It is very important that land owners and event organisers can simply and quickly assess and understand the vulnerabilities of their organisations, buildings and activities.

There are Vulnerability Self-Assessment Tools (VSAT) available to make it an easy to access and simple way for organisations to assess where they may be exposed to security and continuity threats and suggests ways of addressing them. This should be seen as a major step forward for the UK in helping organisations understand the roles they have to play in ensuring the safety of our communities from terrorism threat.

The toolkits ask Questions covering: Physical Security, Personnel Security, Information Security, Good Housekeeping and Managing the Risk. They help to identify vulnerabilities, promotes reductions in vulnerabilities, measures reductions in vulnerabilities, enhances advice across the sectors and signposts best practice.

There are clear benefits of any organisation using these kind of tools; namely:

·       Bench mark against your risk register

·       Minimise disruption

·       Minimise Impact

·       Terminate parts of Risk

·       Provide Actions

·       Remove or Reduce Vulnerabilities

·       Insurance Cover

·       Invest in other areas of business

SL Consultants have undertaken Vulnerable Site Assessments for its clients giving them reassurance of the measures that need to be put in place.