{"id":271,"date":"2020-01-13T23:11:52","date_gmt":"2020-01-13T23:11:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stellarcertification.ie\/?page_id=271"},"modified":"2025-06-26T11:56:36","modified_gmt":"2025-06-26T11:56:36","slug":"site-visit","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.stellarcertification.ie\/index.php\/site-visit\/","title":{"rendered":"Site Visit"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-e99tz-a3865b1d804dfb93ce4c62655f36343b\">\n.flex_column.av-e99tz-a3865b1d804dfb93ce4c62655f36343b{\nborder-radius:0px 0px 0px 0px;\n-webkit-border-radius:0px 0px 0px 0px;\n-moz-border-radius:0px 0px 0px 0px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div class='flex_column av-e99tz-a3865b1d804dfb93ce4c62655f36343b av_one_full  avia-builder-el-0  el_before_av_section  avia-builder-el-no-sibling  first flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding '   ><div  class='avia-slideshow av-jjspufse-155fe9c553549370d1fbe6f18131c00c av-control-default avia-slideshow-featured av_slideshow avia-slide-slider  avia-builder-el-1  avia-builder-el-no-sibling  av-default-height-applied avia-slideshow-1'  data-size='featured'  data-lightbox_size='large'  data-animation='slide'  data-conditional_play=''  data-ids='83'  data-video_counter='0'  data-autoplay='false'  data-bg_slider='false'  data-slide_height=''  data-handle='av_slideshow'  data-interval='5'  data-class=' avia-builder-el-1  avia-builder-el-no-sibling '  data-extra_class=''  data-el_id=''  data-css_id=''  data-scroll_down=''  data-control_layout='av-control-default'  data-custom_markup=''  data-perma_caption=''  data-autoplay_stopper=''  data-image_attachment=''  data-min_height='0px'  data-lazy_loading='disabled'  data-default-height='28.666666666667'  data-img_scrset=''  data-av-desktop-hide=''  data-av-medium-hide=''  data-av-small-hide=''  data-av-mini-hide=''  data-alb_description=''  data-id=''  data-custom_class=''  data-template_class=''  data-av_uid='av-jjspufse'  data-sc_version='1.0'  data-heading_tag=''  data-heading_class=''   itemprop=\"image\" itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\" ><ul class='avia-slideshow-inner ' style='padding-bottom: 28.666666666667%;'><\/ul><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><!-- close content main div --><\/div><\/div>\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-1c8ir-150776eadcb37ebbf40d8cf414316bc9\">\n.avia-section.av-1c8ir-150776eadcb37ebbf40d8cf414316bc9{\nbackground-color:#fcfcfc;\nbackground-image:unset;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div id='av_section_1'  class='avia-section av-1c8ir-150776eadcb37ebbf40d8cf414316bc9 main_color avia-section-large avia-no-shadow  avia-builder-el-2  el_after_av_one_full  avia-builder-el-last  avia-bg-style-scroll container_wrap sidebar_right'  ><div class='container av-section-cont-open' ><div class='template-page content  av-content-small alpha units'><div class='post-entry post-entry-type-page post-entry-271'><div class='entry-content-wrapper clearfix'>\n\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-czesr-1b7d5750c90204ad05ea00e421a42767\">\n.flex_column.av-czesr-1b7d5750c90204ad05ea00e421a42767{\nborder-width:1px;\nborder-color:#e1e1e1;\nborder-style:solid;\nborder-radius:0px 0px 0px 0px;\n-webkit-border-radius:0px 0px 0px 0px;\n-moz-border-radius:0px 0px 0px 0px;\npadding:20px 20px 20px 20px;\nbackground-color:#ffffff;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div class='flex_column av-czesr-1b7d5750c90204ad05ea00e421a42767 av_one_full  avia-builder-el-3  avia-builder-el-no-sibling  first flex_column_div  av-animated-generic bottom-to-top '   ><section  class='av_textblock_section av-c4s93-7d22d26efc42330794583f75bd137a73'  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div class='avia_textblock'  itemprop=\"text\" ><p align=\"center\"><strong>Site visit information for<\/strong><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><strong>Intruder Alarm, CCTV and Access Control<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Private Security Services Act 2004 requires that all security companies have a Private Security Contractors Licence issued by the PSA. In order to achieve this Licence the PSA require evidence that the company meets the appropriate industry standards. This evidence is provided by Stellar in certification against the standard following our auditing process.<\/p>\n<p>Stellar Certification Services Ltd operate\u00a0 certification schemes based on the Private Security Authority suite of standards, which include the following<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>EN 50131 (Alarm Installation-Intruder alarm)<\/li>\n<li>I.S. 228 (Alarm Receiving Centre)<\/li>\n<li>S.I. 144:2012 (Access Control)<\/li>\n<li>PSA 2006_12 (CCTV)<\/li>\n<li>PSA 28: 2013 (Door Supervision &amp; Security Guarding)<\/li>\n<li>SR 25 (Alarm Receiving Centre- Alarm handling)<\/li>\n<li>PSA 74: 2019 Standard for the licencing of Security Service Providers<\/li>\n<li>SR 41 (Alarm Receiving Centre-Monitoring services)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Under the certification scheme, Stellar inspectors assess the operations and procedures of\u00a0 installers by:<\/p>\n<p><strong>EN 50131 Intruder Alarm:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol start=\"1\">\n<li>For a new entrant into this sector four installations must be visited.<\/li>\n<li>For an existing licensed company two inspections are required.<\/li>\n<li>For subsequent audits after the initial certification audit, two sites must be visited.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong>PSA 2006_12 CCTV:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol start=\"1\">\n<li>For a new entrant into this sector four installations must be visited.<\/li>\n<li>For an existing licensed company two inspections are required.<\/li>\n<li>For subsequent audits after the initial certification audit, two sites must be visited.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong>S.I. 144:2012 Access Control:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol start=\"1\">\n<li>For a new entrant into this sector Stellar Certification Services would prefer to visit one site with any combination of the Access Controls mentioned in the PSA standard.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong>PSA 94:2024 Supplier or Installer of Sales<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Multiple Standards i.e EN 50131 Intruder Alarm, PSA 2006_12 CCTV, S.I. 144:2012 Access Control &amp; EN 50134 Social Alarm Systems:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>For a new entrant into this sector four installations for Intruder Alarm and two CCTV sites\u00a0 must be visited.<\/li>\n<li>For an existing licensed company two inspections for Intruder Alarms and two for CCTV\u00a0 are required.<\/li>\n<li>For subsequent audits after the initial certification audit, two Intruder Alarm and two CCTV sites must be visited<\/li>\n<li>Access Control sites are not required to be visited on subsequent audits<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>An audit must also be carried out on the PSA:74 2019 standard for compliance against any of the PSA suite of standards.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><!-- close content main div --><\/div><\/div><div id='after_section_1'  class='main_color av_default_container_wrap container_wrap sidebar_right'  ><div class='container av-section-cont-open' ><div class='template-page content  av-content-small alpha units'><div class='post-entry post-entry-type-page post-entry-271'><div class='entry-content-wrapper clearfix'>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-271","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stellarcertification.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stellarcertification.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stellarcertification.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stellarcertification.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stellarcertification.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=271"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/www.stellarcertification.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/271\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":902,"href":"https:\/\/www.stellarcertification.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/271\/revisions\/902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stellarcertification.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}