Training Security Guards

Training Security Guards

If you are tasked with training security guards it’s important to remember a few things:

1) Not all guards have formal education in security and may lack a lot of relevant experience. As such, be very clear about what you are communicating.

2) Whatever you say should be written down, especially if it’s important and procedural. Many companies and training managers forget that if it isn’t written a secuirty guard can quite easily say–and often do–that no one told them of the policy. Go a step further and have all guards who are trained sign whatever documentation there is.

3) Not all  guards learn in the same way. It’s important to make sure whomevever you are speaking to comprehends what you are saying. This may seem obvious but it’s often forgotten. An easy to way to test to ensure retention is to ask the guard you are speaking to to repeat what you said or, perhaps more politely, ask them why they think the rule or policy that you just reviewed is

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