Workplace violence remains one of the most complex challenges facing healthcare organizations today. For executive security professionals, the stakes have never been higher: protecting staff, patients, and visitors while preserving a culture of compassion, dignity, and service. In this educational webinar, Jim Sawyer, CHS-Diplomate, CPP, CHPA, and a seasoned security professional, will deliver a practical, experience-driven approach to violence prevention that goes beyond policy and enforcement. Drawing on decades of frontline leadership, Sawyer challenges the traditional “zero tolerance” mindset and reframes prevention. Participants will explore the real drivers of violence in healthcare — including emotional distress, financial hardship, domestic violence, and systemic stressors — and learn how proactive communication, de-escalation, access control, and documentation can dramatically reduce risk. From verbal and non-verbal warning signs to gun violence prevention realities and parking lot safety, this session equips leaders with actionable strategies that can be scaled across the entire healthcare workforce — not just security staff.

Learning Objectives:

• Discuss the realities of gun violence prevention and seven signs of weapons detection.
• Learn to identify critical verbal, non-verbal, and behavioral warning signs of potential violence including two high-risk indicators and precipitating life stressors that could impact patients, families, and staff.
• Assess organization-wide de-escalation and conflict-resolution strategies.
• Discuss environmental and operational security best practices — including weapons detection awareness, access control, parking lot safety, and domestic violence support strategies — to ensure protection of vulnerable populations.

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LIVE ATTENDEES: Earn 0.1 IACET CEU* 

As an IACET Accredited Provider, BNP Media offers IACET CEUs for its learning events that comply with the ANSI/IACET Continuing Education and Training Standard. Participants completing this course may be eligible to receive Continuing Professional Education credit or CPEs toward ASIS re-certification.