Foreword
Committees responsible
Introduction
Section one. General guidance
Section two. Management aspects of security
Section three. Planning and design
Section four. Selecting and adapting existing
premises
Section five. Windows
Section six. Locks and other security hardware for
doors and shutters
Section seven. External doors
Section eight. Doors and shutters for goods
Section nine. Glass and plastics glazing sheet and
glazing
Section ten. Roofs, walls and other parts of the
structure
Section eleven. Site perimeter
Section twelve. Lighting
Section thirteen. Intruder detectors and alarms
Section fourteen. Closed-circuit television (CCTV)
Section fifteen. Access control
Section sixteen. Goods vehicle security
Section seventeen. Procedures for goods storage, despatch
and receipt
Section eighteen. Strongrooms, safes, theft of
information, cash offices
Section nineteen. Hazardous goods and dangerous
substances
Section twenty. Security staff
Appendices
A. Preliminary advice for new owners and managers
B. Security staff
C. Conditions of service of staff
D. Key security and keyholders
E. Lighting
F. Intruder alarms
G. Closed-circuit television (CCTV)
H. Telephones
J. Goods vehicles
K. Private and company cars
L. Goods storage
M. Goods despatch
N. Goods receipt
P. Reception of visitors
Q. Precautions against theft and fire-raising
R. Cash control
Tables
1. Guide to hardware for hinged exit doors which need
to be locked from outside the building or premises
2. Guide to locks and other security hardware for
doors secured from the inside
3. Locking and securing roller shutters
4. Locking and securing sectional overhead doors
5. Locking and securing up-and-over doors
6. Locking and securing sliding-folding shutter doors
7. Locking and securing sliding doors
8. Locking and securing large-panel slide-around-
corner doors without independently-hinged panels
9. Locking and securing large-panel slide-around-
corner doors with an independently-hinged leading
panel
10. Locking and securing large-panel slide-around-
corner doors with an independently-hinged trailing
panel
11. Locking and securing large-panel sliding-folding
doors without independently-hinged panels
12. Locking and securing large-panel sliding-folding
doors with an independently-hinged leading panel
13. Locking and securing large-panel bi-folding doors
14. Locking and securing wicket doors
15. Relating perimeter security lighting schemes to risk
(some examples for chain link fencing)
16. Types of detectors related to locations
17. Brief description of detectors
18. Effect of environmental and other variables on ultra-
sonic, passive infra-red and microwave detectors
Figures
1. Major aspects of security
2. Typical window bars (viewed from inside)
3. Typical cross section of a roof grille showing how
it is embedded into the building structure
4. Typical secure mortice deadlocks and box striker
plate
5. Typical hook bolt mortice deadlock
6. Typical rim automatic deadlock
7. Typical rim automatic deadlatch
8. Typical surface-mounted cylinder locks and latch
for shutters
9. Typical multi-point bolt and locking units
10. Typical robust padlockable bolts
11. Typical small bolts for personnel doors
12. Typical butt and security hinges
13. Typical security padbars and concealed shackle
padlocks
14. Typical padbar and cross bar for close shackle
padlocks
15. Typical push-button switches and switch locking box
16. Typical panic bar and bolt, single-leaf door
17. Typical spring-loaded escape bolts
18. Typical break-glass security deadlocks
19. Typical emergency locking latch
20. Typical master key systems
21. Typical high security steel door
22. Typical steel strongroom door
23. Typical chain-operated roller shutter door (viewed
and secured from inside)
24. Isometric view of typical sectional overhead door
with locks fitted (viewed and secured from inside)
25. Typical up-and-over door (viewed and secured from
inside)
26. Typical plan view of a meeting shield attached to
one of a pair of sliding-folding shutter doors
27. Typical sliding-folding shutter doors with locks
fitted (viewed and secured from inside)
28. Typical sliding single-leaf door (viewed and secured
from inside)
29. Typical large-panel slide-around-corner single-leaf
door without independently-hinged panels (viewed in
the open position and secured from inside)
30. Typical large-panel slide-around-corner single-leaf
door with an independently-hinged leading panel
(viewed in the open position and secured from inside)
31. Typical large-panel slide-around-corner single-leaf
door with an independently-hinged trailing panel
(viewed in the open position and secured from inside)
32. Typical pair of free-floating large-panel sliding-
folding doors without independently-hinged panels
(viewed and secured from inside)
33. Typical large-panel sliding-folding door with an
independently-hinged leading panel (viewed and
secured from inside)
34. Typical large-panel bi-folding double-leaf doors
(viewed and secured from inside)
35. Typical grille and collapsible gate
36. Plan view of pipe held by continuous steel angle
to prevent climbing
37. Typical chain link fence with cranked top (viewed
from inside)
38. Typical welded mesh panel fence with barbed wire
and razor edge tape coil topping (viewed from
outside)
39. Typical expanded metal panel fence with anti-scaling
barrier
40. Typical steel palisade fence (viewed from outside)
41. Typical lamps
42. Typical luminaires
43. Typical secure, rapid and continually monitored
alarm transmission paths for alerting Police and
other emergency services
44. Typical digital communication of alarm signals to
an alarm company's remote monitoring centre for
alerting Police and other emergency services
45. Typical places where the serial number of a safe can
be located
46. Indication of dangerous substances on containers
and packages
47. Explanation of hazard warning panel
48. Examples of hazard warning panels
49. Sign for buildings where pesticides are stored