Gerald G. Doane

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Keys to an Effective Site Safety and Security Program

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Safety and security at schools, places of employment, places of worship, businesses, nightclubs, venues, etc., all of which I call SITES, has been a topic in our consciousness in recent years because of the mass killings, most by gunfire, most by insiders, in every section of our country. Many, if not most of the killings were preventable, foreseeable risks ignored except for a very few who raised concerns about a threat they saw coming.

Mass killings at such sites is not a recent phenomenon. The deadliest of school killings, for example, occurred in Bath, Michigan on May 18, 1927 when Andrew Kehoe, a school board member, detonated explosives in and around his school house killing some 42 persons and wounding 43 others. Most killed, and wounded were children, several were school staff. In fact, there were prior behaviors by Kehoe indicating a threat to the school.

Safety and security are "conditions" and "situations" embedded in the presence or absence of hazards and threats. Can we remove all hazards and threats from a site? Probably not. But we can remove the most serious and the most egregious of catastrophic risks and manage the lesser ones reasonably well.

My mission in this text is to outline the six keys to managing an effective site safety and security program, a program based upon prevention, deterrence, and enforcement of policy.

I will be short and to the point. I could put lots of examples of policy statements and protective measures in this text, but I won't. I shall leave it to individual site management to flesh out the details. One area where I have provided a detailed example of policy is in Nine - Audit Questionnaire.

My purpose is to present an easy to understand process for managing a site safety and security program. I will leave out the bureaucratic dogma that we all dislike and most of us do not understand anyway.

In the end, it is all up to site leaders, site policy makers, and the people who carry out the policy, and that is all of us, to keep our sites safe and secure.

This book is not about the larger topic of societal gun control. We dilute our efforts at keeping sites safe and secure by focusing on societal gun control. Weapons policy is important, but it needs to be about weapons policy at the site.

Site safety and security is about one thing, effective management of hazards and threats.

I have taken the best I learned about safety and security management in my former role as Corporate Security Risk Manager at CrownZellerbach Corporation and coupled that experience with my long-term tenure in law enforcement. I hope my work in producing this book helps the cause of safety and security at SITES!

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Code-4-Productions
• Seitenzahl: 70
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Dezember 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781732482036
• Artikelnr.: 54757595

Autorenporträt

I began learning about safety and security after enlisting in the United States Marine Corps in 1957. During Boot Camp, one of our tasks was to learn, by rote, the Ten General Orders. These General Orders were the policies and procedures of the Marine Corps established for Marines while standing interior guard. Later in my Marine Corps career, I learned, as a Radio Telegraph Operator, much about information security. In 1963 I became a San Francisco Police Officer. As a State of California Peace Officer my principle job was to enforce the safety and security policies (laws) of the state, to protect life and property, and to keep the peace while respecting the rights of the individual citizen. In 1973 I was fully promoted to Sergeant and was assigned many tasks including writing and editing a two-volume manual of policy and procedure, teaching officer safety and security protocols, and managing training programs. In 1978 I transferred to the San Rafael Police Department where I was promoted to lieutenant and became a Watch Commander and leader of two special operational units. In 1980, I left law enforcement to manage the security policies of CrownZellerbach Corporation, a major multinational forest products corporation. While there, my job was to protect the assets of the corporation by managing the security policies established by the corporation's Board of Directors. This is when and where I managed the considerable safety and security policies of the corporation. In 1986 CrownZellerbach Corporation became controlled by outside interests who broke the corporation into parts and sold the parts to others. I retired and formed my independent investigation and security consulting firm. During the period 1980 to 1997, I was a member of the American Society of Industrial Security (ASIS) and was a Certified Protection Professional (CPP). In 1997 I retired my business. My wife and I moved to Oregon and purchased a small farm. But I was not through with safety and security just yet. It seemed working our small farm was not enough stimulus in my life. So, I took a job with the Portland, Oregon Police Bureau (PPB) where I worked the front desk at Central Precinct on the night watch, and, worked our small farm during the day. At the PPB, I monitored site safety and security systems, assisted in citizen requests for police services, and performed administrative and support duties for our officers. Police work was still in my heart and brain. I retired from PPB in 2009. I did some volunteer work with the Central Cascades Fire and EMS (CCF&E) located in Crescent Lake, Oregon from about 2010 until 2013. I was an elected Director at Large to the department's Board of Directors. Both my wife and I were also volunteer firefighters at CCF&E until we left Oregon and returned to California. In addition to my work, I have extensive teaching experiences at The San Francisco Police Academy; City College of San Francisco; San Jose State University, Administration of Justice Bureau; Northwestern University, The Traffic Institute; The Canadian Police College. and other venues such as the Kansas City, Missouri Police Department, the Texas Department of Public Safety, and the Hennepin County, Minnesota Police Chiefs Association. My academic career included attending Oklahoma State University; receiving an Associate of Arts degree from City College of San Francisco; receiving a Bachelor of Arts degree from Golden Gate University; receiving a Master of Public Administration degree from the University of Southern California; and, earning a Life Time California Community College Instructor Credential for Public Services and Administration/Police Science.