How Can I Get Free or Low-Cost Supplemental Training?

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There are several ways that you can get free or low-cost supplemental training for your security and museum staff. They include:

  • Ask your local bar association or prosecutor’s office if they have members or employees who are willing to visit your museum and teach a class for your security officers and supervisors addressing the topic of Authority and Jurisdiction of Your Security Staff. Several museums have found the local prosecutor or bar association willing to teach an annual class specific to your state’s laws on this topic.
  • Ask your local hospital, Red Cross, or similar groups if they would be willing to teach a class in first aid, CPR, or similar topics to your staff. Many will do this for free.
  • Ask the local fire department if they would give a demonstration to your employees on the use of a fire extinguisher.
  • Homeland Security as several programs that you may find useful in supplementing your training.
  • Your local agency or group that advocates for the rights of the disabled may be willing to send someone to your museum to talk to you about service animals and your obligations under the law or other topics pertaining to disabilities. You may even have a disable employee willing to talk to your security officers and other security employees.

Some of these groups won’t actually teach the class for you but will train your trainer who can teach the class. Others will provide the training for you. All of this training is excellent when it supplements an already comprehensive program like Museum Defender™.

There is one other resource I also recommend. The Cultural Safeguard Alliance is a free professional association for security managers in cultural institutions. They offer free and low-cost webinars to members and have many resources on their website that may help you. They recently presented a webinar on dealing with hurricanes and disasters that threaten museums and cultural properties. Every museum security director in a cultural property should join and participate. By the way, Cultural Safeguard Alliance offers a discount on all of our training programs and on our policy manual templates if you are a member and order through a portal on their website.

Steve Keller

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