Overcoming Emergency Management Hurdles: Smarter Solutions for Safer Outcomes
Discover solutions to common emergency management challenges like communication breakdowns, compliance stress, and safety gaps with smarter security strategies.
Discover solutions to common emergency management challenges like communication breakdowns, compliance stress, and safety gaps with smarter security strategies.
With the elections approaching, university police and public safety departments should prepare now in case they are asked to host presidential campaign visits and political rallies, writes Dr. Jack W. Moorman, retired NC State University Police Chief and IACLEA Board Member. They may get very little notice.
Watch the recording of this webinar to gain insights from industry leaders on critical industry topics. Discover best practices from higher education and healthcare leaders. Understand the strategies employed to ensure the safety and wellbeing of all community members.
In the fast-paced world of healthcare, ensuring the safety of patients and staff is paramount. Workplace violence (WPV) poses a significant and growing threat to the sector, affecting not only the physical and mental wellbeing of personnel but also the quality of patient care. In their strategies for reducing these risks, healthcare organizations, and those who advise them, have traditionally looked to a familiar and long established range of protective measures. These solutions cannot solve the problems now being faced by the sector: they are largely reactive, and as a result they can only provide limited benefits.
Increases in workplace violence and aggression are being reported in sectors ranging from healthcare and social care to education and corporate campus settings. At most risk are staff in public facing roles, those working in the community, and those in isolated settings. But all workers are vulnerable and, with an increase in remote working, risks have spread beyond traditional boundaries.
With hurricane season upon us, how confident are you in your organization’s ability to respond to major weather events? How robust is your infrastructure, and will it stand up to greater storm intensity?
For security, safety, and risk professionals it’s important that, in our collective memory, we hold onto the lessons learned, and strengthen preparedness.
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.
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.