Personnel Security
PER026
Identify the need for a national security clearance
Understand how to identify the need for a national security clearance in your organisation.
Check eligibility for vetting
Understand how to check whether a person is eligible and suitable for security vetting.
Request vetting for a clearance
Help clearance holders understand their obligations and your organisation’s security policies and practices.
Set the right expectations (for clearance holders)
Help clearance holders understand their obligations and your organisation’s security policies and practices.
Ensure their ongoing suitability (for clearance holders)
Ensure that people remain suitable to hold a national security clearance.
Maintaining your national security clearance
This section helps you understand your responsibilities as a national security clearance holder, so you can meet them and stay suitable to hold a clearance.
Manage their security clearance
Understand the steps you need to take to manage a holder’s security clearance including monitoring any concerning behaviour, reporting and responding to security incidents involving them, managing their access to emergency materials, and managing changes to their security clearance level.
Manage their departure (for clearance holders)
When a clearance holder leaves, they retain their knowledge of your organisation’s business operations, intellectual property, classified information, and security vulnerabilities. Managing their departure well will help to reduce the risk of this knowledge being misused.
