Emergency Response

ACT Strategic is a new initiative brought forward by the National Counter-Terrorism Security Office (NaCTSO) which is designed to assist businesses in exploring ways of preventing, managing and recovering from a terrorist attack. ACT Strategic is aimed at those responsible for writing policies and procedures…

The Institute of Strategic Risk Management (ISRM) has been established in order to create a global centre where practitioners, academics and policy-makers can come together to share information, help progress and promote the underlying understanding and capabilities associated with strategic risk and crisis management and…

Security, fire and emergency response sector professionals are being urged to nominate “outstanding” individuals for this year’s Peter Greenwood Security Award and the Ian Marsh Fire Award. Nominated individuals must, through their own determined efforts, have helped to change the sector for the better. The…

Members of the British Security Industry Association’s (BSIA) dedicated Lone Worker Section have shown tremendous support for this year’s National Personal Safety Day, an annual awareness day organised by the Suzy Lamplugh Trust, one of the UK’s largest personal safety charities. National Personal Safety Day…

The annual Outlook Report published by Trade Association ADS shows that the UK’s security sector continues to demonstrate growth, almost doubling in size in the last five years with 2014 figures highlighting turnover at £8.5 billion and exports increasing to a total value of £3.4 billion. Productivity across the…

Security solutions specialist Wilson James has been appointed by BP to deliver Emergency Response Control Room services across the organisation’s North Sea business, in turn building upon and extending the existing core security guarding and reception service provision already in place. Commenting on the contract, Keith Fleming (director…