BSIA
Chairman Receives 'Outstanding Contribution' Award
Adam
Wiseberg, Chairman of the British Security Industry Association (BSIA),
has received the PSI Premier Award for Outstanding Contribution to the
Security Industry for his longstanding commitment - through key technical
committees and industry associations - to the raising of standards and
the implementation of best practice across the CCTV industry.
The award was given at the PSI Premier Awards Event, organised by Professional
Security Installer magazine, and held on 3rd June 2008 at Moor Park in
Hertfordshire. The PSI Premier Awards judging panel was particularly impressed
by Wiseberg's passion for a more professional and quality-based industry,
which is effectively regulated to ensure that standards are kept consistently
high.
A high profile figure in the security industry as Managing Director of
RemGuard Visual Management and an AD Group Board Director, Wiseberg has
been Chairman of the BSIA for the past two years and was the first representative
from the CCTV industry to hold this pivotal position. Previously, as Chairman
of the Association's CCTV Section, he was the main driver of the BS8418
standard for remotely monitored, detector activated CCTV. BS8418 delivers
an important framework for best practice, underlining the need for the
right operator procedures to be in place at the Remote Video Response
Centre (RVRC) and – vitally – the difference that layout and
installation can make between the detection and non-detection of crime.
Adam also presided over another landmark standard for CCTV which was developed
from a BSIA code of practice – BS 8495, the standard for digital
CCTV recording systems for the purpose of exported image data to be used
as evidence – as part of his work on GW1/10.
Wiseberg is currently on the Board of Skills for Security and represents
the CCTV industry on the Association of Chief Police Officers' Security
Systems Group. He has also served on CENELEC (the European Committee for
Electrotechnical Standardisation) for a number of years as the UK's principal
expert on CCTV. In this role he has been heavily involved in developing
the new EN 50132-1 standard.
Adam Wiseberg comments: 'I am honoured to have received this prestigious
award in recognition of my work to promote effective standards in the
security industry. In particular I am delighted that my efforts - and
those of my colleagues – with regards to the landmark BS8418 Code
of Practice have been acknowledged in this way.'
