ChemLock Security Plan
Do you have a security plan in place to secure your dangerous chemicals? If your facility experienced a cyber or physical attack, would you and your facility's personnel know what to do?
To help facilities that possess dangerous chemicals develop and implement a tailored security plan that will prevent dangerous chemicals from being exploited, CISA provides a variety of no-cost services and tools to help these facilities better understand the risks they face and improve their chemical security posture in a way that works for their business model.
Developing a Facility Security Plan
Understanding security principles is valuable, but without a facility security plan that implements specific security measures to meet the security goals, facilities may be unnecessarily exposing themselves to risk. The second part of ChemLock: Secure Your Chemicals provides a draft facility security plan that any facility can use to develop and implement a security plan customized to their unique circumstances and business model. (CISA also published ChemLock: Secure Your Chemicals Template in an editable format that can be easily customized to meet any organization's specifications and needs.)
CISA has chemical security experts across the country available to help you develop a facility security plan. To request CISA's chemical security expertise in helping to develop a facility security plan, please fill out the ChemLock Services Request Form.
ChemLock: Secure Your Chemicals
A guidance document that walks facilities step-by-step through the process of developing and implementing a facility security plan and an editable security plan template that can be easily customized to any organization's specifications and needs.
ChemLock Security Goals
To help facilities apply a comprehensive approach to security that can address different threats and hazards, the ChemLock program presents five security goals for facilities to think through as they formulate a facility security plan.
ChemLock Templates
CISA's ChemLock program has developed several customizable templates that can be downloaded and used to help a facility or organization enhance their chemical security.
ChemLock: Secure Your Chemicals Security Planning Course
This course walks through the key elements of a chemical security plan and how to create a tailored, scalable security plan that meets the business model and unique circumstances of a facility.
ChemLock Services and Tools
From on-site assistance to chemical security exercises and training courses, the ChemLock program offers scalable, tailored options for facilities looking to enhance their chemical security posture by developing a facility security plan.
ChemLock: On-Site Assessments and Assistance
CISA's ChemLock program provides on-site assistance and assessments that can help your facility identify the security risks your on-site chemicals present and offer tailored, scalable suggestions for security measures that work best for you.
ChemLock Resources
ChemLock resources are no-cost, publicly available guidance documents, templates, fact sheets, and flyers to help you enhance the cyber and physical security surrounding your chemicals.
ChemLock Exercises
ChemLock Exercises can help facilities test a security plan by either facilitating a live tailored tabletop exercise or providing CISA Tabletop Exercise Packages (CTEPs) that facilities can download and use as needed.
ChemLock Training
CISA offers live, on-demand training to assist owners, operators and facility personnel with understanding the threats that chemicals pose and what security measures can be put into place to reduce the risk of dangerous chemicals being weaponized.
ChemLock: Special Access to Other CISA Services
In addition to the ChemLock services and tools that CISA provides specific to chemical security, CISA offers a variety of other resources and tools that facilities with dangerous chemicals may also find useful.
Contact Information
For more information or questions, please email ChemLock@cisa.dhs.gov.
NOTE: Participation in any portion of CISA's ChemLock program does not replace any reporting or compliance requirements under CISA's Chemical Facility Anti-Terrorism Standards (CFATS) regulation (6 CFR part 27). Some ChemLock activities may fulfill CFATS requirements, depending on your specific security plan. Contact local CISA Chemical Security personnel or visit the CFATS webpage to learn more about CFATS regulatory requirements.