SIX ESSENTIAL AND ADAPTABLE COMPLIANCE FORMS FOR SECURITY CONTRACTORS
Team Software, CALSAGA Network Partner
As a leader of a security company, you’re simultaneously tasked with keeping the public safe while also trying to safeguard your employees. That’s extra challenging when combined with a rapidly changing regulatory environment that’s constantly evolving with new health, safety and training requirements.
Navigating this isn’t simple. It requires tools and innovations that are flexible and adaptable and can be easily adopted into your business operations. We’ve compiled a list of essential field-focused forms to help you navigate through this time using our mobile workforce management tool, Lighthouse.
Employee Safety Training and Acknowledgment
A simple form communicating risks and protocols to employees and capturing acknowledgment and understanding of these protocols can safeguard your officers and mitigate risk.
What to include:
- How to protect officers from exposure
- Recommended Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) and instructions for use and disposal
- What to do if close contact with an infected individual or area occurs
- Acknowledgment of understanding
PPE for Law Enforcement
If you operate law enforcement operations with direct physical contact to other individuals and potential exposure to blood, bodily fluids or any other potential infectious materials, PPE and Hazard Communication standards apply. Smart forms can aid you in meeting the training requirements associated with these guidelines and tracking acknowledgement from your officers and employees.
What to include:
- Minimum PPE recommendations and acknowledgment of receipt
- Instructions for application and use of equipment
- Instructions for disposal of equipment
- Instructions if close contact occurred during apprehension
- Acknowledgment of understanding
Visitor Screening Questionnaire
Security officers monitoring essential services sites that remain open during times of crisis are tasked with increasing screening responsibilities. In many cases, all visitors and entrants to the building must be screened. Forms can help streamline these visitor screening processes, ensuring standard execution by your officers and providing crucial reporting to your customers.
The basics in screening forms:
- Visitor details like name, contact information and purpose of visit
- Temperature
- Exposure risk assessment
- Instructions for permitted entries (i.e. sanitation and safety guidance)
Site/Building Assessments
These days, customers are asking their security contractors to be their eyes and ears across more functions, including for cleaning/contamination and management of other third-party contractors. Simple building inspection forms can help guide security officers through building inspections and provide an instant reporting service to your end-customers or their third-party contractors like janitorial and maintenance providers.
Potential assessment areas/criteria:
- Building traffic (i.e. people passing through or congregating)
- Safety or maintenance risks (i.e. spills, construction, alarms, etc.)
- Known or likely presence of bodily fluid(s) / contamination risks
- Suspected presence of infected individuals
- Other site-specific variables (i.e. healthcare environments, transport hubs)
Incident Tracking
Whether it’s a vandalism or looting incident, an employee who has fallen ill, a site decontamination effort or maintenance follow-through, identifying issues, taking action and delivering accurate reporting to your customers is especially critical right now. Timely, transparent reporting builds confidence and drives customer loyalty, and reporting on incident response helps you better deploy and manage your resources and risk.
What to track and report:
- Nature of the issue – categorize issues for standardized reporting and better analytics
- Description — who, what, where, why and include photos whenever possible
- Action taken
- Resolution
- Time to resolve
Creating standardized mobile forms can provide critical information and training, improve transparency to your customers, drive new revenue streams and safeguard your business against risk by demonstrating and proving good business practices. And, leveraging workforce management technology, like Lighthouse, to get these kinds of forms to the right people at the right time can help you stay in control during times of uncertainty. To read more about adaptable compliance forms for security contractors, visit the TEAM Software blog.