Protection Management
How Protection Management Can Change Your Business
The Protection Division develops and integrates shared theory and principles in the design and implementation of systems to protect people and property in organizations from losses associated with fire, injury, disturbance, and crime. In addition to the catastrophic problems caused by events such as earthquakes, fires, explosions, floods and hurricanes, which usually occur in the form of accidents in the workplace.
By understanding the real threats that organizations have recently faced, the Protection Department can provide a new assessment of their exposure to risks by investigating potential risks and weaknesses in organizations, with the aim of contributing to ensuring adequate protection for the organization to be effective. Thus a protection program that combines a systems approach is a comprehensive solution to the problems that an organization may face.
Examples of Threats
Natural hazards (fire, tornado, flood, earthquake, hurricane)
Acts of malevolence
Cyber threats
Accident
Intellectual property or data
Theft and pilferage
Discrimination
White-collar or economic crime
Employees with a negative approach
Acts of deception
Workplace violence
Management misconduct
Occupational crime
Benefits of Protection Management
Whatever you have heard or experienced, a protection management enables an organization to better cope with both, natural and man-made hazards. A reliable protection management system makes your organization easier to reduce risks, increase success, and gains many benefits, including:
Protects human life
Reduces the exposure of physical assets
Prevents or minimizes personal injury
Improves organizational image
Boosts employee confidence
Improves information security
Helps prevent accidents
Increases compliance
Improves efficiency
Improves performance
Restores normal operations as quickly as possible
Reduces the costs associated with accidents and many hidden costs
Stages of Protection Management
The design and implementation of an asset protection program combine the systems approach, defined as a comprehensive solution to a total problem. There are three general stages in the systems approach:
A vulnerability analysis
The basic principle of asset protection is that an effective security plan or program should be based on a clear understanding of the actual risks encountered and be through a careful assessment of three factors:
Risks affecting the assets to be protected
The probability of those risks becoming actual loss events
The effect on the assets/enterprise if the loss occurs
Selection and installation of countermeasures
Countermeasures apply to people, devices, and software. All three must be interconnected in the design of the system to ensure an effective and integrated protection program. The following are three aspects of a loss event in any system of countermeasures:
Loss event profile
Loss event probability or frequency
Loss event criticality
A thorough test of the operating program
Tests of the operating program are essential in the implementation of the assets protection system. Tests should result in the following:
Risks or hazards still existing are identified and system deficiencies are revealed
System changes required to accommodate facility or organization revisions become apparent