Webinar: Prioritising Safety in Healthcare to Build Frontline Resilience
Healthcare experts from the UK and Australia share strategies to combat workplace violence and aggression (WPVA) in diverse clinical settings like NHS Trusts.
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Protecting Your People: Why Partial Security Solutions Fall Short in Healthcare
Tangible safety measures like SafeZone boost staff confidence and ensure comprehensive workplace protection in healthcare.
Webinar: Ensuring Women’s Safety: Insights from Higher Education and Healthcare Leaders in the UK
Join our Women’s History Month webinar on enhancing women’s safety in education and healthcare. Gain insights from industry leaders on challenges, strategies, and best practices.
Webinar: Ensuring Women’s Safety: Insights from Higher Education and Healthcare Leaders in Australia & the US
Join our Women’s History Month webinar on enhancing women’s safety in education and healthcare. Gain insights from industry leaders on challenges, strategies, and best practices.
Supporting Healthcare Safety and Wellbeing During the Holiday Season
Discover Healthcare Safety Tools for Holiday Stress Management and Workplace Violence Prevention.
Tackling Violence Against Healthcare Workers Requires Collaboration and Commitment. It can be Done.
We know that workplace violence in health settings is mostly patient generated, and we know that the problem is getting worse. It’s impacting employees and employers, as well as costs and the quality of services. In a groundbreaking new white paper on this topic by Eric Clay, president elect of IAHSS (the International Association of Healthcare Security and Safety), the violence statistics from the last decade, drawn from a variety of credible sources, all point steadily upwards.
Why Doing More of the Same Won’t Protect Healthcare Workers
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.
At Last, Healthcare Security Managers Have Reasons for Hope
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.
Real Time Location System (RTLS) solutions alone won’t solve the workplace violence challenge in healthcare
Protecting health staff from workplace violence is now a top priority for most healthcare organizations.