Security Culture & Workforce Considerations


PARAS 0058 Workforce Planning and Development for Airport Operator Security Roles

Establishing and maintaining a secure and mission-focused airport environment requires the airport operator to plan, design, and develop strategies that support a proficient and well aligned workforce responsible for performing security roles. This guidance document serves as a comprehensive resource to assist airports in developing and optimizing their workforce strategies for security-related positions.


PARAS 0049  Creating and Maintaining a Strong Security Culture at Airports

This guidebook is a comprehensive resource of information and strategies to help airports build and maintain a strong security culture. Areas of focus include creating a security culture, community engagement and information sharing, workforce management, and assessing security culture. Options and strategies are summarized for each topic and relevant case studies are included. 


PARAS 0033  Mental Health and Airport Security

This guidebook provides approaches for identifying and responding to incidents that involve stress or mental health concerns that can affect airport security. It recommends a stepped-response strategy, which uses the least intrusive but most effective techniques to respond to incidents.


PARAS 0026  Insider Threat Mitigation at Airports

This guidebook is an all-encompassing source for information on insider threat mitigation at airports. Information in the guidebook aligns with the six ASAC focus areas of Threat Detection, Assessment, and Response; Aviation Worker Vetting and Evaluation; Aviation Worker Screening and Access Control; Training and Engagement; Information Sharing; and Governance and Internal Controls. An accompanying summary video can be found here.  


PARAS 0009  Guidance for Security Management Systems (SeMS)

This guidance was developed for those individuals, teams, or task forces who are responsible for establishing and maintaining an SeMS at their airport. The accompanying tool, linked below, should be used in conjunction with the guidance to measure your SeMS maturity.

SeMS Maturity Assessment Tool (SMAT)