Goods in Transit Safety and Security: A Guide for Transport Managers

This course is designed to provide participants with the knowledge and skills to effectively implement system safety, security, and emergency management principles.

CONTENT:

• Introduction to Safety Management Systems (SMS)
• Importance of Employee Safety Reporting
• Why transit security
• Introduction to system security
• Terrorist acts against transit
• Transit security countermeasures
• Development of a System Security Plan and security policies and procedures
• Threat and Vulnerability Assessment (TVA)
• Procurement and security activities
• Incident command system and coordination of response efforts and resources
• Problem oriented/problem solving security
• Managing the media
• Crime prevention
• Selling security to management and the public
• Safety Assurance activities and tools
• The relationship between Safety Risk Management (SRM) and Safety Assurance (SA)
• Current SRM/SA activities and tools, as well as the gaps that exist
• Safety Performance Monitoring and Measurement
• Research and guidelines
• Transit Standards
• Regulations and guidance

TRAINING METHODOLOGY

The training methodology combines lectures, discussions, group exercises and illustrations. Participants will gain both theoretical and practical knowledge of the topics. The emphasis is on the practical application of the topics and as a result participant will go back to the workplace with both the ability and the confidence to apply the techniques learned to their duties.

This course is available in the following locations:

Ghana - $6000
Rwanda - $7000
UK - $8000
USA - $8000