The latest video, "Run. Hide. Fight," has more than 800,000 hits on YouTube alone, but cost $200,000 to make. However, one director says, that evens out to 25 cents per person warned about active shoo
In August 2010, the International Association for Healthcare Security & Safety (IAHSS) published a survey of healthcare security executives which revealed an increase in violent crimes within the reporting hospitals.
Resources such as seminars, online courses, posters, a booklet and a pocket card are all aimed to help inform people on what to do in the event of an active shooter incident.
In light of last week’s shootings in Aurora, Colo., workplace violence expert Felix Nater of Nater Associates, Ltd., offers 10 tips to mitigate the risk of workplace violence.
Awakened from a deep sleep by the midnight call, the corporate-level chief security officer of this Fortune 500 Company knew he was in for a nightmare. His director of security for the firm’s Texas manufacturing facility was on the brink of panic. “One of our employees gunned down, execution-style, a female coworker at the time-clock, fired multiple shots at other employees, and then blew his brains out in the cafeteria. The police are here. It’s bad – real bad.” The CSO knows how the rest of the story will unfold, because local management had severely underestimated future risks when the employee was involved in a serious altercation with the same coworker months earlier.