Facility Manager’s Guide to Security: Protecting Assets

This book is written for people who are responsible for facility security. It tells the manager everything he/she needs to know about how to build and manage a security system. It talks about layout of the facility in order to provide secure facilities for workers, plants, processes and products.It explains how to perform a risk
assessment. It explains security for different types of facilities like commercial property, schools, hotels, factories, warehouses and government buildings. It covers distances and separations for security, fencing, access control, key control systems, locks, hasps, gates, and the more sophisticated systems such as intrusion detection systems in burglar alarm systems, closed circuit television, infrared detectors, lighting, clear zones and electronic control systems. It addresses pass keys, mortise and cylinder locksets, master key, key control programs, thumbprint and retinal scan access control, voice print analysis, hand geometry, personnel badging, key pad, electronic key control, drug tests, security clearances and background checks. Finally it helps the facility manager to manage the security personnel, guards, rounds, shift work, training, procedure development and those other non-hardware elements of a security program.