Course Overview
Crime continues to be a major issue on the high street. Today’s retailers and retail workers need to be aware of and understand how to mitigate threats to their stock, premises, staff and customers.
This short online course provides critical insights into retail security and examines the key techniques involved in identifying and managing loss, as well as the essential security management knowledge and skills needed to work within the retail sector.
Key Details
£150 + VAT
core content
- The scale and impact of retail crime
- Causes and methods of retail crime
- Understanding ‘hot stores’, ‘hot products’ and ‘hot people’
- Retail risk assessments and security surveys
- What are CRAVED products and how to protect them
- Distribution and supply chain security
- How to use situational crime prevention to reduce loss
- Physical and electronic protection
- Getting the most from your security officers
- Planning and managing a retail loss reduction initiative adding value
- Current regulation and legislation
This online course will benefit anyone involved in the retail sector with responsibility for loss prevention.
It's delivered online, so is great for those with shift patterns and balancing personal and professional commitments.
WHO WILL BENEFIT
ABOUT THE COURSE
Alongside the huge emotional and physical impact on people, retail crime bears an enormous financial cost. The 2023 BRC Survey has revealed the total cost of retail crime in 2023 stood at over £2 billion – almost double the previous year.
If you work in the retail sector and are responsible in some way – either big or small – for the protection of retail assets, this short course provides critical insights into retail security and examines the key techniques involved in identifying and managing loss, as well as the essential security management knowledge and skills needed to work within the retail sector.
Explore the core principles of retail security and develop practical insights that will not only expand your understanding but also equip you with the tools to make additional meaningful contributions to current challenges within the workplace.
Learning & Assessment
This course is studied completely online, giving you the flexibility to work towards your career goals outside of your current commitments. This is an unaccredited course and therefore no formal assessment is required. Instead during the course you will encounter multiple choice questions designed to test your understanding of the subject.
Once you’ve successfully completed the course, you’ll receive 1 CPE point and a PerpetuityARC Training certificate.
Testimonials
“ The course has been of immediate help to me in my day-to-day work activities and has also equipped me with the tools to conduct reviews for our security and safety policy. ”
Rabi Karki
British Embassy, Kathmandu Security Institute BTEC Level 3 Certificate in Security Management
“The learning throughout all the courses is certainly relevant to current industry practises and would assist in the delivery and/or improvements of security within any organisation!”
Richard Robinson MBE
BTEC Level 4 Security Managers, BTEC Level 4 Risk, Crisis and Disaster Management, & Level 5 Diploma in Security Management
“I was attracted to the option of an e-learning programme because it meant that I could learn in my own time and work this around my job responsibilities.”
Lynsey Lenton
Experian BTEC Level 3 Security Institute Certificate in Security Management
“As an academic, I can confirm that the modules were well structured and delivered, complemented by the friendly and supportive Perpetuity tutors.”
Dr Chaditsa Poulatova
Advanced Diploma in Security Management
Please note we can only apply one discount per booking.