Creating a Written Security Policy

As part of your security program, you should write security rules and give them to your employees. You may want to include your security rules in your employee handbook, if you have one.

What should you include in your policy? Security is a broad issue, and you may choose to keep the focus of your policy narrow, or you may choose to address many different aspects of security in your policy. Some topics that you might include are:

• guards and security
• your security program/committee
• areas of limited access
• restrictions on visitors
• statements regarding the removal of company property
• escort services to cars, if you provide it