The Global Risk Assessment Platform (GRASP) is a risk assessment system for evaluating warehouse and museum facilities. It has been developed as a response to the lack of a recognized standard by which these facilities, their operations, and their policies could be assessed to assure the optimal safety of its contents. 

The Objective of GRASP is to provide a single summary page for the individual facilities which assesses specific risk/safety factors against standard criteria. To do this, answers from over 2000 questions used by an on-site independent, professional security risk surveyor are being distilled into matrices which profile the processes and functions of the facility. The ensure objectivity the questioning process is binary – Yes or No. The system is designed to weight risk significance thus emphasising priorities in respect of security improvements.

Each survey provides a report indicating critical areas and generating an overall score, as well as a checklist of professional recommendations in order to improve or mitigate critical risk areas and processes efficiently.

Areas covered by GRASP include:

• Physical Security including design and construction
• Manned Security
• Electronic Security
• Fire Detection and Suppression
• Environmental Controls
• Inventory and Asset Controls including Hanging and Installation of Art
• Institutional Policies and Procedures
• Management Oversights and Controls
• Contingency and Emergency Planning