Training on Fire & Safety Measures

Terrier Training Team comprising of 

Mr. Hemanth Kumar, Asst. Manager - Training, Mr. T R Anand, Executive - Training and Mr. Govindaraju R, Field Officer - Operations, conducted training on

"Fire & Safety Measures and First Aid" for the Employees / Satff of 

M/s Dynamatic Technologies Limited, Peenya, Bangalore.

Indoor Training Session in Progress

Training on First Aid

Casualty Evacuation Practice

Lady Volunteers

Demonstration on usage of Fire Extinguishers

 

Feedback on training as received by the Client is given below:

Buddhi at Home!

Inauguration of New Home of Buddhi School

08 Aug 2013

 

Personal Security - Tips

KARNATAKA TO E-PUBLISH DETAILS OF PRIVATE SECURITY GUARDS

KARNATAKA WILL BE THE FIRST STATE IN THE COUNTRY 

TO PROVIDE A DATABASE OF SECURITY PERSONNEL

Bhaskar Rao, Inspector General of Police, Internal Security.

Come 2014, and Karnataka will be the first state in the country to provide a database of security personnel, including their family background, previous employer, reason for quitting, and more importantly, biometric details. Additional Director General of Police (ADGP), internal Security, Karnataka, will be the ‘controller’ of these security agencies and their employees, keeping an eagle eye on the activities of the security personnel deployed at different organizations in various capacities.

The website database will contain details of their family b a c k g r o u n d and will help trace those with criminal antecedents. Besides, the site will double as a complaint box where the public can drop in their grievances. Bhaskar Rao, Inspector General of Police, Internal Security, said they are in the process of setting up the database and collecting details of various security agencies from across the state. “There are a total of 1,500 security agencies across Karnataka and 950 of them are licensed. A total of 4.65 lakh employees work as security personnel in different private organizations,” he said.

Rao feels when the police department has a disciplined database of its staff, there should be one for security personnel too, who are greater in number. “There are nearly 1lakh police personnel across Karnataka, ranging from DG-IGP to police constable, whereas security personnel are almost five times more,” he said. Rao said the website is yet to be named. The website will contain a detailed history of security personnel. The data will reveal the entire history of the staff, including their family background. This will help us trace personnel with criminal backgrounds and filter them. It will also help us recruit people with a clean background.

Source:  Security Today - Aug 2013

CLASSIFY SECURITY GUARDS AS SKILLED WORKERS - FICCI

FEDERATION OF INDIAN CHAMBERS OF

COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY (FICCI)

To give the private security sector a boost, industry chamber FICCI has urged the Labour Ministry to classify private security guards as skilled workers. “Despite performing work that requires special skills and training, private security guards continue to languish on minimum wages as unskilled workers,” the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) said in a release.

At present, the private security sector operates in over 550 districts, directly employing over 50 lakh individuals with an approximate turnover of Rs 20,000 Crore. “This makes the private security industry amongst one of the largest employment generating sectors in the country,” it said. The chamber said security guards were involved in highly skilled jobs such as access control using baggage X-ray machines and metal detection equipment at five-star hotels or guarding industrial complexes through use of CCTV surveillance systems or managing entry/exit of thousands of workers and vehicles outside IT parks or managing complex functions at private ports and airports.

“The model rules framed under the Private Security Agency Regulation Act 2005, the nodal Act for the industry, clearly defines the eligibility criteria for private security guards and supervisors,” the chamber said, adding that the Act clearly stipulated a minimum of 160 hours of training for private security guards, describing them as trained workers. Despite performing highly skilled functions, private security guards continue to be categorised as ‘unskilled workers’ and draw wages in line with the State minimum wages for the ‘unskilled category’. “Even the Central Minimum Wages notification No. SO 2232 (E) & 2233 dated 18.09.2008, private security guards are categorized as semi-skilled workers,” it says, adding that this was “not only gross injustice to over 50 lakh-plus workers employed in the sector but also in direct contravention to the laws of the land and directives of the Supreme Court of India.” FICCI has requested the Government to form a special ‘task force’ under the Ministry of Labour, with representation from the industry, to look into the issues affecting the private security workers.

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Source: Security Today Magazine -Aug 2013