Expert physical security consultancy for organisations with complex or multi-site estates. Our team helps you set your security objectives, then designs programmes to meet them.
Good protection starts with a clear vision and an evidence-based plan. We use our award-winning technology to underpin our recommendations and help you build protection to match.
Forcefield’s consultancy team, led by Olly Rutt, Head of Risk Consultancy, work with you to understand your assets, threats and risk appetite, set a protection baseline for each site, and develop measures that close the gaps without over-protecting the rest.
We capture your risk appetite, assets, threats and incident history to set a protection baseline for each site, sharpened by local crime data.
Any competent person assesses each site using our On Site Assessment app: 38 questions aligned to NPSA guidance.
Dynamic dashboards show whether each site meets, misses or exceeds its baseline. Toggle between BAU and heightened threat.
Recommendations go into a risk register you can assign and track, with an audit trail showing how protection changes over time.
Book a consultation“We want security professionals to feel confident using relevant data to spend their budget effectively and make changes that will have a marked impact on the safety of their people and assets.”
Risks identified through our assessments tools are listed on the risk register on the platform, to be assigned, tracked and evidenced.
The Protection Readiness Tracker records each site’s readiness for its Martyn’s Law tier, with evidence, in one view.
It looks at the assets on each site, the threats they face, the protection already in place and how well it works, across layers from the perimeter to the building, procedures and people. It sets a protection baseline for each site, records existing measures through a 38-question app assessment aligned to NPSA guidance, and shows in one dashboard whether protection meets, misses or exceeds the risk.
No. The site assessment is designed for a competent person on your team, with guidance built into the app. If you’d rather not run it yourselves, our security consultancy team can complete or review assessments for you.
Traditional assessments rely on one consultant’s judgement, take weeks to write up and stay static once delivered. A consistent, data-led method gives comparable results across every site, faster, and shows where you’re over-protected as well as exposed, so budget can move to where it’s needed.
Because assessments sit on the same platform as our services, each gap can be matched to what closes it. For example, the Guarding Calculator sets officer numbers for manned guarding, and other findings can shape the security systems or mobile security a site needs.
Yes. Dashboards show the whole estate, filtered by site, asset or threat level, with a switch between business as usual and heightened threat to check whether protection holds when the risk rises.
Common points are before a major security spend or contract renewal, when an estate grows or changes use, after an incident, when insurers or auditors ask for evidence, or when a new duty such as Martyn’s Law applies. An outside view helps you spend on the risks that matter.
Risk appetite is the level of risk your organisation is prepared to accept at each site. It decides how much protection is enough. Setting it first means you can defend both what you spend and what you choose not to.
It depends on the size of your estate. Because site assessments run through our On Site Assessment app, a portfolio can be assessed far faster than a consultant-led audit. You get a protection baseline and dashboard for every site, and a risk register for recommendations you can assign and track.
Yes, every assessment is recorded in the platform. That way findings and remediation plans can be cross referenced during incident management for example, and service data can be reviewed within the context of the risks recorded at each site.
Alongside physical security risk assessments, our consultants deliver strategic security reviews and develop security strategies, policies and operating procedures. We test your security through physical penetration testing and table-top exercises and help you prepare for disruption with incident and crisis management and business continuity planning. We also design insider risk programmes, support Martyn’s Law readiness, carry out pre-acquisition site assessments so you invest in security where it delivers the best return, and design solutions alongside our guarding, electronic systems and remote monitoring specialists.
Martyn’s Law is the Terrorism (Protection of Premises) Act 2025. Standard duty premises, expected to hold 200 to 799 people, need public protection procedures. Enhanced duty premises, 800 or more, also need protection measures and documented plans for the Security Industry Authority, which regulates the Act. Statutory guidance was published in April 2026, and the duty is expected to take effect in 2027.
It records each site’s readiness against the questions for its tier, five for standard and ten for enhanced, with notes and links to your evidence, such as an evacuation or lockdown procedure. A dashboard shows which sites are ready, not ready or not yet assessed. The tracker records the work rather than doing it, and our security consultancy team can help with procedures and reviews.
The Keyholding Company is now Forcefield and TKC Consult is now known as our Security Consultancy team.
Book a call. We’ll talk through your estate and what’s driving the review, then agree the scope of the work before any assessment begins.
