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Dubai Security Consultant Appointment

23rd November 2021 12:54 pm Leave a Comment

SGW Safety & Security Limited are delighted to announce the appointment of Sheena Mathew to the position of Security Consultant, who re-joins the SGW Team, to be based at the company’s Dubai World Central (DWC) office.

Previously, Sheena was employed by Arkan Security Management Solutions in the capacity of Security Executive, where she provided security design and consultancy support for a number of UAE projects, including Nakheel Discovery Gardens and Salama Bint Hamdan Al Nahyan Foundation.

Sheena is an ASIS International certified Physical Security Professional (PSP) and an experienced Electronics Engineer who has worked throughout the Middle East for over 16 years. Her early career experience was gained by supporting well-known security systems integrators to develop design and estimations for security and life safety systems. Working from SGW’s Dubai office, Sheena has further developed her knowledge of security master planning and electronic + physical security design as a consulting engineer, working in support of SGW’s Senior and Principal security consultants. She has experience in Security and ELV design & estimation, with in-depth knowledge of various systems – CCTV, Access Control, Gate Barrier Systems, Bollards and Parking Management Systems.

SGW provides Security Consultancy and Studies from the UAE, under Dubai World Central Trade licence number 4894 and Dubai Security Regulatory Agency (SIRA) certificate number SSP20211031 6336. Sheena will support SGW to deliver such licenced consulting services in the UAE and the wider Gulf region.

Commenting on SGW’s Appointment, Simon Whitehouse, Managing Director at SGW said: ‘Sheena brings a strong security and telecoms design and engineering capability to SGW, having recently formalised her experience by becoming certified as an ASIS International Physical Security Professional (PSP).

I have previously had the pleasure of working with Sheena between 2012 and 2015 in Dubai and am delighted that she has chosen to re-join the company, to ensure SGW’s local qualified presence is maintained and strengthened, supported by our UK based team.

Download a PDF version of SGW – Consultant Appointment – Press Release 231121 here

City of London Corporation Appointment

25th July 2021 11:26 pm Leave a Comment

SGW Consulting Group are delighted to announce the City of London Corporation Appointment, for our risk consulting team to undertake a Security Review of its eleven social housing estate locations.

The City of London Corporation is a social landlord with 2,793 homes within 11 housing estates across the City of London and six London boroughs. The City of London has approached SGW to provide Security Reviews across its Social Housing Estates at Avondale Square Estate, Dron House, Golden Lane Estate, Holloway Estate, Horace Jones House, Middlesex Street Estate, Southwark Estates, Sydenham Hill Estate, William Blake Estate, Windsor House and Your Way Estate.

Each estate Security Review completed by SGW will incorporate a Security Threat and Risk Assessment, which intends to identify, recommend, and prioritise treatment strategies for operational Security risks to the complex, its location, and its stakeholders, by identifying threats and vulnerabilities (existing and/or proposed control measures) and considers the impact on operating objectives.

Throughout this assignment, SGW will engage and collaborate with The City of London Corporation stakeholders in applying Risk Assessment methodology, Risk Assessment Process, and a Risk Register.

SGW will build upon this process, applying ISO 31000, to ensure that the final report, which includes identification, evaluation, and analysis of Risk and a prioritisation risk matrix of areas and departments, is applicable for the client’s needs and can be used as a benchmark to apply additional security resources.

As part of the final Security Threat and Risk Assessment report, SGW will also apply a RAG (Red, Amber, Green) prioritisation for the eleven housing estates. This will be achieved through the application of SGW’s Comparative Risk Assessment Model (CRAM).

CRAM is a decision-making tool used to systematically measure, compare, and rank areas of risk. Its use is not confined to any single sector; moreover, it has utility in all areas of the security domain and across all sectors. Its principal benefits are;

– An objective approach to Security Risk Management

– A rationalised basis for Security Planning

– Prioritisation of resources and mitigation as required through a comparative process

– Bespoke to the scale and complexity of the project or individual estate

– A consistent approach to the evaluation of risks across multiple sites or multiple locations across one site

Commenting on the City of London Corporation Appointment, SGW’s Managing Director, Simon Whitehouse said; ‘Throughout SGW’s history, we have a strong track record supporting Social Housing & Arm’s Length Management Organisations to make their housing estates a safer place to live in for their tenants and work in by their staff’.

