Blogs

For the team at CriticalArc, it’s massively energizing spending the time with our community, listening and learning about their respective journeys and visions for our solution. Exciting times ahead!

Safety is a top priority for prospective students and their parents when selecting a university, and for good reason. We will discuss why safety is fast becoming a top three consideration for those who are in the process of choosing a higher ed institution.

Safety is a top priority for prospective students and their parents when selecting a university, and for good reason. We will discuss why safety is fast becoming a top three consideration for those who are in the process of choosing a higher ed institution.

According to a report by the U.S. Bureau of Labour Statistics, staff employed in these sectors are 5X more likely to be injured than other workers – today, post-pandemic, the situation has got worse, not better. The World Health Organization estimates that up to 38% of health workers will suffer a physical attack at some point in their careers.

Today, blue phone fixed call points are becoming increasingly rare. It won’t be long before they seem as old-fashioned and ineffective as coin-operated public telephone boxes.

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.