It is a wise and professional decision for a security company to conduct a security risk assessment before assuming the role of guarding your premise or home. The question we often get asked is what is a security risk assessment and what is involved in the assessment. In this post, we will explain the security assessment and why it is crucial. Before we dive deep, you should remember that our company offers free security risk assessment when you are ready to move on and take our security services offer.
The meaning of security risk assessment:
Security risk assessment is a procedure of analyzing potential threats to the safety and security of a place to be guarded. It entails understanding the facility/place’s operating procedures and activities, review of its current security procedures and systems, examining the physical area to evaluate access points and discover any blind spots, and looking for crime information of the area. The way we conduct a security risk assessment at GYA, is we are not only looking at possibilities of crime to happen, but we also evaluate the threats of non-criminal incidents such as fire and flood.
Why you need a security risk assessment
Security risk assessment makes you understand where you are
Since the assessment is done on all areas of your organization, business, or home, you will know how each part of your procedures, systems, and areas perform in terms of safety and security.
Security risk assessment improves the level of safety and security
You might have implemented security measures without doing a security risk assessment. With the help of the findings of security risk assessment, you can heavily improve your level of safety and security by filling the gaps that the assessment has found.
Security risk assessment helps you budget properly for security services
Once you have identified levels of threats and areas you need to improve, you can then have a proper budget for security service as it is very important to fully secure your home, school, office, hotel, or any premises of your organization. It’s not a good idea to cut corners when it comes to safety and security.
Security risk assessment helps in implementing internal controls
Part of security risk assessment involves examining procedures and roles of the people in the area we are going to guard be it a school, a hospital, a hotel, a residential area, etc. These findings are useful not only for the security and safety but also for internal controls that ensure proper management of resources.
Security risk assessment is indeed very important for a fully secure environment. The good news for you is that we provide the security risks assessment for free for our clients. We have a team of professional security personnel ready to help you live a happy life knowing you have a great company taking care of your safety and security requirements.
Contact us today info@gyasecurity.com or by phone 0716 800 963 or 0755 301 743