Course content
The Airport Security Officer Recurrent Training (ASORT) Program includes the following courses:
- Access control measures.
- Airport patrols and perimeter checks.
- Security screening measures.
- Monitoring and surveillance.
- Air carrier and catering facility and supplies security.
Learn more: Airport Security Officer Recurrent Training: Overview of Security Measures
- The purpose of a sterile area search.
- Standard operating procedures for sterile area searches.
- Dealing with prohibited and suspect items.
Learn more: Airport Security Officer Recurrent Training: Sterile Area Searches
- Cabin baggage screening technologies.
- Safety checks and pre-operational testing.
- Standard operating procedures for cabin baggage X-ray screening.
- Emergency procedures – dealing with a threat.
Learn more: Airport Security Officer Recurrent Training: X-ray Inspection – Cabin Baggage
- Hold baggage screening technologies.
- Safety checks and pre-operational testing.
- Standard operating procedures for hold baggage X-ray screening.
- Emergency procedures – dealing with a threat.
Learn more: Airport Security Officer Recurrent Training: X-ray Inspection – Hold Baggage
- Security threats and concealment methods in air cargo.
- Cargo screening technologies.
- Safety checks and pre-operational testing.
- Standard operating procedures for cargo X-ray screening.
- Dealing with a suspect item during cargo screening.
Learn more: Airport Security Officer Recurrent Training: X-ray Inspection – Cargo
- Why and where hand-held metal detector (HHMD) screening is conducted.
- Safety checks and pre-operational testing.
- Conducting a HHMD search.
- Alarm activation / detection of prohibited items, weapons, firearms, explosives, or metallic IEDs.
Learn more: Airport Security Officer Recurrent Training: Hand-Held Metal Detection
- The purpose, capabilities, and operating principles of walk-through metal detectors (WTMDs)
- Safety checks and pre-operational testing.
- Conducting WTMD screening.
- Alternative screening measures for those unable to undergo WTMD screening.
Learn more: Airport Security Officer Recurrent Training: Walk-Through Metal Detection
- How body scanners work and are used as a screening tool.
- Safety and pre-operational checks.
- Standard operating procedures for body scanners.
- Additional screening procedures for elevated threat conditions
Learn more: Airport Security Officer Recurrent Training: Body Scanner Operations
- ETD equipment set up, checking, and operation.
- Best practices for conducting ETD sampling.
- Responding to the results of a sample.
- Recording ETD information.
Learn more: Airport Security Officer Recurrent Training: Explosive Trace Detection (ETD)
- Why and when physical baggage searches are conducted.
- Prohibited items to look for when searching baggage.
- Physical baggage search procedures.
- Dealing with discoveries.
Learn more: Airport Security Officer Recurrent Training: Physical Search of Baggage
- Why and when pat-down searches are conducted.
- Prohibited items to look for when conducting a pat-down search.
- Pat-down search standards, techniques, and procedures.
- Dealing with discoveries.
Learn more: Airport Security Officer Recurrent Training: Pat-Down Search Procedures
- Why and when vehicle searches are conducted.
- Difficulties / challenges associated with vehicle searches.
- Search equipment, methods, techniques, and procedures.
- Dealing with discoveries.
- Documentation and record keeping.
Learn more: Airport Security Officer Recurrent Training: Vehicle Search Procedures
- When, why, and by whom aircraft security searches are conducted.
- Aircraft familiarization.
- Search coordination and safety precautions.
- Search techniques.
- What to do upon discovery of baggage, prohibited / suspect items, or IEDs.
Learn more: Airport Security Officer Recurrent Training: Aircraft Security Search Procedures
Airport campus licensing allows your airport to roll out Airport Security Officer Recurrent Training to all your security personnel quickly, easily, and cost effectively. Delivered through Klayo or via your airport’s local Learning Management System, campus licensing also provides the ability for your airport to customize the Airport Security Officer Recurrent Training (ASORT) Program courses to meet local requirements. For more information regarding an airport wide campus licence contact enrolments@olc.aero and we will be happy to assist.




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