our security experts will focus on safeguarding your guests. We will evaluate the contribution of each employee toward an effective Hotel Security program. The Assessment Audit by our security expert team will examine security procedures for supplies and equipment. Bar and restaurant operations will be scrutinized as well as related cash and credit transactions. We will also measure lighting and the application of security technology. Our Assessment Audit will review hiring practices including the applicant screening process.
Commercial Security, General Aviation Security, Apartment Security, and Shopping Center / Retail Security Audits
In both commercial and retail environments, SSI, will first evaluate and then develop Commercial Security programs that maximize ROI. Companies dealing with contract vendors such as alarm companies and/or guard companies will benefit from our Assessment Audit analysis, performed by our security expert team, by being assured these outsourced vendors are delivering on their contracts. Our Assessment Audit by our security expert team will also evaluate the threat posed by other outside contractors such as janitorial services and HVAC contractors and subsequently mitigate that threat.
The following site audit you can perform on your own facility to determine your needs.
Top of Form
01) YESNO
Has your facility ever been the object of a lawsuit for inadequate security?
02) YESNO
Has a Board Certified security professional completed a site security assessment within the last 12 months?
03) YESNO
Has all exterior lighting been evaluated in terms of foot-candles (fc) in order to ensure that adequate security standards are being met?
04) YESNO
Are your exterior door locks tamper resistant?
05) YESNO
If you use a janitorial service, do you require the contractor to background screen all employees?
06) YESNO
Have mailroom personnel been trained to recognize suspicious letters and parcels?
07) YESNO
Do you know the maximum response of the Police to a 911 call and how that response time may be affected by the commission of a terrorist act within the community?
08) YESNO
Have you ensured that every employee and/or tenant has been through a Security Awareness Training Program?
09) YESNO
Have you invited the Police Department's Crime Prevention Officer to bring the Neighborhood Watch Program to your facility?
10) YESNO
If you are using a Contract Guard Service, have you reviewed your contract to ensure your company will not be held culpable for their negligence?
11) YESNO
Have your Security and Loss Prevention Policies & Procedures been reviewed and updated in the last 18 months?
12) YESNO
Do you have backup methods of communication if your facility looses the phone system?
13) YESNO
Are your electronic equipment closets fully secured?
14) YESNO
Have you evaluated all tenants to determine if any of them increase the sites threat vulnerability?
15) YESNO
Does your organization require pre-employment drug screening?
16) YESNO
Are outside contractors expected to submit their employees to pre-employment drug testing?
17) YESNO
Do you have a plan to react to a bio-chemical attack?
18) YESNO
Do you have a bomb threat protocol and are those involved fully trained and rehearsed?
19) YESNO
Has the Bomb Threat Protocol been reevaluated since 9/11 and are those answering such phone calls retrained every six months?
20) YESNO
Have you had a domestic violence incident in the work place within the last three years?
21) YESNO
Has a discharged employee threatened anyone in the company within the last three years?
22) YESNO
Have you found an employee using or dealing Controlled Substances within the last 18 months?
23) YESNO
Is there a well defined Trespass Protocol that contains clearly defined criteria for removal of persons from the property?
24) YESNO
Are all security personnel trained in liability mitigation techniques?
25) YESNO
Have you experienced internal theft in the last 18 months?
26) YESNO
Is your inventory control program able to detect all thefts in excess of $25.00?
27) YESNO
Has your parking facility suffered a vehicle break-in within the past 12 months?
28) YESNO
Have you had a vehicle theft within the past 12 months?
29) YESNO
Have you had a computer theft within the past 12 months?
30) YESNO
If you are using CCTV, does every camera have a written protocol?
31) YESNO
Do you use a Visitor ID Badge System?
32) YESNO
Do you use an Employee ID Badge System?
33) YESNO
Do you employ a property pass system?
34) YESNO
Do your understand the relationship between good housekeeping and crime prevention?
35) YESNO
Has there ever been a rape on your property?
36) YESNO
Has there ever been a homicide on your property?
37) YESNO
Has there ever been an assault on your property?
38) YESNO
Has any employee and/or tenant ever been the victim of a stalker while in the workplace)?
39) YESNO
Do you maintain the right to search employee desks and lockers as a condition of employment?
40) YESNO
Does your key control program allow the tracking of every key issued?
41) YESNO
Are tenants educated that that facility's security responsibility ends at the threshold and is restricted to the common areas?
42) YESNO
When a key is lost or not turned in upon termination, do you re-core the affected locks?
43) YESNO
Are all employees with purchase authority in excess of $1000.00, required to sign conflict of interest agreements?
44) YESNO
Are escorts readily available for employees and/or tenants, to and from their vehicles?
45) YESNO
Are Security Incident Reports, Investigation Files, and Security Logs recorded and maintained within a specialized security database system?
46) YESNO
Does every Security Incident require a Corrective Action response and is that response documented within the database system?
47) YESNO
Have all security personnel been taught documentation and witnessing skills?
48) YESNO
Is a Board Certified Protection Professional (CPP) overseeing your security program?
49) YESNO
Is a crimecast analysis conducted at least every three years, for a radius of at least three miles, of the siteÕs location?
50) YESNO
Are all internal crimes and acts of dishonesty fully investigated by a competent security professional and are those investigations held active until fruition?
Once you have completed the survey contact SSI to help implament the security coverage and expertiese to protect your facility.
