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A product may be given a ‘Class’ level grading, way
meaning it has characteristics that will defend against The requirement to establish good relationships
surreptitious attacks, or a ‘Protection’ level, meaning with clients, partners and stakeholders cannot
it shows resistance to forced attacks. Occasionally, be overstated. This should include a shared
a product will be awarded both grades. The CPNI understanding of culture, processes, and information
evaluations are set well above the standard expected to work towards common goals. These partnerships
of a ‘normal’ security product, even the ‘lowest’ also include those with the local police and other
grading is an indication of a very capable product. parties to understand risk and situational awareness
for activities such as moving an abnormal load. A
Improving the security culture together planning workshop may be carried out to consider
It is important to have a good security culture in every eventuality and ensure all stakeholders will
organisations to mitigate against physical, cyber and deliver their part of the process.
internal threats. It also ensures that employees are
more engaged with security issues and act in a more CNI organisations in particular are vulnerable to both
compliant way. It helps to raise awareness of security supply chain failures and non-delivery from partner
issues across all employees, not just security officers, organisations, with any delays having a knock-on effect
which reduces the risks of security incidents and on overall service delivery. G4S works very closely with
breaches. It also improves overall security without its partners at all its CNI sites ensuring they support
the additional need for large expenditure. The CPNI each other with any challenges faced to get a speedy
provides crucial guidance and support for those in resolution. Every single day of missed work can be
CNI organisations. This includes marketing materials extraordinarily costly – keeping security present, fully
for use in awareness-raising campaigns and also tools compliant and operational is a requirement for critical
to assess and benchmark security culture, such as a infrastructure.
number of survey-based Security Culture Assessment
Tools (SeCuRE), which are widely used within the Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) plays an
nuclear industry. increasingly important part in shaping how G4S
delivers its services, ensuring a positive impact on
At HPC, G4S, as part of its larger safety campaign, society and taking account of environmental, economic
works with other partners to raise awareness of and social issues. G4S believes in embedding good
security to the various groups working on site, practices to support sustainability and add social
with targeted training and engagement activities. value, encouraging other service providers and
Campaign materials include a variety of resources, their suppliers to do the same. At HPC, G4S has
from screensavers and posters to banners and sourced all of its workforce from the local area,
videos. G4S also brings in specialists and guest 50% are veterans and many employees have been
speakers to talk to personnel. It works closely with offered apprenticeships. As well as off-setting carbon
a number of the Avon and Somerset police force, emissions and recycling, G4S contributes to the
who have been assigned to the project and with the site commitment of returning green sites back to
HPC Beat Team to ensure that the project does not greenbelt when the build is complete. One positive
negatively impact on local residents. environmental initiative undertaken recently was the
planting of 100 elm trees designed to offset the CO2
One of the most important contributions to emissions from the G4S vehicle fleet.
establishing a robust security culture is to invest
in training and development, something that G4S Noah Price is International Director of the G4S
knows is critical to do upfront in a contract, moving Academy which is responsible for sharing specialist
the agenda from having security, to having effective threat and security knowledge. It provides regular,
security. One of the issues with training, even more free security bulletins on potential threats, which
observed in CNI environments and especially nuclear can be a useful part of security planning. For more
settings, is the need to continuously train for events information on the threats facing CNI and what makes
that might (hopefully) never happen. However, if an good security read our guide: https://www.g4s.com/
incident does happen, it is likely to take place at very en-gb/what-we-do/security-solutions/securing-critical-
short notice and personnel need to quickly apply national-infrastructure
their expert skills and training.
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