Workplace Security


Overview/Description
Target Audience
Prerequisites
Expected Duration
Lesson Objectives
Course Number


Overview/Description
Employers must do what they reasonably can to ensure a safe and secure work environment. However, it is also the responsibility of every employee to be vigilant about security. This course covers ways employees can help reduce risks associated with physical security. It presents guidelines for controlling access to work areas and describes how to keep laptops, mobile devices, and other equipment secure, avoiding potential theft of such items. The course also covers general practices for ensuring physical safety and appropriate actions for employees to take in the event of potential situations that may be encountered in the workplace, particularly for those who work alone.

Target Audience
All employees

Prerequisites
None

Expected Duration (hours)
0.5

Lesson Objectives

Workplace Security

  • recognize ways to help control access to the building or site where you work
  • identify physical security vulnerabilities in relation to computers, laptops, mobile devices, and other work equipment and assets
  • recognize appropriate actions to take during an emergency
  • identify physical security vulnerabilities and recognize ways to control builiding access and actions to take during an emergency
  • take precautions to stay physically safe in situations where you may be vulnerable
  • identify how to respond to a threatening coworker
  • take precautions to stay physically safe and identify how to respond to a threatening coworker
  • Course Number:
    ehs_hsf_f48_sh_enus