Recently a range of media outlets reported on local community events being cancelled due to the costs of what they perceived as unrealistic counter-terrorism security measures. However, multiple vehicle attacks in Melbourne highlight how real the threat is to the community. We can no longer assume “it won’t happen to us”. And while terrorism [...]
“Concrete and water filled plastic road safety barriers are used on the road all the time and are crash tested, so they are must be an effective protection for hostile vehicle protection, right?” Wrong. This is a comment we often hear at Protective Barriers Australia when discussing hostile vehicle mitigation for temporary crowded public [...]
The Trend Towards Attacks in Crowded Places Safety in our communities has never been more important with an unfortunate trend over recent times towards terrorist attacks in crowded public places. First marked on a global scale by 9/11 terrorist attack in the US, and since then a growth in the number and types of [...]
Why international crash ratings are crucial for Hostile Vehicle Mitigation Hostile Vehicle Mitigation has become a critical Physical Security control to protect people, places and assets from the risks associated with Hostile Vehicle Attacks (HVA’s). Within the Australian context, ASIO T4 advocates the use of Vehicle Security Barriers that have been rated in accordance [...]
Hostile Vehicle Attacks The recent spate of Hostile Vehicle Attacks (HVA’s) has resulted in an increase in the available Vehicle Security Barriers (VSB’s) being pitched to the market as viable solutions to help mitigate this increasingly common threat. However, many of these barriers do not comply with basic standardised testing, and this ultimately results [...]
A History of Hostile Vehicle Attacks Over the last ten years we have seen over 40 acts of terror that have involved the use of vehicles as a means to cause harm against pedestrians within the OECD Member Countries. Often these attacks take place in Places of Mass Gathering (PMG) or where there is [...]
Separating pedestrians from vehiclesHostile Vehicle Mitigation (or HVM) has a simple enough goal, it involves separating pedestrians from vehicles through the use of clearly defined and fit for purpose barriers. It is important that these barriers act both as a psychological deterrent to those with malicious intent while also physically preventing ingress by vehicles into [...]