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Training - Transit Security Courses
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Length: 4 1/2 days
Materials Fee: $65
CEUs: 3.4
Course Overview
Participants will receive the necessary information to develop a system security program plan and implement the program. They will be shown how to use resources to reduce crime and improve passenger and employee security. This course provides participants with a uniform format for developing and implementing security policies and procedures through a system security program plan with crime prevention as the major component. Included are basic security terms, the eight steps in threat and vulnerability identification, and resolution process. The course addresses security in system planning, design and construction, agency policies and procedures, managing special security issues, and various types of transit security staffing.
Course Elements
- Introduction to system security
- Why transit security
- Terrorism
- Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD)
- Handling WMD threats
- Developing a System Security Program
- Development of a System Security Program Plan and
security policies and procedures
- Threat and Vulnerability Assessment (TVA)
- Procurement and security activities
- Incident command system and coordination of response
efforts and resources (NIMS/NRP)
- Security force establishment
- Problem oriented/problem solving security
- Managing the media
- Crime prevention
- Selling security to management and the public
- Group exercises: Security issues and TVA/Security
Assessment
- Pretest, quiz, final exam
Who Should Attend
| Security Plan Developers |
Security Plan Administrators |
Security Plan Implementers |
| SSO Personnel |
Safety Directors |
General Managers |
| Law Enforcement Personnel |
Risk Management Personnel |
Security Personnel |
| Human Resource Personnel |
Operations Personnel |
Maintenance Personnel |
| Federal, State, Local Officials |
Transit Consultants |
Security Technology Vendors |
| Procurement Personnel |
Transit Security Personnel |
Transit Insurance Providers |
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Length: 3 days
Materials Fee: $80
Course Prerequisite Successful completion
of FT00432 - Transit System Security
Course Overview
This course is designed to aid transit safety and security personnel who need to have a proactive impact on the design review process during design and construction of new facilities, new starts, rehabilitation of existing facilities, or extensions to current systems. This will allow for the reduction of crime and improvement of employee and customer security. This course is beneficial to those individuals who need to understand the Design Review process.
Course Elements
- The project’s big picture
- Identifying security within the project
- Security certification process
- Roles and responsibilities in security
- Project management view of security
- The value in value-engineering
- Basis of design - project requirements
- Principles of Transit Security Design Considerations
- Preliminary design
- Design development phases
- Final design phase and bidding
- Effective design reviews
- Construction and closeout
- Types of contracts
- Tabletop exercises
- Pretest, final exam
Who Should Attend
| General Managers |
Safety Directors |
Human Resource Personnel |
| Risk Management Personnel |
Operations Personnel |
Maintenance Personnel |
| Transit Security Personnel |
Law Enforcement Personnel |
Security Technology Vendors |
| Transit Consultants |
Federal Security Personnel |
State Security Personnel |
| Procurement Specialists |
SSO Personnel |
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Length: 2 days
Materials Fee: $95
CEUs: 1.5
Course Prerequisite
Successful completion of FT00538 - Transit System Security: Design Review
Course Overview
Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (CPTED) links system security concepts and initiatives to the System Safety Program Plan early in the transit life cycle. The course emphasizes and enhances industry training by incorporating preventive measures into the facilities design and operations planning. For agencies to be in compliance with the State Safety Oversight regulation, it is critical to plan and design safety and security into all aspects of physical and operational systems.
