Security Guard Certification

This security guard certification helps to better protect your customers, team members, and cannabis businesses from all types of criminal activity whether it’s external robbery threats or internal employee diversion. To succeed security professionals need clear, consistent training that keeps them on the leading edge of industry trends and best practices that are mandated. This certification helps to bridge the knowledge gap that’s needed to always protect the cannabis industry.

Legal cannabis operations are rapidly expanding so leverage this certification to teach the physical security principles for your cannabis facility with ever-changing government compliance requirements that are producing new challenges for any security professionals. With the high risk of theft and easy-to-move products in the cannabis industry, security professionals need to be knowledgeable about risks to be well-informed and trained to be successful in this ever-growing marketplace.

Regulations typically require that licensed cannabis facilities employ a designated security manager and guards who are responsible for all security operations. Cannabis businesses include retail stores, warehouses, greenhouses, outside grow operations, transportation, etc. so like many other specialty products, this creates its own unique security challenges. Managers and non-security managers can benefit from security knowledge that includes cash management, high value, high demand, easily transported, easy to sell, and virtually impossible to trace.

Security managers are typically former law enforcement officers or military veterans hired to provide security service, but regardless of previous experiences, remember, dispensaries have a distinct difference in the business community, all security personnel is required to provide the same types of services and job duties. Topics in this series of training include perimeter security, keys and locks, security design, lighting, access control, CCTV systems, and intrusion detection.