The City of London Corporation Appointment will ensure each estate is reviewed by highly qualified and experienced security professionals, who will adopt a software-based ISO 31000:2018 compliant Security Threat and Risk Assessment will provide our client with a dynamic and easy to audit assessment dashboard, which will summarise current and residual risk profiles for each housing estate, outstanding recommendations and risk mitigation prioritisation, with the ultimate aim to facilitate our client to make informed security improvement decisions.

For further information on SGW’s work in The Social Housing Sector, please visit our dedicated Social Housing Sector website page.

Launch of The Security Consortium

15th October 2020 12:51 am Leave a Comment

SGW is pleased to announce and support the launch of The Security Consortium.

Along with UK market leaders the Frontier Risks Group; Silverback Security Academy and Bucks New University, The Security Consortium has a mission to inspire and develop excellence in security, risk, and resilience through innovative, current, and collaborative learning opportunities, accredited qualifications, and support for the global, interconnected security profession.

The Security Consortium has launched a new website. Here, Learners, Clients, and Potential Partners can find out more.

Inaugural Board Meeting & Workshop

SGW’s Managing Director, Simon Whitehouse, and Senior Security Consultant, Alan Meyrick, attended the first workshop and board meeting for the newly-launched Security Consortium on 25 September at Missenden Abbey.

The event, hosted by Professor Phil Wood, CSyP, Head of School of Aviation and Security at Buckinghamshire New University, brought together the Consortium Board members for the first meeting since the Security Consortium launched in early September. The Security Consortium has been well received since its launch with a high degree of interest from across the security sector and the board was keen to build upon this initial success.

The workshop explored a number of key aims and detailed a strategy for the Security Consortium as we move towards 2021. The core aims addressed on the day were developing an ‘Associate’ and ‘Member’ framework, developing learning pathways to support those within the industry to meet career aspirations, and begin identifying avenues for future growth to ensure The Security Consortium continues to positively grow. One of the future aims of the consortium is the hosting of conferences, webinars, and events which ‘Associates’ and ‘Members’ will be welcome to attend.

SGW is delighted to be a key member of the Security Consortium and is excited to help develop the consortium as it evolves in the coming weeks and months. SGW shares a similar vision with The Security Consortium in relation to providing high-quality and innovative training programs that promote learning and knowledge transfer for security practitioners looking to enhance their careers.

Providing Learning Pathways & Choice

From short courses to master’s degrees for individuals or bespoke company and organisational development programmes, The Security Consortium has the answer.

A wide range of pathways is on offer which is intended to provide learners with freedom of choice to select the most suitably experienced professional provider of shorter security risk management, counterterrorism, and security engineering for the Built Environment professional courses, before using credits attained upon completion towards one of the academic security degree courses offered by Buckinghamshire New University.

The Security Consortium offers a wide selection of learning pathways within the Security Sector.

Commenting on the workshop and the Security Consortium, SGW’s Managing Director, Simon Whitehouse said “ The Security Industry presents many varied and rewarding career paths and lifelong learning opportunities, yet I am of the opinion that as an industry, we need to do more to formalize occupational standards and core competencies in various Security Disciplines, to give people from all age groups a clear learning pathway and to create more options for career transition and development of mature students. The Security Consortium founders are all passionate about improving standards, competencies, and career opportunities in our sector. We will offer seamless learning pathways for individuals to progress their security careers, from short specialist qualifications to academic degree programs.”

For more information on the Security Consortium, the current board, and how you could get involved, please visit; https://thesecurityconsortium.com/

SABRE Licenced Company

4th September 2017 6:13 pm Leave a Comment

SGW Becomes SABRE Licenced Company

SGW Safety & Security Ltd (SGW) are pleased to announce that we are one of the first companies to become a SABRE Licenced Company by BRE Global Ltd.

Both SGW’s UK and United Arab Emirates offices are included in the scope of SGW’s SABRE Company Licence; number SLC-004, from where SGW are currently able to offer SABRE Assessment Services internationally, per the scope and geographical reach of the company’s professional indemnity insurance provisions.

