Safeguard construction sites with the most comprehensive assistance available.
- Recognize and address threats to construction site security.
- Ensure worker safety and protect assets and equipment.
- Use downloadable checklists, survey forms, and questionnaires for a quick start to a safer site.
Construction Site Security includes five major sections, featuring 24 chapters of time-saving, on-target security guidance.
- Understanding Security
- Physical Security
- Information Security
- Animal and Ecoterrorism
- Partnering with Outside Groups
Security authority Michael J Arata, Jr., provides the tools needed to make construction sites safer and more secure on every front. Construction Site Security makes all varieties of building site security easier and more bulletproof. This comprehensive guide offers detailed, tool-packed chapters on issues from worker safety and physical site protection to safeguarding information, and from defending against eco-terrorism to meeting insurance industry mandates.
Construction Site Security provides a clear, practical program for understanding, assessing, and implementing security options. You get comprehensive, expert, hands-on help that ensures the job gets done thoroughly and quickly.
Confident, Complete, and Efficient Construction Site Security
- Survey forms, checklists, and questionnaires to ensure expert assessment, planning, design, and implementation - fast.
- Threat-assessment guidance on every step.
- Tools that help you comply with insurance requirements and earn insurance incentives.
- Protection of workers, assets, and equipment.
- Comprehensive coverage of issues from video surveillance to traffic flow and guard training, setting policies to conducting investigations.
- Complete information protection, from firewalls to document classification, hardware security to information audits.
- Maximizing help from local law enforcement and other community groups.
- Authoritative advice on the tactics of eco- and animal rights terrorists and how to foil them.
In order to meet insurance requirements or earn incentives, construction companies must now put a security plan in place for every construction site. This comprehensive resource covers all the essentials of planning, prioritizing, and implementing construction site security.
- The only comprehensive guide on the subject of construction site security.
- Written for construction managers, design-build firms, contractors, security professionals, job superintendents, architects, and engineers.
- Includes checklists, survey forms, and questionnaires for implementing a construction site security plan.
- Shows how to conduct threat assessments; manage lighting and traffic flow; install intrusion detection systems; ensure information security; and partner with local law enforcement.
Table of Contents
PART I: UNDERSTANDING SECURITY. Chapter 1: Introduction. Chapter 2: Threat Assessment Basics. Chapter 3: Security Overview. Chapter 4: The Security Survey. PART II: PHYSICAL SECURITY. Chapter 5: Perimeter Security. Chapter 6: Intrusion Detection for Job Trailers. Chapter 7: Lock and Key Control. Chapter 8: Video Surveillance. Chapter 9: Equipment Security. Chapter 10: Access Control. Chapter 11: The Role of the Security Officer. Chapter 12: Policies. Chapter 13: Investigations. PART III: INFORMATION SECURITY. Chapter 14: Information Security Basics. Chapter 15: Document Classification. Chapter 16: Passwords. Chapter 17: Firewalls. Chapter 18: Physical Protection of Hardware. Chapter 19: Information Security Audits. PART IV: ANIMAL AND ECO-TERRORISM. Chapter 20: Overview. Chapter 21: Tactics Used by Eco-Terrorists. Chapter 22: Preventing Attacks. PART V: PARTNERING WITH OUTSIDE GROUPS. Chapter 23: Work With Local Construction Crime Prevention Program. Chapter 24: Working with Law Enforcement.
About the Author
Michael J Arata, Jr. (Manteca, CA) is the Director of Corporate Security for a large west coast construction company and is the author of two prior books. |