Course Elements
- Review of basic concepts; Advanced assessments of risks
and vulnerabilities
- Technology and equipment
- Audit checklists
- Best practices; Strategies
- Architectural design and space management concepts
- Environmental aims through space planning and behavioral
concepts
- Crime as it relates to physical environment and law
enforcement
- Crime prevention steps; reducing criminal opportunity
- Principles of Transit Security Design Considerations
- Engineering CPTED into the transportation agency
- Electronic, mechanical, and physical equipment and
material needed to enhance security
- Alarm and intrusion systems; security personnel
- Exercise: informal site audit
- Pretest, final exam
Who Should Attend
| Transit Managers |
Executive Managers |
Safety Managers |
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Safety Supervisors |
Risk Managers |
Engineers |
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Auditors |
Corrective Action Personnel |
Security Program Planners |
| Security Plan Developers |
Security Plan Administrators |
Security Plan Implementers |
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Length: 4 days
Materials Fee: $55
Course Overview
This course will provide information on understanding the importance, purpose, development, and implementation of emergency management and how it relates to the other safety functions of a transit system. Participants will learn how to better understand the emergency management concept and the role of the transit system in responding to emergency/disaster situations in both the community and transit system. The course provides information which can be used to introduce emergency management into the acquisition and operational phases of a transit system life cycle and thereby implement or improve emergency management programs. They will be prepared to understand the elements of an effective emergency management program and how interaction of these elements affects the management of the emergency situation as well as the roles and responsibilities of community officials, transit system personnel, and fire, police, EMS, etc., including the key issue of the importance of dealing with the media quickly, accurately, and professionally.
Course Elements
- Nature of emergencies and disasters; emergency management concepts
- Development of an emergency management plan; emergency management training
- Incident command system and coordination of response efforts and resources (NIMS/NRP)
- Acquisition
- Managing media relations
- Pretest, tabletop simulations, group exercises, quizzes, final exam
Who Should Attend
| Security Managers |
FEMA Responders |
Community Emergency Reps |
| General Managers |
Safety Managers |
Law Enforcement |
| Operations Managers |
Risk Managers |
Fire Protection Personnel |
| Security Supervisors |
Field Supervisors |
Public Relations Officers |
| Operations Supervisors |
State Safety Oversight Reps |
Emergency Plan Implementers |
| Emerg. Medical Responders |
Emerg. Plan Administrators |
Emerg. Plan Developers |
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Length: 5 hours
Materials Fee: None
Seminar Overview
This seminar demonstrates how to prepare for and initially respond to acts of terrorism involving explosives, how to implement a plan and procedures to respond to an explosive incident, and how to manage an incident and the media. Participants are trained in general security awareness in the transit environment and how to identify flaws in facility or vehicle design and discourage criminal activity. Two seminars are conducted at the host site; on the afternoon of the first day and on the morning of the next day to encourage agency participation.
Seminar Elements
- Threat identification
- Explosive components recognition
- Improvised explosive devices
- Explosive Incident Management Plan development
- Threat management
- Search procedures in the transit environment
- Incident command system and coordination of response efforts and resources
(NIMS/NRP)
- Hardening the target
- Presentations from local police department bomb technician
Who Should Attend
| Executive Managers |
Security Managers |
Security Personnel |
| Risk Managers |
Operations Managers |
Safety Managers |
| Safety Supervisors |
Fire Protection Personnel |
Housekeeping Personnel |
| Facility Maint. Personnel |
Emerg. Medical Responders |
Law Enforcement Personnel |
| Bomb Threat Responders |
FEMA Personnel |
Civil Defense Personnel |
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Length: 4-5 hours
Materials Fee: None
Seminar Overview
Participants will be shown how to respond to acts of terrorism, including workplace violence, and how to develop and implement plans and procedures to respond to bus or rail (or both depending on the hosting agency) hijackings. Participants will learn how to gain access to a bus or rail vehicle and resolve the incident with minimal public endangerment. Hosting agencies may opt to sponsor an in-house simulation exercise.
Course Elements
- Introduction to the threat
- Weapons of Mass Destruction
- Response to bus or rail hijacking
- Managing the media
- Communication between agencies
Who Should Attend
| Executive Managers |
Security Managers |
Security Supervisors |
| Safety Managers |
Safety Supervisors |
Risk Managers |
| Operations Managers |
Operations Supervisors |
Field Supervisors |
| Federal, State, Local Officials |
Emergency Responders |
Emerg. Plan Developers |
| Community Law Enforcement |
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