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Security Management

About Security Management

Security Management is a broad management field encompassing the security of a business’s human and physical resources and assets. Management tools and strategies are used to classify assets, identify potential risks or threats, and to plan and implement measures of safety, security, control, and loss prevention.

About Our Security Management Course

This Security Management course covers the principles of security management and the operations involved to protect a business and its assets. It provides knowledge of the principles of loss and decision making within the security environment, as well as an overview of the factors that form a modern security management team. Our Security Management course will also show the student how to reduce the employer's exposure to liability.

What Could I Do After Taking This Security Management Training Course?

Work in security management. After taking our training course in managing security you will have sufficient knowledge to apply for a job in the security services. You could apply for a variety of roles in the security services, from security officer, starting at up to £23,000*/year, to a security management professional in a private business.

Gain a promotion. Already working in security management? You could take a step up the career ladder to a security director role or that of a chief security officer. You could even be eligible for a pay increase.

Start your own business. Want to be your own boss? You could start your own private company providing security services or security management consulting.

*Source: Payscale.com, Oct. 2012

Modules

  • Rationale and processes
  • Organisation and planning
  • Management
  • Personnel
  • Budgeting
  • Decision-making
  • Security threats
  • Systems
  • Project management
  • Electronic data processing
  • Burglary and theft
  • Hijacking
  • Abuse of women
  • Child abuse
  • Harassment at work
  • For a more detailed syllabus on this course, click here

Entry Requirements

There is no experience or previous qualifications required for enrolment on this course. It is available to all students, of all academic backgrounds.

All course fees, inclusive of all payment plans including our Premium Credit Limited option, must be settled before certification can be ordered.

*You will have access to the course for 24 months.

Assessment Method

After each lesson there will be a question paper, which needs to be completed and submitted to your personal tutor for marking. This method of continual assessment ensures that your personal tutor can consistently monitor your progress and provide you with assistance throughout the duration of the course.

 

On successful completion of your course you will receive the learndirect Certificate of Completion of Training in Security Management.

Your course certificate will also state the number of CPD points/hours the course is eligible for.

View a sample of the certificate (opens in new window)

learndirect is one of the largest integrated providers of courses and qualifications, training, and employment services in the UK

  • Each year around 6,000 businesses equip their staff for success with learndirect
  • learndirect have helped more than 75,000 businesses equip their employees with the skills needed to improve productivity.
  • Almost 700,000 maths and English test passes have been achieved with learndirect.
  • 300,000 people fulfilled their career ambitions last year with learndirect.
  • Over 250,000 apprentices have achieved with learndirect.
  • SALE Savings End Midnight Tuesday 17th November
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Security Management

About Security Management

Security Management is a broad management field encompassing the security of a business’s human and physical resources and assets. Management tools and strategies are used to classify assets, identify potential risks or threats, and to plan and implement measures of safety, security, control, and loss prevention.

About Our Security Management Course

This Security Management course covers the principles of security management and the operations involved to protect a business and its assets. It provides knowledge of the principles of loss and decision making within the security environment, as well as an overview of the factors that form a modern security management team. Our Security Management course will also show the student how to reduce the employer's exposure to liability.

What Could I Do After Taking This Security Management Training Course?

Work in security management. After taking our training course in managing security you will have sufficient knowledge to apply for a job in the security services. You could apply for a variety of roles in the security services, from security officer, starting at up to £23,000*/year, to a security management professional in a private business.

Gain a promotion. Already working in security management? You could take a step up the career ladder to a security director role or that of a chief security officer. You could even be eligible for a pay increase.

Start your own business. Want to be your own boss? You could start your own private company providing security services or security management consulting.

*Source: Payscale.com, Oct. 2012

Modules

  • Rationale and processes
  • Organisation and planning
  • Management
  • Personnel
  • Budgeting
  • Decision-making
  • Security threats
  • Systems
  • Project management
  • Electronic data processing
  • Burglary and theft
  • Hijacking
  • Abuse of women
  • Child abuse
  • Harassment at work
  • For a more detailed syllabus on this course, click here

Entry Requirements

There is no experience or previous qualifications required for enrolment on this course. It is available to all students, of all academic backgrounds.

All course fees, inclusive of all payment plans including our Premium Credit Limited option, must be settled before certification can be ordered.

*You will have access to the course for 24 months.

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Assessment

Assessment Method

After each lesson there will be a question paper, which needs to be completed and submitted to your personal tutor for marking. This method of continual assessment ensures that your personal tutor can consistently monitor your progress and provide you with assistance throughout the duration of the course.

 

Qualifications

On successful completion of your course you will receive the learndirect Certificate of Completion of Training in Security Management.

Your course certificate will also state the number of CPD points/hours the course is eligible for.

View a sample of the certificate (opens in new window)

learndirect is one of the largest integrated providers of courses and qualifications, training, and employment services in the UK

  • Each year around 6,000 businesses equip their staff for success with learndirect
  • learndirect have helped more than 75,000 businesses equip their employees with the skills needed to improve productivity.
  • Almost 700,000 maths and English test passes have been achieved with learndirect.
  • 300,000 people fulfilled their career ambitions last year with learndirect.
  • Over 250,000 apprentices have achieved with learndirect.
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