Bollards for Protection: The Importance of Crash Testing

Start Date

11/02/2025

End Date

11/02/2027

Description

Vehicle barriers are needed to protect property and occupants against various threats, including wayward drivers, accidental impacts, smash-and-grab burglaries, and vehicle-ramming attacks. Given the various barriers available, it is crucial to understand how to evaluate and select a perimeter security solution that suits each application. This course reviews the types of barriers and their related testing and performance standards to help ensure the right product is specified for the area it is intended to protect.

Distance Learning

Yes

Course Equivalency

Subjects

Design-Build
Residential Design
Security Design

Health, Safety and Welfare

Yes

Hours

1.0

Learning Outcomes

Discuss the measures of hostile vehicle mitigation and the methods to reduce the vulnerability of a site against vehicle-ramming attacks.

Define the types of active and passive barriers, the classification of barriers, and the selection considerations that help.

Determine the optimum solution to protect people, buildings, and property.

Recall the high-impact and low-impact crash testing standards for barriers.

Describe the applications and role of security bollards in maintaining safe urban areas.

Instructors

Joe Pederson

Course Codes

Provider

AEC Daily Corporation

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