Cyber Security – A Good Practice Guide for Fire & Security Professionals

Skills for Security’s series of technical training webinars are an opportunity to upskill your knowledge, whilst gaining a recognised accredited certificate for participating. You will learn about the different transmission types for signalling, including IP, GPRS, GSM and PSTN. There will also be some key information related to the analogue switch off of our telephone network and how this will affect security systems. There will be technical information related to the standards, the grading and classifications used for signalling. Finally there is important information about ECHO and how this will be used to send effective and efficient signalling to police.

In partnership with ID Cyber Solutions, Skills for Security are proud to announce a new series of Cyber Security training courses at three separate levels. This first course gives candidates an opportunity to develop and upskill their knowledge whilst gaining a recognised accredited certificate for participating. Courses will be delivered fully remotely using our Learning Management System. All courses are available 24/7 through a mixture of pre-recorded content, course notes, activities and assessment.

The requirements to obtain a Systems Operative ECS Card have changed and you are now required to complete an ECS Fire Emergency and Security Systems (FESS) multiple-choice assessment and ECS H&S assessment to achieve the card. To support this SfS is offering a one-day online training course that aims to upskill engineers so they are ready to take the online multiple-choice FESS assessment. As part of this, the Fire, Emergency and Security Systems (FESS) industry has identified four occupations for a FESS Systems Operative in Fire Systems, Fire and Security Systems, Security Systems and Fire and Emergency Systems. This course will help prepare you to pass your ECS Health and Safety and FESS ONLINE Multiple choice assessment.

Skills for Security’s series of technical training webinars are an opportunity to upskill your knowledge, whilst gaining a recognised accredited certificate for participating. You will learn about the role of a fire risk assessor and what is competency in relation to fire risk assessing. You will cover the fire alarm design, installation and maintenance standards and the design classification for designing fire alarm systems, including the differences between, the siting of detectors to meet regulations, zoning both conventional and addressable fire alarm systems and the relevant standards for audible and visual warning devices.

Skills for Security’s series of technical training webinars & courses are an opportunity for experienced engineers & surveyors from the sector to upskill their knowledge, whilst gaining a recognised accredited certificate for participating. Courses will be delivered either via webinar or face to face deliver by one of our experienced technical tutors, with a short assessment at the end.

Skills for Security’s series of technical training webinars are an opportunity to upskill your knowledge, whilst gaining a recognised accredited certificate for participating. You will learn about what the purpose of carrying out a risk assessments achieves & how it helps with designing systems. An overview of what ORs might entail, importance of carrying out a site survey, documents used. Understand the purpose of grading and where grading should be applied when designing a system. Key areas of system design, learn the use of proper documentation that should be included within your system design proposal.