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Methodology of physical safety of the enterprise

Type of study Follow-up Master
Language of instruction Czech
Code 060-0026/01
Abbreviation MFBP
Course title Methodology of physical safety of the enterprise
Credits 4
Coordinating department Department of Security Services
Course coordinator doc. Mgr. Ing. Radomír Ščurek, Ph.D.

Subject syllabus

1. Defining the security policy of the company and security management of the organization. Business protection structure; methods of assessing the safety of the object. Segments of physical protection of the company.
2. Assessing the protection of the company from a structural and procedural point of view. Zoning and methods for quantification of human factor failure in company security and residual risk.
3. Safety culture in physical protection, typology of corporate culture, applied mind map, graphic modeling of danger and Pareto's principle of repression and prevention in business protection.
4. Capacity issues to ensure security in the company. Static and dynamic capacity of connectors, processors and reservoirs, capacity peaks, economic aspect of capacity solutions.
5. The concept of prevention and methodology of business protection as a soft target, comparison with the so-called hard targets, Crowd safety management (crowd safety management) and application to selected objects (airport, school).
6. Sociological and prognostic methods used in physical security, case studies and statistics of the periphery of the company. Techniques for prioritizing criteria while minimizing physical security risk.
7. Methodology of scientific work and solution of professional problems in physical security in general. Use of linguistic interpretation in legal security interpretation.
8. Economic aspect of company protection; synergistic, dysergic and domino effect in the security of the company, the influence of legal regulations on the security economy, care of a proper manager and violation of rules in the management of company assets, identification of assets and the ALARP / ALARA rule in the company.
9. Fraudulent conduct in the company; audits, penetration test and integrity tests in the company, the phenomenon of clientelism, nepotism, protectionism, corruption and legalization of proceeds from crime and cases of corruption, criminal liability, whistleblower.
10. Methodology of competitive intelligence in the company, mystery shopping, vetting, information protection and space of special importance in the company, personnel preemployment screening, pitfalls.
11. Design issues of security, advanced perimeter security stations, labyrinth inputs, protection against the domino effect of processors, connectors and reservoirs in the company. Queue management - queue management system and queue theory.
12. Systems of access control to the company, identification, authorization and verification of employees and visitors to the company, RFID, biometrics and biometric technologies in the security practice of the company. Typing, questioning, observing and profiling a potential offender in the company.

E-learning

Study materials are stored in the LMS system of VŠB TU Ostrava and are also available for download at the link: study materials department 060.

Literature

FAY, J., PATERSON, D. Contemporary Security Management. Oxford, 2018. ISBN 978-0-12-809281-1 
PALMITE, A. R.: Securities Regulation: Examples & Explanations, Aspen Publ, 2017, ISBN13 (EAN): 978-14-5488-130-8
ŠČUREK,R., MARŠÁLEK, D.: Režimová a administrativní ochrana civilního letiště. Akademické nakladatelství CERM, s.r.o., Brno, 2014, 978-80-7204-882-3, vědecká monografie,
ŠČUREK,R., MARŠÁLEK, D.: Technologie fyzické ochrany civilního letiště. Akademické nakladatelství CERM, s.r.o., Brno, 2014, 978-80-7204-862-5, vědecká monografie

Advised literature

BHUSHAM, N. I., KANWAL, R. Strategic Decision Making: Applying the Analytic Heirarchy Process. Londýn: Springer – Verlag, 2004. 200 s. ISBN 1-8523375-6-7 .
BRABEC, F., LÁTAL, I., MUSIL, R., PILNÝ, I., URBAN, M., VEJLUPEK, T.: Bezpečnost pro firmu, úřad, občana, nakladatelství Public History, Praha, 2001.
FRYŠAR, M. a kolektiv: Bezpečnost pro manažery, podnikatele a politiky, nakladatelství Public History ve spolupráci s Českou asociací bezpečnostních manažerů, Praha, 2006.
UHLÁŘ, J.: Technická ochrana objektů 1.-3. díl, Policejní akademie ČR, Praha 2005.