The International Association for Healthcare Security & Safety (IAHSS) has released a new industry guideline: “Firearms in the Healthcare Security Program” under the category of “Security Department Operations”.  

When Steven Wagner joined Indiana-based Hendricks Regional Health, the department was run on 99-percent paper, with no electronic method of tracking security officers’ activity or sharing information across shifts except for a sporadically updated blog without a search function.

For high-security installations such as at government facilities, border stations or military bases, these Delta Scientific bullet-resistant guard booths are tested and certified to conform to Underwriters Laboratories standard UL 752.

This 9’x13’8” custom-designed bullet-resistant security booth was built by Par-Kut for television station Fox 2 in Detroit, Michigan.

From bullet-resistant booths to guard tour technology, how are you equipping your security officers to bring more value to the enterprise?

A push for public safety in New Orleans led to the creation of its Real-Time Crime Center, which is improving relations between citizens, business owners and police, and saving law enforcement thousands of man-hours every year.

If you have an emergency, you might wait a while in Denver (average police response time of just under 13 minutes), while a serious emergency call in Chicago will garner a response within 3.5 minutes.

Traffic-related deaths are now the eighth leading cause of death for people of all ages, according to the World Health Organization’s 2018 Global Status Report on Road Safety.

Security mantraps come in many forms and with many names, including vestibules, airlocks, security cabins and more. But what do they really entail? 

Data from 2017 included information on around 5.4 million incidents with 6,290,042 criminal offense, of which 61 percent were crimes against property, 23 percent were crimes against persons, and 16 percent were crimes against society (such as animal cruelty).