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Join us for episode 8 of the IFSEC Global Security in Focus Podcast, as we discuss the challenges of securing the healthcare sector. Across the world, hospitals, care homes, mental health facilities and their staff have been under intense pressure over the past few years with the COVID pandemic bringing new threats and complications into an already stretched environment.

In both the US and the UK, workplace violence has become a priority concern, with verbal and physical attacks against clinical and security staff continuing to rise in hospitals, parking garages, community clinics, and in patients' homes.

The fact that mental health is a huge issue globally for universities was highlighted again last week with Universities UK issuing new guidelines focused particularly on suicide prevention, with similar reports and guidance being issued in the USA and Australia.

When responsibility for lone worker safety is left with individual department heads – managers who may be great at their jobs, but who are not risk or security specialists – standards of protection are usually compromised.

Protecting health staff from workplace violence is now a top priority for most healthcare organizations.

Today there’s a huge choice of technologies available to take pressure off busy control rooms.

Healthcare environments should be among the safest of places. Anyone who’s ever been treated in a hospital, or who has appreciated quality care given to a close friend or relative, knows that with illness comes a feeling of vulnerability and a need for compassion.

The recent introduction of the most significant gun control laws in the US in nearly 30 years reflects widespread public revulsion over mass shootings, including the recent attack on a Texas school.

What matters the most, feeling safe or being safe? A strange question you might think, because obviously being safe is more important than just feeling safe.

As I look at universities globally, I see a transformation away from traditional security, policing, and enforcement models to a new approach - one that puts a higher value on community engagement, safety, wellbeing, and emergency preparedness.

In the wake of the recent bomb threats that over 55 different historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) received, IACLEA’s…

A comprehensive review of how COVID made mental health issues worse, and the impacts mental health challenges have on both students and universities.