Security Risk Assessments

For this task, you are to complete the following activity to demonstrate your ability to conduct security risk assessments of client operations for three (3) different clients.  The following clients are examples that you can choose from or you can select your own:

1. Major sports venue which is due to hold a World Title boxing fight between the Australian titleholder and the challenger from China.
2. Multi-national Petrochemical company in the CBD who are being targeted by Climate Change activists. A rally by the group is expected to attract at least 10,000 people intending to stop traffic in the CBD and conclude with a meeting in the open public area outside the company building.
3. Chemical research laboratory engaged in Covid-19 virus vaccine development who have been accused of using live animal testing.
4. Opening of a rail line linking an open cut coal mine and a seaport terminal designed to load supertankers for export to Asia.
5. Redeveloped Private school in the inner suburbs being used to quarantine returned overseas travellers.

For this task you will require access to and the use of:

• Legislation, regulations, policies, and procedures that apply to conducting security risk assessments in the jurisdiction of operation
• Client specifications, information and intelligence, information technologies and resources required to achieve the performance evidence
• ISO 31000:2018 Risk management – Guidelines
• Australia’s Strategy for Protecting Crowded Places from Terrorism

The following tasks are to be demonstrated and assessed in the workplace or in a simulated workplace environment, meaning you should use your workplace or a workplace you are familiar with as the example for the documents and activities you are being asked to complete, or use an organisation that you are able to conduct research on to form the basis of your document development.

• Acknowledge any information you have used (websites, books etc.) by referencing the original source
• Where appropriate to demonstrate competency please include evidence and examples of what you are saying, attach additional documents and work samples.

Questions

1.Who are likely to be the relevant personnel you can consult with to clarify the client security requirements and operating environment?

2.How can you highlight and specify risks that are high priority to ensure appropriate controls are developed?

3.Explain how to evaluate existing controls so you can determine their impact on risk occurrence, and so you can implement required modifications.

4.What information will need to be documented into the action plans developed?

5.Explain the five (5) categories of risk treatment options you can select from, based on the assessed type, nature, cause and degree of the identified security risks.

6.Discuss the types of actions you might incorporate when planning risk management strategies to respond to contingencies.

7.How would you typically establish, in consultation with relevant persons, the communication and reporting arrangements that will be used to maintain currency of action plans?

8.How would you confirm the potential and real security risks in the client’s operating environment?

9.Discuss how to research selected feasible risk treatment options to confirm implications for controlling whole or part of security risks.

10.What do you need to ensure about the documentation you create when costing the recommended risk treatment options to ensure their compatibility with nature of risk and client requirements?

11.Why is it important to obtain approvals from relevant persons after verifying the suitability of recommended risk treatment options?

12.What do you need to ensure about the finalised comprehensive security risk management plan?

13.What explanation strategies might you use when presenting the risk management plan to relevant persons, within the agreed timeframes to explain the identified security risks and treatments, to enhance understanding and acceptance of recommendations?

14.What is the point of implementing procedures to monitor and review security risk management activities?

15.Discuss the requirements for securing any completed risk management plans.

Questions part 2

Your task is to write the answers to each of the following questions. Answers should exceed 50 words but no more than 100 words for each questions.

1.Outline the following legislative and regulatory requirements that apply when developing security risk management plans:

1. Key requirements of legislation, regulations and codes of conduct for security risk management in the jurisdiction of operation
2. Legal rights and responsibilities of employers, supervisors and employees associated with work health and safety and duty of care
3. Licensing requirements in the security industry
4. Trespass and removal of persons
5. Use of force

2. Briefly explain the application of integrated security measures for each of the following:
3. Physical security
4. Manpower
5. Security technologies
6. Security of personnel
7. Security of information

3. Outline the distinctions between information and intelligence.

4.What methods can be used for validating information sources?

5. Discuss the activities which are to be included in action plans for security risk management.

6. Briefly outline each of the following guidelines, and discuss their implications for security operations:
7. National Guidelines for the Protection of Places of Mass gathering from Terrorism
8. Active Armed Offender Guidelines for Crowded Places
9. Improvised Explosive Device Guidelines for Crowded Places
10. Chemical Weapon Guidelines for Crowded Places
11. Hostile Vehicle Guidelines for Crowded Places
12. Discuss the methods that can be used for:
13. Determining the type, nature and causes of potential and actual security risks
14. Distinguishing between acceptable and unacceptable security risks
15. Prioritising security risks and treatment options based on degree of risk
16. Testing treatment options in the field
17. Outline the process and the application of dynamic risk assessment and risk management methods.
18. Referencing Australia’s Strategy for Protecting Crowded Places from Terrorism, provide a brief understanding of:
19. The definition of:

• Crowded places
• Hostile vehicles
• Methods of hostile vehicle attack

1. Key security issues for crowded places
2. The objectives, characteristics and identification of active armed offenders
3. Signs of chemical weapons attack, and the recommend response
4. General features of improvised explosive devices and recommended incident response
5. Reflect on the recognised industry practice and application of ISO 31000:2018 Risk management – Guidelines (ISO 31000) in the designing of security risk management strategies and treatment options
6. Discuss the types of treatment options which are appropriate to the following range of security risks and threats to various client operating environments:
7. Assets
8. Buildings
9. Crowded places and mass gatherings