Facilities Protection
Facilities Protection Training
Facilities Protection prepares serving security officers for the realities of guarding a working site — a refinery, an industrial plant, a government compound or a corporate headquarters. The role is wider than most assume: the officer on the gate is also the one who takes control when something goes wrong, and the first on scene when there’s a fire or a casualty. The course builds the procedure, judgement and qualifications to handle all three.
One officer, three jobs
A facility officer holds three jobs at once — deterring and stopping crime, responding when an incident happens, and managing fire and medical emergencies until the emergency services arrive. This course trains and tests all of it. It runs residentially around recognised qualifications and finishes with three assessed days of live scenarios that put the whole role under pressure.
Stopping Criminal Activity
Access control, screening, patrols and threat recognition that stop incidents before they start.
Responding to Incidents
Calm, proportionate control of disturbances, intrusions and security incidents — to procedure and the law.
Fire & Medical Emergencies
Qualified fire and first-aid skills to take charge of an emergency and protect people until responders arrive.
For serving officers
Facilities Protection is a progression course for people already working as qualified security officers, at the level appropriate to their role. It builds on what they already hold rather than starting from scratch.
Due diligence: every candidate’s standing as a currently qualified, serving security officer is checked and evidenced at enrolment.
Two routes
The course runs as two routes. They differ only on the first-aid and fire qualifications — the rest of the training is identical. Route Two is the step up for officers who need advanced trauma care and the authority to run an evacuation.
FAW + Fire Awareness
- First AidFAW (incl. CPR, AED & BLS)
- FireFire Awareness (L1)
- SearchVehicle & person search, screening
- PlusFull security module set
- Assessed2-day validation + 1-day confirmation
FAW + FPOSi + Fire Marshal
- First AidFAW → FPOSi
- FireFire Marshal / Warden (L2)
- SearchVehicle & person search, screening
- PlusFull security module set
- Assessed2-day validation + 1-day confirmation
What you walk away with
Regulated qualifications QNUK · RQF
First aid — FAW, and FPOSi on Route 2
Every officer qualifies in first aid, covering CPR, defibrillator use and life support. Route Two adds FPOSi, which takes the officer into pre-hospital trauma care — including the management of ballistic and blast injuries — built on the FAW foundation. Both awards are issued.
First Aid at Work — CPR, AED, life support and the common workplace emergencies. Valid three years.
First Person on Scene (International) — trauma-focused pre-hospital care for high-risk settings.
Fire — Awareness, and Fire Marshal on Route 2
Route One qualifies every officer in fire awareness — how fire behaves and what to do when the alarm sounds. Route Two steps up to Fire Marshal, the person who takes charge of an evacuation, including personal emergency evacuation plans for those who need help getting out.
Fire-safety principles, fire controls and the right actions in an emergency.
The marshal / warden role — leading a safe evacuation, including PEEPs.
Vehicle Searching
The method and discipline of searching a vehicle properly at the point it enters or leaves a site.
Venue Security Operations
The core of the officer’s day-to-day: controlling entry and screening people with hand-held and walk-through metal detectors, keeping account of everyone on and off site, searching people and areas, reading behaviour for early signs of trouble, and running a structured response to an incident alongside the emergency services.
Britannia Elite modules CPD · TVET
Professional Conduct & Security Mindset
The standards a professional officer is judged by — bearing, communication, duty of care, and how they handle the public and difficult situations.
Access Control & Entry Management
Access control is the front line of site security. Officers manage visitors, contractors and deliveries, keep clean and accurate records, and apply the tighter controls that oil & gas and high-risk industrial sites demand.
Patrols & Area Monitoring
A good patrol finds the problem before it grows. Officers learn to cover a site inside and out, read it for hazards and weak points, watch restricted areas, and report what matters.
Communication & Reporting
Clear radio work and accurate paperwork hold an operation together. Officers learn disciplined comms, sound incident reports and logs, and how to move information up the chain quickly.
Legal & Compliance
An officer needs to know exactly where their authority starts and stops. This covers powers and their limits, duty of care, and working within the law and the site’s own rules.
Explosive Threat Awareness & 5Cs
Recognising a possible device, applying the 5Cs and clearing people safely through to an EOD hand-over. Covered in full below.
ICP & Emergency Services Liaison
When the emergency services take over, the officer becomes their eyes and voice on site — supporting the incident command point and acting as a single, clear point of contact.
Rendezvous Point (RVP) Procedures
Getting the emergency services to the right place by the safest route — setting and running a rendezvous point and keeping access clear.
