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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.

A first-of-its-kind partnership between CriticalArc and Security Monitoring Centres (SMC) will give systems integrators and their customers powerful new options for staff protection, communications, engagement, and wellbeing.

The NAHS, is encouraging renewed focus on NHS lone worker protection, against a backdrop of rising risks and continuing pressure on health service staffing levels.

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

University of Houston-Clear Lake is elevating security and support for the university community by launching SafeZone, a unified safety, communications, and wellbeing service from CriticalArc.

Kansas Wesleyan University (KWU) in Salina, Kansas has announced it is adopting SafeZone from CriticalArc to create a safer, more welcoming campus where students can learn and thrive.

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…