HEBRON — Airport officials Thursday said they plan to update security-training procedures in light of this summer's nationwide review of airport security by the congressional General Accounting Office.

        In a meeting of the operations committee for the Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport, officials said the procedures will not be changed, just highlighted in a separate training document that is intended to raise awareness.

        The proposal also calls for new employees to sign a document indicating they understand policies regarding the use of access/identification badges.

        About 10,000 airportand airline employees have access cards and ID badges.

        The proposal still needs approval by the full airport board, but is expected to go into effect Jan. 1.

        “This just separates out all our local and state ordinances to make them clearer,” said Dale Keith, director of operations for the airport.

        “Everybody will get a book. ... It will look like something new, but is really everything pulled out from other sources.”

        Mr. Keith said the new program is partially in response to this summer's GAO review, which found lapses at many major airports, the Pentagon and even the U.S. State Department, although the local airport was not listed.

        The Federal Aviation Administration also conducts monthly reviews of security procedure, but FAA officials said results of those procedures are not public until one year after they are issued to the airport.

        Previously, the Cincinnati airport and its tenant airlines have been fined as much as $10,000 for breaches in FAA security policy.

        Mr. Keith stressed that security has always been tight, but said the new training procedures should help eliminate problems such as writing access pin numbers on the badges (which would allow access for someone who stole a badge) or walking through access points two at a time.

        He also said new fencing surrounding the airport is nearly complete at a cost of $600,000.

        “We feel we're safe, but we're always looking for ways to improve,” Mr. Keith said.

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