Single-Shooter Awareness & Response
Reading the warning signs, putting the site’s response plan into action, supporting lockdown and evacuation, and reporting accurately under pressure.
The course is built around QNUK qualifications and delivered by QNUK-approved instructors. QNUK is an awarding organisation regulated by Ofqual, and the wider course is CPD-certified and mapped to Uganda’s TVET framework.
Search and screening, hands-on
Search and screening is taught and assessed by doing it — on vehicles, on people, and with the detection equipment officers will use at a controlled access point.
Vehicle Search
Searching a vehicle at entry and exit — mirrors, lights and a proper, repeatable method.
Person Screening & Entry
Screening people on the way in with hand-held and walk-through metal detectors, and keeping a clear account of who is on site.
Area Search
Searching an area systematically, spotting what doesn’t belong, holding a safe distance and reporting it.
Recognise, react, evacuate
Officers learn to recognise a possible device, stay calm and run a controlled evacuation around it. The drill ends at a safe hand-over to EOD — no officer ever touches, moves, approaches or attempts to deal with a suspect device.
Recognising a threat
Unusual or Out-of-Place Items
Abandoned bags, packages or objects that don’t belong — especially when left unattended in a sensitive or busy area.
Ground & Placement Signs
Disturbed ground, recent digging, concealment or deliberate placement near access points, routes or the perimeter.
Vehicle (VBIED) Indicators
Vehicles parked oddly, heavily laden, abandoned or out of place near the site or its approaches.
Behaviour & Pattern Changes
Hostile reconnaissance, unusual interest in security, and changes in the normal pattern of activity.
The 5Cs
Confirm
Confirm a suspect device from a safe distance, by observation only — look, don’t touch, move or approach.
Clear
Clear people away to a safe distance, behind solid cover and away from windows where possible.
Cordon
Set a cordon to the site’s procedure, keeping people out of the danger area and protecting the scene.
Control
Control access in and out of the cordon, account for people, and stop anyone re-entering.
Communicate
Get word up the chain and to the emergency services straight away, with clear, accurate information.
Actions on a find & evacuation
Don’t touch, move or approach
Leave the item as found, and follow site policy on radios and mobiles near a suspect item.
Move people to safety
Evacuate along planned safe routes, away from the item and behind cover — never towards or past it.
Set the cordon
Apply the site evacuation and cordon plan, keeping everyone outside the danger area.
Control access & account for people
Stop anyone entering, and account for staff, visitors and contractors against the records.
Run the RVP
Guide the emergency services in via the rendezvous point and keep access routes clear.
Brief & hand over
Brief responders and EOD with the location, description and actions taken, then hand over the scene.
Recognition and safe response only
Officers learn to recognise a threat, protect people and run a controlled evacuation. They are not taught device handling or disposal — that stays with qualified EOD personnel.
Three assessed days
The course ends with a two-day validation exercise and a final one-day confirmation exercise — live scenarios and role-players, with airsoft used only for realism.
Live Facility Scenarios
Corporate, industrial and oil & gas settings, including busy sites and restricted areas.
Role-Players
Staff, visitors, contractors and members of the public — including difficult or non-compliant people, within safe limits.
Airsoft for Realism
Used only for sound, pressure and situational awareness. No weapon handling or combat instruction.
Confirmation Exercise
A final day that puts the whole skill set together under live, time-pressured conditions.
Assessed on
On completion
- Carry themselves professionally on site
- Run access control and entry confidently
- Account for everyone on and off site
- Patrol effectively and spot risks
- Search vehicles and screen people to standard
- Use hand-held and walk-through metal detectors
- Manage a fire and support a safe evacuation
- Give first aid in a medical emergency
- Recognise an explosive threat and evacuate safely
- Apply the 5Cs through to EOD hand-over
- Respond properly to security incidents
- Hold up under pressure in live assessment
What you receive
The Britannia Elite Facilities Protection Certificate, plus:
- Both QNUK L3 First Aid at Work (incl. CPR, AED & BLS)
- Route 2 QNUK L3 FPOSi (International)
- Route 1 QNUK L1 Fire Awareness at Work
- Route 2 QNUK L2 Fire Safety for Fire Marshals
- Both QNUK L2 Vehicle Searching
- Both QNUK L2 Venue Security Operations
- Explosive Threat Awareness & 5Cs
- ICP & Emergency Services Liaison
- Rendezvous Point Procedures
- Single-Shooter Awareness & Response
Training, not legal authority
These qualifications prove training and competence. Licensing remains with the learner and their regional authority.
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