As posted on LinkedIn Pulse on November 29, 2016 The Workplace Violence Mitigation for Hospitals The Graphic above depicts a composite image of Urban & Rural Hospitals as a continuum. Here in California, Workplace Violence continues to receive major attention by the California Legislature, as an adjunct to the California Health & Safety Code. Also, […]
As posted on LinkedIn Pulse 10/24/16 Every security program should be need driven because security is very much a situational discipline. The individual components of each security program should be need driven as defined by the current ambient threat environment and the mission of the enterprise being protected. As we have stated in previous articles, […]
As posted on LinkedIn Pulse 10/6/16 This is the justification as to why CPTED should be the Backbone of Any Security Plan. CPTED (Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design) should be an integral component of every security program. CPTED is an appropriate crime prevention strategy for almost every component of security design. CPTED is applicable to schools/ universities and houses […]
As posted on LinkedIn Pulse 9/7/16 It was not that long ago that the dominant item on many security department budgets, was payroll burden. In today’s world that may, or may not be the case. Thanks to the advancements made in cost-efficient security technology, the demand for payroll burden has generally been reduced, to greater or lesser degrees, depending […]
As posted on LinkedIn Pulse 11/27/15 Every enterprise, whether public or private, whether governmental, commercial, healthcare or manufacturing, must deal with a unique universe of security challenges. For those industries that are not opened to the general public, perimeters are often hardened and access is tightly controlled to those who are authorized to enter. Those enterprises […]
As posted on LinkedIn Pulse 11/17/15 CPTED is a particularly useful security stratagem when applied environments that serve the general public. Public entities such as office buildings, hospitals, schools and universities, apartment, entertainment venues, HOA complexes, and certainly malls. In addition to threats posed by street gangs, burglaries and robberies, malls also must deal with […]
If there is one industry that is well suited to the application of the principals of CPTED (Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design), it is the healthcare community, including hospitals, urgent care centers, walk-in clinics, drug treatment centers and behavioral health facilities. All, of these facilities are characterized by the relative ease of access, both at […]
Security is a situational discipline. If you subscribe to this notion, then every security program is unique unto itself. For example, security programs that are industry specific, are consistent with other security programs, yet still unique within the confines of the industry being served. Hospital security programs are differentiated from mall security programs and/or school […]
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The contemporary concept of Security Management Support provides a reasonable alternative between hiring a Board Certified Protection Professional (CPP) Security Manager with 20 years of diverse security management expertise, and/or a recently retired law enforcement professional with limited security management expertise, but with great potential. (In fact a plurality of security managers come out of […]
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