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Atricle Dump - What’s Happening in Security & What You Need to Know
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Manned Security & the Private Security Industry Act 2001
Voluntary regulation led by NSI and supported by the likes of insurers and police, has had a major impact in driving up standards in the electronic security sector. NSI has also achieved much success in the manned guarding sector with the majority of UK contracts, in terms of value, being provided by NSI Guarding Gold a
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Confusing enough for myself, but much more of an issue for people like yourselves involved in facilities management. For most of you, security is just one of many areas you are involved with and keeping abreast with the pertinent issues that impact upon your organisation is not easy.
There are a couple of current issues that you need to be aware of. Firstly, new European Standards have recently been introduced for intruder alarm installation and secondly, there is the impact of the Private Security Industry Act 2001 on the manned security sector.
Euro Standards for Intruder and Hold-up Alarms Are Here
Security is no exception to Europeanisation of Standards being negotiated into a pan-European role, EU members anyway, where ultimately everything will be the same in member states. But not quite yet.
As from October last year, the British Standard (BS 4737) for the installation of intruder alarms is no more, having been replaced with the European Standard EN 50131-1. Well it’s not quite that simple. We like to be a little different in the UK and therefore new installations should be specified against a scheme document known as BSI PD 6662:2004, which is the UK version for implementing EN 50131, retaining some aspects of BS 4737 because EN 50131 is incomplete.
Considered by many to be the largest transformation of the UK intruder alarms industry in 30 years, what does this mean for you? A fundamental change is that PD 6662 alarms need to be given a security grading, with Grade 1 for the lowest and Grade 4 for the highest risk. Insurers generally state that Grade 3 equates in most respects to the majority of systems that are currently installed in commercial premises in the UK. Grade 2 systems are likely to be acceptable for most household risks and some low risk commercial premises. However, your insurer should be consulted as they are underwriting your risk and they will determine what grade of system is necessary. (When preparing tender documents, reference should be made to PD 6662 and not specifically EN 50131. To help avoid confusion, NSI recommends that its approved companies quote for PD 6662:2004 alarm systems and put additional explanatory words such as “which is the UK implementation of EN 50131”.)
On a separate issue, you should be aware that there are only two ways of receiving police response to newly installed remotely monitored electronic security systems. For intruder and hold-up alarms installed after October 2005, PD 6662 is the only way a new system can be issued with a police unique reference number (URN) in order to receive police response to confirmed alarm activations. Secondly, URN’s can also be issued for Detector Activated CCTV systems complying with BS 8418.
Manned Security & the Private Security Industry Act 2001
Voluntary regulation led by NSI and supported by the likes of insurers and police, has had a major impact in driving up standards in the electronic security sector. NSI has also achieved much success in the manned guarding sector with the majority of UK contracts, in terms of value, being provided by NSI Guarding Gold an
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Euro Standards for Intruder and Hold-up Alarms Are Here
Security is no exception to Europeanisation of Standards being negotiated into a pan-European role, EU members anyway, where ultimately everything will be the same in member states. But not quite yet.
As from October last year, the British Standard (BS 4737) for the installation of intruder alarms is no more, having been replaced with the European Standard EN 50131-1. Well it’s not quite that simple. We like to be a little different in the UK and therefore new installations should be specified against a scheme document known as BSI PD 6662:2004, which is the UK version for implementing EN 50131, retaining some aspects of BS 4737 because EN 50131 is incomplete.
Considered by many to be the largest transformation of the UK intruder alarms industry in 30 years, what does this mean for you? A fundamental change is that PD 6662 alarms need to be given a security grading, with Grade 1 for the lowest and Grade 4 for the highest risk. Insurers generally state that Grade 3 equates in most respects to the majority of systems that are currently installed in commercial premises in the UK. Grade 2 systems are likely to be acceptable for most household risks and some low risk commercial premises. However, your insurer should be consulted as they are underwriting your risk and they will determine what grade of system is necessary. (When preparing tender documents, reference should be made to PD 6662 and not specifically EN 50131. To help avoid confusion, NSI recommends that its approved companies quote for PD 6662:2004 alarm systems and put additional explanatory words such as “which is the UK implementation of EN 50131”.)
On a separate issue, you should be aware that there are only two ways of receiving police response to newly installed remotely monitored electronic security systems. For intruder and hold-up alarms installed after October 2005, PD 6662 is the only way a new system can be issued with a police unique reference number (URN) in order to receive police response to confirmed alarm activations. Secondly, URN’s can also be issued for Detector Activated CCTV systems complying with BS 8418.
