Security guards, be they employees or persons employed by a contracted security service, have important responsibilities to fulfill.
A responsible security guard is trained and actively ensures that lives and property are protected from natural or human events, be they accidental or malicious.
Similar to the role of the safety and health practitioner, the security should have the training (resulting in the knowledge and skills) and experience to prevent incidents from occurring as well as the competencies to intervene if an incident should occur.
Thus the security guard must be able to continually focus on prevention, protection and emergency intervention in dealing with the protection of lives and property.
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