Venue Security Operations: QNUK Level 2 Award (RQF)
A two day regulated qualification covering how security runs across a venue, from access control, search and patrols to suspicious items, hostile reconnaissance and responding to serious incidents. Built for in house security and venue teams who need a recognised qualification without an SIA licence course.
Course Overview
Venues rely on their own staff for much of their day to day security: controlling access, checking bags, patrolling, and being first to respond when something is not right. This qualification gives those teams a recognised standard and a shared way of working.
This qualification is part of QNUK’s Venue Security and Safety suite. It sits between SIA licence linked training and the spectator safety qualifications, giving frontline staff recognised knowledge for the job they actually do at events and venues. It is not an SIA licence qualification.
Over two days at your venue, learners cover the full picture of venue security and how it links to your evacuation, invacuation, lockdown and communication procedures. They sit a multiple choice exam at the end of the course.
For venues within Martyn’s Law, it is a practical way to show that the staff who carry out your public protection procedures are trained to do so.
About the Trainer
Delivered by 1705 Consultancy, a QNUK approved centre, and led by Rob Brettell, a former Essex Police Detective Inspector with 23 years’ service. Rob works as a safety adviser and commander at live events, so the training is built on how incidents really unfold at venues and festivals, not just the theory.
Frequently Asked Questions
No. It is a regulated QNUK Level 2 Award in venue security. It does not lead to an SIA licence, and anyone carrying out licensable security work, such as door supervision, still needs the right SIA licence.
Martyn’s Law requires qualifying premises and events to have public protection procedures: evacuation, invacuation, lockdown and communication. This qualification trains the staff who carry those procedures out and gives you a record that they have been trained.
By a multiple choice exam at the end of the second day. Learners who pass receive a QNUK Level 2 Award certificate.
Complete the free ACT Awareness and ACT Security eLearning and bring the certificates on the first day. Learners must be 18 or over and able to read and write English to at least Level 1.
£2,250 + VAT for a group of up to 12 at your venue, including registration and certification. Includes travel in Essex and the surrounding counties. Travel elsewhere in the UK is quoted separately. See our booking and cancellation terms.
Yes. Responding to Security and Safety Incidents is a half day and Securing and Monitoring Public Events is one day.
What You Will Learn
- Security roles and responsibilities across a venue
- Access control, search and screening
- Patrols, monitoring and recognising hostile reconnaissance
- Dealing with suspicious items using HOT and the four Cs
- Responding to critical, violent and terrorist incidents
- Evacuation, invacuation, lockdown and communication
- Working with the control room and the emergency services
Who Is This Course For?
- In house security and venue teams
- Duty managers and front of house managers
- Stewards moving into security roles
- Staff at sports grounds, arenas, theatres, museums and attractions
- Venues preparing for Martyn’s Law
- Duration Two days at your venue
- Qualification QNUK Level 2 Award (RQF), Ofqual regulated
- Delivery In house, anywhere in the UK
- Price £2,250 + VAT per group of up to 12
- Assessment Multiple choice exam
- Entry 18 or over, with the free ACT Awareness and ACT Security eLearning completed before the course
- Start Date On request
Upcoming course dates
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