The need for mail screener training
Over the past few years there has been a rise in the number of postal devices - letter bombs, parcel bombs, hate mail and other malicious mail containing hazardous material - being sent for political or religious reasons, for extortion and by mentally unstable individuals.
It is extremely difficult for mail screeners to detect these postal threats, without the correct postal security training, as the physical appearance of hate mail, letter bombs, and other threatening letters and packages is limited only by the imagination of the senders.
The traditional postal device takes many forms – parcels, padded "jiffy bags", envelopes and packages of any shape or size. They contain a range of hazardous materials including bombs, incendiary devices, hazardous chemicals such as Anthrax, razor blades, needles and broken glass.
It is therefore imperative that all personnel who screen mail receive training so that they can become familiar with the characteristics of suspect parcels, are able to detect them, and can follow correct procedures to mitigate the postal device threat.
Classroom Based Mail Security Training Course
Renful’s classroom based mail security training course fulfils any organisations mailroom security training needs. It uses experts in security training with vast experience of mail screener training to improve postal security awareness of personnel in the workplace, promote understanding of the threat posed by postal devices and provides essential procedures to cope efficiently with the threat.
Our classroom based mail security training course is designed for security officers, mailroom supervisors and staff, facility managers, office and building service managers, receptionists, secretaries and all personnel who normally screen mail either visually or with the aid of an x-ray machine.
Our course offers the following features:
Experience – Our instructors are security training experts, with extensive experience in all aspects of mail security.
Accessibility - Our courses can be conducted at your own premises to maximise your training needs and reduce expensive travel costs and meeting room hire.
Latest Training methods - All of our courses are conducted in an interactive style using the best in educational multimedia programs, DVD's, and real-life scenarios to supplement the training.
Customisation – As all organizations have different training needs, we customize our mail security training to your precise requirements.
Certification – Successful completion of all course modules Test earns you a Security Training Operations Programme (S.T.O.P.) Certificate of Accomplishment.
Typical Subjects included are:
- Introduction to the threat
- Past events analysis
- Suspicious signs
- Postal device threat indicators
- Postal IEDs (bombs)
- Contaminated mailings
- Projectile devices
- Non–lethal devices (broken glass, razor blades, etc.)
- Threat analysis
- Proactive mail security
- Developing a mail screening system
- Mail screening procedures
- Response procedures
Contact us for more information on our mail security courses