Martyn’s Law · Staff briefing record
Who has been briefed, on what, and when.
Martyn’s Law does not name a training course. It asks that the people on duty can carry out the four procedures, and an inspector will ask how you know they can. This record is the answer: every briefing, who gave it, what it covered, and who is due another. Free, and nothing leaves your browser.
- Training the Act requires
- No named course
- What staff must be able to do
- Carry out all four procedures
- Re-brief
- At least yearly, and on joining
- In force
- Expected spring 2027
Training
What Martyn’s Law asks of staff
People search for “Martyn’s Law training” expecting a certificate to buy. At the standard tier there is none. The duty is awareness, and awareness is shown with a briefing and a record of it.
What the Act says
The responsible person must have public protection procedures in place, so far as reasonably practicable, and the people who work at the premises must be able to carry them out. There is no requirement to buy a course, hire a trainer or hold a certificate at the standard tier.
What counts as a briefing
Talking a new starter through the one-page sheet. Walking the building to the assembly point and the safe room. Ten minutes on an inset day or at a team meeting. A staff-only run of the lockdown signal. The free ACT Awareness e-learning from ProtectUK is worth doing for the people who lead, but it cannot replace a briefing on your own building.
What an inspector will ask for
The procedures, and evidence that people know them. A list of names, roles and dates is that evidence. It also tells you who joined since the last briefing and who has gone a year without one, which is the part premises forget.
The record
Keep the briefing register
Name the premises, then add people as you brief them. Paste a whole staff list after an inset day or a team meeting. The register shows who is current on all four procedures, who is missing one, and who is overdue. Print it for the folder next to the procedures pack.
Where you stand
- 0
- people on the record
- 0
- current on all four
- 0
- missing a procedure
- 0
- due a re-brief
Current means briefed within the last 12 months. Procedures covered are added up across a person’s briefings in that time.
Keep it
Saved in this browser only. Nothing is sent to us. Print or download before you clear your browser data or move to another computer.
Keep it current
A record goes stale quietly. We can nudge you before it does.
- Re-brief nudge every six months
- Procedures review reminder two weeks before the date above, then yearly
- One email when the SIA notification service opens (expected spring 2027)
- One email if the SIA guidance changes what the briefing should cover
Nobody on the record yet
Add the first person above. For a school, paste the staff list and set today’s inset day as the date.
Questions
Asked about briefing
- № 01
Is Martyn’s Law training mandatory?
No course is mandatory. The Terrorism (Protection of Premises) Act 2025 requires standard-tier premises to have the four procedures in place and the people working there to be able to carry them out. How you get them there is up to you; a briefing with the one-page sheet and a record of it is the practical minimum. Enhanced-tier premises (800 or more people) have heavier duties and should take advice.
- № 02
Is the free ACT Awareness e-learning enough on its own?
It teaches people to spot and report suspicious activity and what to do in an attack. It does not know where your assembly point is or which door locks, so it cannot replace a briefing on your own procedures. Record both: e-learning as a method, then the walk-through.
- № 03
Who needs to be briefed?
Everyone who could be on duty when the premises are in use: paid staff, volunteers, agency and supply staff, contractors who are regularly on site, and hirers who run events without you present. The record has a role list for each kind of premises so you can see who is missing.
- № 04
How often should people be re-briefed?
The procedures pack commits you to at least once a year, and sooner after any change to the building, the alarm signal or the procedures. The record flags anyone whose last briefing is more than twelve months old.
- № 05
Where is this data stored?
In your browser’s local storage, on this device only. Nothing is sent to SME Solutions. Print the record or download the CSV to keep it. If you ask for reminders we store your email address, the premises name and the review date until you unsubscribe, and nothing from the register.
- № 06
Do staff need to sign?
The Act does not say so. A signature helps if there is ever a dispute about who was told what, which is why the printed record has a sign-off line for the responsible person and the procedures pack has a paper log with a signature column. Use whichever your premises will keep up.
Before this
The briefing sheet people are briefed from is Part B of the procedures pack. Generate the pack free if you have not already.
Sources: ProtectUK, Martyn’s Law and GOV.UK, Understanding Martyn’s Law and the SIA’s role as regulator. The SIA’s statutory guidance is expected in autumn 2026; if it changes what a briefing should cover, this page will say so.