Violence Prevention & Response Toolkit
The Emergency Nurses Association created a Workplace Violence Toolkit designed specifically for the emergency department managers and is also useful…
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Hospital staff push back after police officers are replaced with security officers
“Nurses at St. Joseph’s Hospital in St. Paul are sounding alarms over a change in emergency room security staff. In…
Woman poses as doctor, diagnoses patients
A lack of security policy or a lack of policy enforcement? Toronto Globe Article
NCJRS posts Security 101 document
The National Criminal Justice Reference Service recently published a literature review and secondary data analysis entitled, “The Private Security Industry:…
The Security Continuum
The Security Continuum includes four distinct security strategies – – – Deterrence, Prevention, Mitigation, and Investigation. Deterrence is designed to…
Another Perspective on Threats vs Vulnerabilities
A paper in the Journal of Physical Security defined threats and vulnerabilities as follows: Threat: Who might attack against what…