Manned Security & the Private Security Industry Act 2001
Voluntary regulation led by NSI and supported by the likes of insurers and police, has had a major impact in driving up standards in the electronic security sector. NSI has also achieved much success in the manned guarding sector with the majority of UK contracts, in terms of value, being provided by NSI Guarding Gold a
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Considered by many to be the largest transformation of the UK intruder alarms industry in 30 years, what does this mean for you? A fundamental change is that PD 6662 alarms need to be given a security grading, with Grade 1 for the lowest and Grade 4 for the highest risk. Insurers generally state that Grade 3 equates in most respects to the majority of systems that are currently installed in commercial premises in the UK. Grade 2 systems are likely to be acceptable for most household risks and some low risk commercial premises. However, your insurer should be consulted as they are underwriting your risk and they will determine what grade of system is necessary. (When preparing tender documents, reference should be made to PD 6662 and not specifically EN 50131. To help avoid confusion, NSI recommends that its approved companies quote for PD 6662:2004 alarm systems and put additional explanatory words such as “which is the UK implementation of EN 50131”.)
On a separate issue, you should be aware that there are only two ways of receiving police response to newly installed remotely monitored electronic security systems. For intruder and hold-up alarms installed after October 2005, PD 6662 is the only way a new system can be issued with a police unique reference number (URN) in order to receive police response to confirmed alarm activations. Secondly, URN’s can also be issued for Detector Activated CCTV systems complying with BS 8418.
Manned Security & the Private Security Industry Act 2001
Voluntary regulation led by NSI and supported by the likes of insurers and police, has had a major impact in driving up standards in the electronic security sector. NSI has also achieved much success in the manned guarding sector with the majority of UK contracts, in terms of value, being provided by NSI Guarding Gold a
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On a separate issue, you should be aware that there are only two ways of receiving police response to newly installed remotely monitored electronic security systems. For intruder and hold-up alarms installed after October 2005, PD 6662 is the only way a new system can be issued with a police unique reference number (URN) in order to receive police response to confirmed alarm activations. Secondly, URN’s can also be issued for Detector Activated CCTV systems complying with BS 8418.
Manned Security & the Private Security Industry Act 2001
Voluntary regulation led by NSI and supported by the likes of insurers and police, has had a major impact in driving up standards in the electronic security sector. NSI has also achieved much success in the manned guarding sector with the majority of UK contracts, in terms of value, being provided by NSI Guarding Gold a
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Manned Security & the Private Security Industry Act 2001
Voluntary regulation led by NSI and supported by the likes of insurers and police, has had a major impact in driving up standards in the electronic security sector. NSI has also achieved much success in the manned guarding sector with the majority of UK contracts, in terms of value, being provided by NSI Guarding Gold and Silver approved companies. Outside voluntary regulation however, there remains a core of non-regulated companies, in many cases providing customers contracting security personnel with a sub-standard service sometimes operating at a criminal level.
The Private Security Industry Act provided for the creation of the Security Industry Authority (SIA) which is empowered to introduce regulation (mandatory or voluntary as it deems fit) aimed at raising standards in manned security and associated areas. The first impact of this legislation on many businesses is that externally-contracted security guards must have an SIA license to operate as from 20 March 2006, otherwise, it will be illegal for them to operate and companies supplying such personnel may liable to prosecution.
For various reasons, including delays in processing applications (about 20 weeks) and companies leaving it late to send in staff applications, it seems likely that thousands of contract security staff will be un-licensed from that date. This could lead to many organisations that use contract manned security being disrupted as suppliers are forced to withdraw their staff until such time as the employee receives a licence.
The SIA have threatened to prosecute companies who do not immediately comply. But whether they follow-up this threat or offer leniency to companies who are obviously trying to comply remains to be seen.
The issue of new security staff being un-licenced for a period may be resolved with the introduction later of the SIA’s “Approved Contractors Scheme” (ACS), which will be a voluntary scheme for security contractors to achieve SIA approval. The final details of this are yet to be confirmed; however it will allow a dispensation for new staff in ACS approved companies to work without a licence whilst waiting for them to be processed.
When the ACS is finally launched, NSI is likely to be one of a number of organisations conducting the verification of applications on behalf of the SIA. All NSI approved Guarding companies will meet the requirements of the ACS. NSI’s own standards generally exceed those of the ACS, so rest assured that when selecting NSI approved companies, you know they meet the highest industry standards.
NSI is an independent, not-for-profit organisation that inspects and certificates companies installing electronic security, fire protection systems and those that provide contract manned security. For advice on issues covered in this article or if you would like further information about NSI, contact 0845 006 3003 or visit www.nsi.org.uk
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