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Operational Security Standard on Physical Security

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1. Preamble 2. Definitions 3. Roles and Responsibilities 3.1 Tenant Department Responsibilities 3.2 Custodian Department Responsibilities 4. Other Treasury Board Policies and Operational Security Standards 5. Types of Threats Conditions 5.1. Work-related Violence 5.2 Unauthorized Disclosure of Protected and Classified Information 5.3 Unavailability of Assets, and Monetary or Heritage Loss 5.4 Loss of Integrity 6. Physical Security Approach 6.1 Protection, Detection, Response and Recovery 6.2 Hierarchy of Zones 6.3 Control of Access 7. Security in the Selection and Design of Facilities 7.1 Introduction 7.2 General Security and Planning 7.3 Perimeter Security - Considerations for Site Selection 7.4 Entry Security 7.5 Interior Security - Planning 7.6 Controlling Restricted-Access Areas 7.7 Facility Management 8. Storage 8.1 General 8.2 Security Containers 8.3 Valuable Assets 8.4 Keys for Security containers 8.5 Disposal or Recycling of Security Containers 8.6 Service and Maintenance of Security Containers 9 Transport and Transmittal 10. Destruction 10.1 Storage of Protected and Classified Waste 10.2 Destruction of Assets 10.3 Electronic Storage Media 10.4 Emergency Destruction Abroad 11. Enquiries Appendix A - Definitions Appendix B - Minimum Safeguards for Protected and Classified Assets Appendix C - Minimum Safeguards for the Transport and Transmittal of Protected and Classified Assets

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