Personnel Security

Question 1

What is the typology of workplace violence incidents used by US occupational health and safety agencies?

Answer 1

Type 1 - no relationship between assailant and victim, eg robbery;
-Type II - customer/client/patient violence;
- Type III - worker on worker violence;
-Type IV - violence stemming from a personal relationship

Question 2

An employer may not question an applicant about what?

Answer 2

An arrest for a crime against property.

Question 3

What is a background investigation?

Answer 3

A fact-finding process of logically, methodically and lawfully gathering and documenting information about an individual’s background.

Question 4

What are two broad reasons an employer should perform background screening and vetting?

Answer 4

Providing a safe work environment and protecting people; Making the best hiring decision.

Question 5

What are the three key elements of the vetting process?

Answer 5

• Identity verification;
• personal history verification; and
• credentialing

Question 6

What steps are taken during the initial applicant screening?

Answer 6

Application review and interviews

Question 7

What are the 5 domains of executive protection?

Answer 7

• corporate
• celebrity
• government
• faith-based, and
• hybrid

Question 8

What is a close protection team?

Answer 8

The individuals who provide the final layer of protection for a principal.

Question 9

What is the first step in building an executive protection program?

Answer 9

Assessing the risk to the individual, family or organization being protected.

Question 10

What is executive protection?

Answer 10

The security and risk mitigation measures taken to ensure the safety of individuals who may be exposed to elevated personal risk because of their employment, high-profile status, high net worth or various affiliations.

Question 11

This theory posits that the opposite of satisfaction is not dissatisfaction but simply no satisfaction. It also holds that two sets of factors determine a workers motivation, attitude and success. It is?

Answer 11

Hertzberg’s theory.

Question 12

What theory assets that job content (motivators) such as achievement, recognition, responsibility and satisfaction are derived from the work itself?

Answer 12

Hertzberg’s theory.

Question 13

ABC Inc. wants to initiate an effort to identify and classify security access levels for proprietary information. Who would typically approve any disclosure of such information?

Answer 13

The owner of the information.

Question 14

The primary purpose of a background investigation is?

Answer 14

To prevent losses and mitigate damages.

Question 15

What is the basic starting point for preemployment screening?

Answer 15

The employment application

Question 16

What is a needs assessment?

Answer 16

A means to evaluate the presence of any specific risks of violence affecting the workplace (from either internal or external sources)….and…..the organization’s readiness to respond to threats and violent incidents.

Question 17

Active assailants vs. terrorists?

Answer 17

Active assailants are usually not politically motivated and are more often linked to:
-bullying
- troubled interpersonal relationships,
- employer-related issues; and
- mental health problems

Question 18

Three phases of post-incident recovery that may overlap and can run concurrently are?

Answer 18

• Immediate recovery plan;
• short-term recovery plan, and
• Long-term recovery plan

Question 19

Possible company losses if an executive is kidnapped, include?

Answer 19

• reduction in stock prices;
• loss of personnel; and
  -loss of services

Question 20

The EP specialist (EPS) is the person who ?

Answer 20

Performs the in-person, up-close work with the executive; who walks, rides and flies with the executive.

Question 21

key phrase to remember in EP is ?

Answer 21

Use your resources, meaning law enforcement contacts, news and briefings and networking.

Question 22

Information Sharing and Analysis Centers (ISACs)

Answer 22

Several industrial sectors -chemical or financial services - have ISACs that share threat information and solutions and are potentially powerful sources of information.