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Checkpoint security training

Smart Approach CBT offers computer-based training programmes for checkpoint and X-ray screening personnel. The first Smart Approach training facility in South Africa has been established in Midrand, from where it will service the industry in southern and central Africa.

New and sophisticated screening equipment is only as good as the operator. Thus the biggest failure is not the lack or use of able technology, but to a great extent the lack of adequate training of checkpoint personnel with little means to measure their efficiency.

The Smart Approach comprehensive training programme addresses all aspects of checkpoint security screening, to include subjects such as X-ray screening, threat identification, screening of people, metal detection, physical searches, threat handling, etc.

Since most operators in years of performing screener duties, may never see a real threat such as explosives or improvised explosive devices, intensive training is essential, with continuous follow-up training at regular intervals.

The Smart Screen X-ray simulator uses an image library with thousands of real X-ray images derived from typical passenger bags and containers, carefully built and packed with a wide range of objects, inclusive of threat items, to produce a range of harmless and threat bags. Some bags are packed using every effort to disguise the threat items they contain.

Apart from the Midrand facility, training can also be conducted at the customer's premises, if required.

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