Source: SIA
The seventh Door Supervisors Network meeting will be held on Wednesday 31 March in Tiverton, Devon.
The event is being organised and facilitated by Petroc College, with the support of the Security Industry Authority.
The meeting is an opportunity for delegates working within door supervision to engage with the SIA and others in their industry and discuss issues affecting them.
Places are limited and there is a small charge to cover catering. If you would like to attend the meeting, please visit www.sia.homeoffice.gov.uk/ds-network to register your interest by 5 March 2010.
Source: Morning Advertiser
Fears have been raised about the timescale for making physical intervention training compulsory for doorstaff.
A course on physical intervention must be passed in order to get a Security Industry Authority (SIA) doorstaff licence from 31 August. The BIIAB’s SIA-approved qualification on physical intervention is to be launched on 1 June.
Speaking at the BIIAB conference in Coventry, one security provider said it would be difficult to get the training done in time, especially during the busy summer period.
BIIAB deputy director Denise Thomson said: “We’ve been working very, very hard to get agreement on the content. We all know the difficulties around physical intervention and we have to be absolutely sure we get it right now.”
SIA development manager Tony Holyland spelt out the need for such training: “We are aware of at least 13 deaths occurring because of ejections gone wrong.”
But he said any extra regulations must be “demonstratively proportionate” to the costs - “we are not here to add burden and another cost to the industry.”
Thomson said she believed the existing physical intervention course run by Maybo would be accredited under the SIA scheme. Holyland added: “That’s very much what I want to see happening.”