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Elements and Performance Criteria

1. Confirm, verify and communicate security risk situations.
   • Review workplace procedures and policies including workplace health and safety (WHS) to ensure compliance with legal rights and responsibilities and own role and authority for responding to security risk situations.
   • Receive and verify information on security risk situation and confirm risk authenticity, in consultation with relevant persons.
   • Monitor the work environment to promptly identify changing circumstances and factors that may impact security risk.
   • Maintain accurate and up-to-date information exchange to clarify risk situation with relevant persons.
2. Assess security risk situations and formulate response options.
   • Assess security risk situation to establish nature and degree of risk to people, property and premises.
   • Formulate security risk response options that are appropriate to the nature and degree of risk and comply with workplace policies and procedures.
3. Evaluate and implement security response.
   • Evaluate security response options and select preferred control measure to address known and potential risk factors.
   • Ensure that security response is within scope of own competence and authority and maximises the safety and security of people, property and premises.
   • Select and use equipment and resources to implement security response.
   • Review and adjust security response to adapt to changing risk circumstances in consultation with relevant persons.
   • Report security situation and response details using workplace documentation.
   • Secure and preserve incident scene and maintain security following response procedures.