8.02 Discuss considerations for safety and security.

1. 8.02 Discuss considerations for safety and security.

2. Safety and security. • Safety is providing the proper precaution to protect against harm, failure, breakage, or accident • Security is any measure taken to guard against crime of attack

3. Types of indoor/outdoor security • Security guards are hired to protect venue and maintain order at event • Metal detectors are devices that detect presence of metal; device is usually hand-held or gatelike in structure • Searches are used to examine a person or their personal effects in order to find an inappropriate concealed item

4. Types of indoor/outdoor security, cont.. • Security badges include plastic cards, metal tags, devices, or tokens • May be issued to employees, contractors, vendors, members of press, athletes or entertainers and their entourage, or any other person with valid reason for entering secure area or event

5. Types of indoor/outdoor security, cont.. Examples of security badges: • Wristbands are plastic identification bands that encircle the wrist • Photo-identification cards are plastic cards or bearing a photograph, name, and other identifying information about a person

6. Types of indoor/outdoor security, cont.. Examples of security badges, cont.. • Magnetic strips cards are plastic swipe cards with magnetic strip containing encoded data read by passing the card through slotted electronic device - Cards used especially to make electronic transactions and provide access to restricted or secure areas

7. Types of indoor/outdoor security, cont.. Examples of security badges, cont.. • Smart cards are plastic cards containing computer chip which allows holder to enter secured areas, buy good and services, or execute other operations requiring secured information stored on the chip • Bar code cards are plastic cards with number of vertical lines set in a pattern, containing identifying security information

8. Types of indoor/outdoor security, cont.. Examples of security badges, cont.. • Proximity cards are plastic cards with magnetic strip containing encoded data that is read by passing the cards within a certain distance of a computerized electronic cards reader. - Used to provide access to restricted or secured areas

9. Types of indoor/outdoor security, cont.. • Facial recognition technology is a computer program that takes images filmed from camera and compares them to known database of criminal pictures. • Crowds of people can be scanned instantly using single camera alleviating the long security lines • Technology was first used on wide-scale basis at 2002 Winter Olympics

10. Types of indoor/outdoor security, cont.. • Surveillance cameras are used to observe attendees of an event