TOWARDS A SAFER BADGE
By Dr Orlando Mardner
A forward-facing blueprint showing what real progress looks like — backed by case studies, success stories, and measurable industry transformation.
ABOUT THE BOOK
Towards a Safer Badge examines the organisations, initiatives, and industry leaders who have already started driving real change in mental-health support. Through detailed case studies — including Corps Security, Security Minds Matter, and cross-sector police/military frameworks — the book demonstrates what happens when mental health becomes a priority. It provides a global roadmap for implementing training, resilience programs, certification models, and policy alignment that elevate the entire profession. This is the industry’s future: measurable, sustainable, and people-centred.
CONTENT SUMMARY
CHAPTERS
- Measuring Success: Case Studies & Testimonials
- How Industry Awareness Became Industry Change
- Corporate Adaptation & Mental-Health Policies
- Lessons from Policing & the Military
- Raising Standards & Global Alignment
- Strengthening Public Perception
- Building Mental-Health Certification Models
- A Vision for Continued Progress
WHO THIS BOOK IS FOR
Security leaders, industry boards, global firms, regulators, reform coalitions, policymakers, researchers, and any organisation committed to long-term workforce wellbeing.
WHY THIS BOOK MATTERS
Because the private security sector is finally shifting — and Towards a Safer Badge shows how to accelerate that progress. It proves that mental-health investment reduces turnover, improves performance, strengthens public safety, and builds a profession worthy of recognition and respect.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Dr Orlando Mardner is a security executive, industry reformer, and author of more than forty works on security, leadership, and human performance. He leads national DEI work with SIF and is the architect of the SSPM — a global model for security professionalisation.