SGW Providing SABRE Certification

As a Sabre Licenced Company, SGW can provide the SABRE certification scheme to new and existing customers to recognise and reward best practice.

SGW are pleased to now offer SABRE assessments to those involved in a range of infrastructure operations and construction.

What is SABRE?

Sabre is a security risk assessment and certification scheme for new and existing buildings and built infrastructure assets.

SABRE is owned by the BRE Global Ltd (part of the BRE group), the international provider of robust, independent, third party certification of fire, security, and environmental products of services. SABRE is the result of fundamental scientific research funded by the BRE Trust.

Providing Sabre Assessment for new and existing buildings and built infrastructure assets.

SGW are licenced by BRE Global Ltd to provide Sabre Security Assessment.

The benefits of SABRE

SABRE has many benefits to industry stakeholders including:

• Improved design and construction quality
• Enhanced marketability of built assets
• Increased operational effectiveness
• Independent assurance of security performance
• Promotes value for money security solutions
• Benchmark your facilities across a portfolio and the wider sector
• Showcase your capability
• Attract security minded tenants and clients
• Insurance incentives

Who is SABRE for?

SGW are delighted to provide SABRE certification to clients across the following sectors, with the primary focus on the process of security risk management:

• Office
• Education
• Healthcare
• Residential
• Mixed use
• Data Centres
• Industrial
• Retail
• Other buildings

How does SABRE work?

The SABRE scheme incorporates nine technical stages and 70 assessment issues. To meet the criteria for SABRE certification, each stage has an aim accompanied by suitable metrics to demonstrate compliance.

To determine the approach to security of any new or existing building or infrastructure asset there are long-established principles of international management and risk management.

This includes:

• Establishing facility security requirements
• Managing security risks
• Planning and designing an appropriate security system
• Implementation of plans and, for existing facilities, managing change at a facility.

Assessment and Certification

To determine whether a building or built infrastructure asset meets the requirements of the SABRE scheme, the facility must be assessed by a SABRE Registered Assessor. SGW are licensed to provide this service and will work alongside the project team (new facilities) or building management (existing facilities) to gather evidence in support of the applicable scheme criteria.

Successful assessment results in a SABRE Rating and LPCB certification, which can be used to:

• Communicate the security credentials of the facility to internal and external stakeholders
• Measure facility performance and target areas for future improvement and investment
• Benchmark performance across a portfolio of assets
• Demonstrate that a project has delivered on contractual requirements.

SABRE Ratings

It is not possible to guarantee that a facility will be secure all the time. However, we can have increased confidence in a facilities ability to provide security. SABRE recognises this, and rates facilities on a sliding scale between ‘Acceptable’ (1 Star) and ‘Outstanding’ (5 Stars). The higher the rating, the more closely the SABRE framework was followed and the greater the level of assurance one can have in the approach to security risk management at a facility.

It is important to note that not all facilities need strive for the highest possible SABRE Rating. In some cases, ‘Acceptable’ may be good enough. Applicants are encouraged to seek advice from a SABRE Registered Assessor when determining a target SABRE Rating.

Commenting on the new SABRE security risk assessment and certification scheme, Simon Whitehouse, Managing Director of SGW said; I am delighted that SGW has become one of the first companies to be granted a SABRE Licence by BRE Global Limited. I firmly believe that the SABRE scheme will prove to be a highly-recognised means of ensuring that the security design and assessment process for built infrastructure assets is fit for purpose, commensurate with risk and third party certified to robust standards. Furthermore, I believe the recent launch of SABRE by BRE Global Limited is suitably timely given the content of the recent letter sent to all Local Authority chief planners in the UK by Stave Quartermain, CBE, Chief Planner at the Department for Communities and Local Government. Mr Quartermain’s letter reminded local planning authorities of the important role which the planning system has in ensuring appropriate measures are in place in relation to counter-terrorist and crime prevention security. I also believe SABRE will eventually be a key component in the future of how the planning system will be used to create safe and secure urban environments.

planning today PROTECTING TOMORROW

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