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.
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.
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.
A comprehensive review of how COVID made mental health issues worse, and the impacts mental health challenges have on both students and universities.
University executives cite mental health as their top priority given the prevalence of mental health issues among students and rising demands for services.
CriticalArc was recently honored to win the prestigious Security & Fire Excellence ‘Customer Care Initiative of the Year’ for 2020. Given this award, it’s the perfect time to share how customers will benefit from our Customer Success Program.