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route into the site. Security and safety planning should be brought together at the same table, not treated
as competing disciplines.
3.4. Proportionality and Affordability
Every defensive layer described in this guide should be selected because it is proportionate to the assessed
risk (see Section 4) and affordable within the project's means, and should be chosen so that it does not
unduly impact the construction programme. A control that a site cannot sustain in practice, because it is
too costly, too slow, or too disruptive, will not be maintained, and an unmaintained control provides a
false sense of security that can be worse than no control at all.