Managing Security Overseas: Protecting Employees and Assets in Volatile Regions
By Scott Ast, CFE
This book’s author is a CFE
This book's author is a CFE.
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Managing Security Overseas: Protecting Employees and Assets in Volatile Regions
Description
Threats to multinational corporations come in two forms: natural and man-made. This book illustrates the types of risks that confront corporations when working outside of North America. It provides key tools and understanding that are required to do business in a safe and secure manner, no matter the level of risk. It walks through a logical framework for safety and security program development from day one.
Providing a blueprint for establishing a safety and security program, this book explains how to:
- Identify natural and man-made risks, liabilities and security threats to employees and assets outside of the country
- Create pre-deployment training programs to provide personnel with resources to keep them safe
- Establish policies, procedures, programs and technologies for locating employees around the world at a moment’s notice
- Gear programs towards employees who do not feel the need to be protected
- Develop commingling crisis management and security plans for overseas projects
- Liaison with foreign law enforcement, government agencies and militaries, and how to best utilize U.S. and Western government resources
Product Details
| Label | Value |
|---|---|
| ISBN | 978-1-43-980467-4 |
| Publisher | CRC Press |
| Published | Copyright 2009 |
| Pages | 366 |
| Format | Hardcover |
Table of Contents
| Chapter 1 | Challenges to Security Management in Companies with Global and High-Risk Operations |
|---|---|
| Chapter 2 | Travel Tracking and Intelligence Issues: It's 3:00 a.m. - Do You Know Where Your Expats Are? |
| Chapter 3 | Risk Assessment Methodologies: The 5:00 p.m. Friday Telephone Call - "We've Got a Project Kicking Off Monday in Colombia" |
| Chapter 4 | Protecting People Who Don't Believe They Need to Be Protected: "I Would Prefer to Go Low Profile" |
| Chapter 5 | Security, Crisis Management and Evacuation Planning: The 2:00 a.m. Friday Telephone Call - "The Missiles Are Flying All Around Us!" |
| Chapter 6 | Crisis Management Do's and Don'ts: Pushing the Crisis Button |
| Chapter 7 | Protecting People and Assets Around the World: From Green Acres to the Green Zone |
| Chapter 8 | Predeployment and Security Awareness Training: "Tell Me Everything I Need to Know About This Country in About 15 Minutes" |
| Chapter 9 | Establishing and Maintaining Contact and Coordination with Local, Regional and International Authorities: "We Need a Favor, We Have People in Your Country That We Need Evacuated Now!" |
| Chapter 10 | Benchmarking International Crisis and Security Management: "Give Me One Good Reason Why Our Company Needs to Do This" |
| Chapter 11 | Maximizing Your Security and Crisis Management Efficiency: "How to Be All Things to All People, and Keeping It Real" |
| Appendix A | Emergency Management Plan |
| Appendix B | General Strike/Protest Overview |
| Appendix C | Bomb Threat Procedures |
| Appendix D | Security, Safety and Evacuation Plan |
| Appendix E | Workplace Violence Procedures |
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