ISO 18788 specifies the requirements and provides
guidance for organizations that conduct or contract security operations.
Moreover, it provides a framework for establishing, implementing, operating,
monitoring, reviewing, maintaining and improving a Security Operations
Management System. It enables the constant development of security services,
while ensuring customer safety and respect for human rights. This standard
demonstrates compliance with laws and regulations, respect for human rights,
and the establishment of professional security operations to better meet the customer’s
and stakeholder’s needs.
The ISO 18788 standard provides a Management System
framework for Private Security Operations through elaborating on the principles
and requirements for establishing, implementing, operating, monitoring,
reviewing, maintaining and improving the management of safety operations.
ISO 18788 provides a business and risk management
framework for the effective conduct of security operations. It places a strong
importance in identifying your stakeholders, including employees, customers,
local communities and subcontractors. Moreover, this standard provides
assurance in the quality and expertise of security organizations working in
complex and fragile environments.
Optimise the effectiveness of your private security
operations.
— Provide an organisational framework for managing
activities and risks intended for bodies that conduct or that outsource
security operations.
— Demonstrate professional conduct in security
operations in order to satisfy customers and the other parties involved.
— Allow bodies and users of security services to prove
their commitment with regards to the legal requirements and good practices
found.
— Demonstrate your capacity to constantly propose
services that meet the needs of customers and that are compliant with
international, national and local law, as well as the requirements for
compliance with Human rights.
Certification of your security management system
according to the ISO 18788 standard must optimise the effectiveness of your
private security operations.
Frequency:
Validity of the certificate: 3 years.
The standard takes account of the following themes:
— Definition of the operational framework: context,
needs and requirements, definition of the risk criteria, definition of the
application scope.
— Policy: commitment of the management, commitment in
protecting Human rights, commitment in terms of resources, commitment to
continuous improvement.
— Scheduling: risk assessment, legal requirements, risk management
strategy.
— Implementation and conducting of operational
activities: operational control, skills, communication, role and
responsibilities, prevention and management of undesirable or disruptive
events.
— Performance evaluation: evaluation of
the compliance and of the performance of the system, exercises and tests,
internal audits, management review.
ISO 18788:2015 is
applicable to any organization those requirements to:
—
Establish, implement, keep up and improve an SOMS;
— Assess its conformity
with its stated safety operations management policy;
— Demonstrate its ability to continually offer services that meet client necessities and are in conformance with applicable laws and human rights requirements.
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