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Part two of the conference –
‘Influencing Professional standards’
began with Frank Cannon CSyP FSyI,
HPC Site Security Manager at Hinkley
Point C who delivered a very
entertaining and engaging
presentation on ‘Influencing the
Workforce Through Security
Awareness; a Practitioner’s Approach.
Frank is a lifelong protector of
people, property, and information.
Building on his full-service career
within the Royal Military Police, Frank
transitioned into the construction
security niche field of expertise. An
advocate of workforce engagement to
develop behavioural-based security
culture. Frank hosted a challenging
debate around a proven approach to
workforce engagement in the
development of a behavioural-based
security culture. Sharing a
methodology to influence by keeping
the message relevant, personal and
important to the recipient. Brian took
to the stage following Frank’s
presentation to take some engaging
Q&A, before handing over to Rick
Mounfield who took on the role, last
minute, of the second speaker for
Part 2 of the Conference.
Following a splendid lunch and
networking session, Part Three –
Hidden Influences commenced. The
first session of the afternoon entitled
‘Epistemic Security: informed
decision-making in democratic
societies’ was presented by Elizabeth
Seger from the University of
Cambridge. Elizabeth debated how in
modern society people struggle to
separate fact from fiction and to
identify trustworthy information
sources. She outlined how this poses
a substantial threat to a society’s
epistemic security, and society’s
ability to make well-informed
decisions and coordinate collective
action in response to a crisis.
Elizabeth used the global pandemic
as an example of how
communications to the general public
are not straightforward and how
conflicting information and
uncredible sources can lead to how
the general public use, and act upon
that information. Brian hosted an
insightful Q&A, following so, our
second virtual presentation of the
day hosted by Dr Aoife Hunt from
Movement Strategies (a GHD
company) took to the screen. Aoife
was also joined by and Simon Ancliffe
who joined in person on the stage for
a live Q&A session. Aoife challenged
how for many years, planning for
crowd safety focused on the risk of