Workplace Security Training – [Complete Video Kit]

This workplace security training video is a 23-minute program that teaches employees the everyday habits that keep a facility secure: knowing who is on the property and why, controlling visitors and delivery vehicles, spotting the doors, parking lots and storage areas where a business is vulnerable, and reporting what looks wrong. It is physical security first. A short segment near the end covers the cyber hygiene every employee needs (passwords, phishing, public Wi-Fi), because the same people who prop a door open are the ones who click the link.

It is built for a general audience: reception and front-desk staff, dock and warehouse crews, office employees, retail floors, and the managers assembling a security awareness program. Sold as a DVD or USB kit in English or Spanish, with the trainee quiz, sign-in sheet and certificate you need to document the training.

This Workplace Security Training Teaches the Following Important Concepts:

• What a workplace security program is and why it matters
• How to assemble a group of employees to create a security program for your business
• What within the business is valuable and at risk of being stolen, and why it should be cataloged
• What workplace security awareness means: employees always understand who is on the property and how the business is vulnerable to theft, crime or unwanted access
• How security awareness training keeps both the business and its employees safe
• What a security awareness program is and why every business should have one
• The facility’s points of vulnerability where outsiders could get in
• Which areas inside the business should have restricted access
• Examples of physical security measures a business can put in place (protective barriers, door locks, gates)
• The primary security measure for controlling access: the doors where people enter the building
• Which areas call for more secure doors (telephone and server closets, utility rooms, and rooms holding raw materials, finished goods or other valuable products)
• Why hardened locks matter

Additional Topics Covered in the Workplace Security Training:

• Why key card or keypad access beats regular keys, and how it supports employee security awareness
• Physical security tools that protect the facility (strong doors and locks, bulletproof glass, exterior lighting, alarms and surveillance cameras)
• Why parking lots are a particular concern for businesses and their employees (theft, vandalism, robbery and assault), and how that raises the need for security awareness
• Alarm systems a business might consider (intrusion alarms, duress alarms) and the role they play in reducing security risk
• What a security awareness policy is and why every business should have one; a clear policy also reduces workplace violence and other problems
• How to evaluate the reception area for vulnerabilities
• Best practices for customers and visitors on the property: everyone signs in and is escorted to their destination
• The key ideas about workplace violence every employee should know
• What the run, hide, fight principle means

Cyber Hygiene Segment

• How the business can be vulnerable to cybercrime, including access to employee or customer records and the company’s financial data
• Common precautions every employee can take: strong passwords, not opening suspicious emails, never using public Wi-Fi to reach company files
• How to coach employees to pick strong passwords (long, mixed case, symbols, never a child’s name, birth date or pet’s name)
• What phishing is and how employees avoid exposing the company’s systems to it, online and offline
• What a VPN (virtual private network) is and how it helps keep the business from being hacked

What Is in the Workplace Security Training Kit

• Full-length workplace security training video (22:48, English or Spanish)
• Trainee quiz and answer sheet
• Presenter’s guide
• Employee sign-in sheet
• Certificate of Completion, editable (name and date) and reusable for every session

How You Can Deliver the Training

The kit ships on DVD or USB stick in English or Spanish (each language is a separate kit). Play the video at a staff meeting, in a new-hire orientation or one-on-one at the front desk, hand out the quiz, and file the answer sheet, sign-in sheet and certificate with each employee’s training record. Everything in the kit can be reused for every new hire and every refresher. If you would rather assign safety courses online with automatic completion tracking, see our online safety training library of 250+ courses.

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Workplace Security Training Requirements

What OSHA Requires

There is no OSHA standard for workplace security training. What applies is the General Duty Clause, Section 5(a)(1) of the OSH Act, which requires every employer to keep the workplace free of recognized hazards likely to cause death or serious harm. OSHA treats workplace violence as one of those recognized hazards and cites employers under the General Duty Clause when a known risk goes unaddressed. Access control, visitor procedures, lighting, alarms and a trained workforce are the controls an employer can show for it.

Some states go further. California requires most employers to keep a written workplace violence prevention plan and train employees on it; that program is covered by our California workplace violence training kit, not this one. This workplace security kit supports the General Duty Clause obligation and gives you the quiz, sign-in sheet and certificate to document that the training happened. It is not an OSHA certification, and no such certification exists for workplace security.

Who Needs Workplace Security Training

• Front-desk, reception and anyone who controls building access
• Warehouse, dock and retail staff who see deliveries and visitors all day
• Office employees handling valuable equipment, data or cash
• Managers and HR building or refreshing the company security program
• New hires, as part of onboarding, because awareness habits form early

How Often to Retrain

OSHA sets no interval for security awareness training. Retrain when one of these happens:

• A theft, intrusion, threat or near miss at the facility
• A change in access control: new doors, key cards, alarms or visitor procedures
• A move, an expansion or a new shift that changes who is on the property
• Once a year as a refresher, which is the common practice and what the presenter’s guide is built for

Which Security or Violence Training Do You Need?

Workplace security is the everyday layer: access control, visitors, deliveries, parking lots and reporting, which makes serious incidents less likely in the first place. For the emergency-response layer, see our active shooter training kit. For a prevention-program course on recognizing and defusing threats between people, see our workplace violence training video. California employers with a written workplace violence prevention plan obligation should use the California workplace violence training kit. Most organizations run this security program for everyone and add the other layers on top.