As travel continues to make its comeback, businesses need to be taking a renewed look at their duty of care policies to provide their road warriors with the adequate — and expected — level of safety and security.
Take a crash course in the evolution of armored vehicles and physical security for assets on the move. While the first armored vehicles was built around 1870, advanced technologies have turned protection vehicles into sensing and surveillance machines.
The Transportation Security Administration will resume self-defense classes for flight attendants and pilots after not having the training for more than a year due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The classes come as the airlines deal with a surge in cases of unruly passengers and violent behavior on flights.
Many schools are adopting technology solutions, specifically around student engagement, behavioral health, and safety mood monitoring technology to address students’ needs. These tools can help schools improve their ability to properly identify any students that may be struggling, as well as support all students through the process of acclimating to a new routine.
Prior to this new role, Eakins served as Chief Security Officer and Director of Public Safety at Idaho State University with campuses located in Boise, Idaho Falls, Twin Falls, and the main campus in Pocatello.
There has been a growing trend of retail location shoplifting. Combine this with new laws and pandemic-related demand, and the security officer’s role as a deterrent becomes more challenging than ever.
U.S. Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) is deploying a multi-energy portal inspection system for scanning commercial vehicles crossing the U.S. border, which will enable quicker and more efficient scanning without requiring agents to physically inspect each vehicle.
Nick Heywood, Associate Vice President at Guidepost Solutions, talks to Security magazine about the physical, environmental, and cybersecurity issues behind long-empty offices that are reopening as restrictions lift.
The pandemic has magnified an already fragile psyche among some Americans, whose tendency for violence occurs, incredibly, at the smallest slight. It is likely our nation’s enduring illness of resorting to violence remains with its appending deadly toll even once the health risks from COVID-19 decline.
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