Service 04

Manned guarding

On-site officers for retail, construction, offices, warehouses and industrial parks.

The service

From building sites to supermarkets, K1 provides on-site security officers for places that need a person present. The officer is based at the premises for the hours you book. The role is agreed around the site: who is allowed in, what is being protected, and how the day or night actually runs.

Based in

Bridgwater, Somerset

Working across Somerset and the South West. Call 0330 001 1249 or send an enquiry and name this service.

What manned guarding means

Manned guarding is an officer assigned to a site for a shift. They stay. A patrol visits and moves on; a guard is the person on that premises while the shift lasts. K1 describes the work as running from building sites to supermarkets, and publishes five kinds of site: shopping and retail outlets, construction sites, office buildings, warehouses and industrial parks.

The duties change with the building. A shop may need a visible presence among customers. A construction site may need the gate watched and the plant accounted for after the workforce leaves. An office may need someone on the door during the day and a lock-up check at night. A warehouse or an industrial park is often about gates, yards and who is allowed into the loading area. The assignment states which of those jobs this officer is there to do.

What the law expects of contracted guarding

Where a security company supplies someone to guard premises against unauthorised access, damage or disorder, that is manned guarding under the Private Security Industry Act 2001. The operative needs the right SIA licence for the activity. A security guarding licence covers guarding premises and property. It does not cover door supervision at licensed premises. A door supervisor licence covers both door work and security guarding.

K1 states SIA licensing for its door supervisors. For a guarding assignment, the role is agreed so that the work and the licence match. K1 does not describe itself as an approved contractor, and it does not publish a claim of ISO or other certification. What it does publish is the type of site and the fact that the officer’s duties are set around that site.

How an assignment is written

Before the first shift, both sides should be able to answer a short list. Which hours. How many officers. Where they stand or patrol. Who they let in. What they do if they find a door open, a person on site who should not be there, or a fault that makes the building unsafe. Who they call, and how the report gets back to you.

K1’s own account of the service is that the provision is adjusted as the requirement changes. A site in fit-out is not the same site once it is trading. Tell the company when the hours, the entrance or the risk change, and the assignment can be rewritten. If you are unsure whether you need a guard on site or a series of patrols, that is a consultancy question and it can be had before anyone is booked.

What we provide

Static on-site officers

A person at the premises for the shift you need, rather than a patrol that calls and leaves. The hours can be a working day, a night, a weekend, or the pattern the site already uses.

Access control

Who comes through the gate, the door or the yard. Visitors, contractors and staff can be checked against the rules the site already uses, and people who should not be there can be turned away.

Checks around the site

Locks, gates, loading doors, plant, stock and the perimeter, on a route agreed for that property. The officer is there to notice what has changed since the last check.

Retail and supermarkets

A visible presence on the floor of shopping and retail outlets, supporting the store’s own rules on theft, disorder and who is allowed to remain in the shop.

Construction sites

Cover from the gate to the materials and plant on a building site: signing people in where the site asks for it, and watching the site when the trades have left.

Offices, warehouses and industrial parks

Reception and after-hours cover for offices. Gates, yards and loading areas for warehouses and industrial parks. The task is keeping that premises secure across the hours you specify.

Benefits

An officer who is based at the site, not only passing through.
Duties set around the property rather than a generic post.
Retail, construction, offices, warehouses and industrial parks are the sites K1 publishes.
Access, lock-up checks and site patrols are agreed in writing as the assignment.
The provision can change when the site or the business changes.
The same company if you later need patrols, a door team, an event or advice.

Who it is for

Shopping and retail outlets
Construction sites
Office buildings
Warehouses
Industrial parks
Sites that need an officer present for a shift, not only a visit

How the service works

01
Describe the site
What it is, the hours, who comes and goes, what has gone wrong before, and what ‘secure’ looks like there. Photos or a simple site plan help.
02
We review the requirement
Numbers, shifts and the tasks the officer is there to carry out. If a visiting patrol would do the job, we say that instead of selling a static post.
03
The assignment is agreed
You know the hours, the duties and what the officer will report. Contracted guarding of premises is licensable, so the role is set against that as well as against your brief.
04
Guarding starts
The officer works the site. You can say what is working and what you want changed, and the assignment is adjusted.

Why K1

Why this sits with K1

Manned guarding only works if the officer understands the site. K1’s starting point is the requirement in front of them, then a team able to stay with that brief.

Telephone

0330 001 1249 07585 773454

[email protected]

Service area

Somerset and the South West

Unit B, Wylds Road, Bridgwater, Somerset, TA6 4BH

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