01) YES
Is your hospital in full compliance with the OSHA, Guidelines for Preventing Work place Violence for Health Care & Social Service Workers?
02) YES
Has your hospital had a security audit conducted by a Board Certified Protection Professional in the last 12 months?
03) YES
Have your fully evaluated the potential for assaults on staff, patients and/or visitors anywhere on hospital property?
04) YES
Is it correct that there has never been a security-derived lawsuit filed against your hospital? (This includes both premises liability claims and/or intentional torts.)
05) YES
Can you demonstrate that your hospital's security budget is cost beneficial because it is producing measurable savings through effective Loss Prevention?
06) YES
Have you properly identified all those employees who must be trained in conflict resolution skills or in the Managemement of Aggressive Behavior?
07) YES
Have you done a through security analysis of the special needs of Labor & Delivery, the Nurseries as well as Postpartum ?
08) YES
Do you have an infant abduction prevention program , and has that program been reviewed and tested at least every six months?
09) YES
Do all emergency department staff personnel feel they are in a safe and secure work place environment?
10) YES
Have emergency department staff, all security personnel and all psychiatric department staff (where applicable) been fully trained in the technique known as Management of Aggressive Behavior ?
11) YES
Does your hospital maintain a fully trained emergency response team to deal with aggressive and combative patients and/or visitors?
12) YES
Does your hospital have a procedure to pat down incoming emergency room patients for concealed weapons?
13) YES
Does your hospital's workplace violence prevention plan deal with protection needs of employees' whose domestic problems may spill into the work place?
14) YES
Is your HR Department as well as your security department aware of employees who have requested and received restraining orders or orders of protection against third parties?
15) YES
Does your hospital have a bomb threat plan , and is it tested twice per year, including the handling of the call, search policies, and media relations?
16) YES
Is your hospital presently using a computer-based incident-tracking system ?
17) YES
Is your hospital in full compliance with all JCAHO mandated security requirements, and do all hospital personnel understand their role in promulgating those standards should a JCAHO inspector question them?
18) YES
Is your security department able to do incident trend analysis in order to identify and adjust to new security problems at the incipient stage allowing for corrective action in a proactive manner?
19) YES
Are you able to quantify and measure the effectiveness of your security security program in terms of incident reduction and cost savings?
20) YES
If you are presently using a contract guard company is your hospital properly insulated from lawsuits that may result from the negligent actions of their personnel?
21) YES
Does your HR Department do pre-employment drug screening of all new employees as well as require that screening for contract employees?
22) YES
Does your hospital do a full background check of all new employees, including a nation-wide criminal record search and is this standard applied to contract personnel?
23) YES
Have your Security Policies & Procedures been reviewed and revised in the past twelve months?
24) YES
Are all supervisors and managers trained how to recognize document substance abuse in the work place as part of an overall drug abatement program ?
25) YES
Has all exterior lighting been evaluated to ensure that all walking, driving and parking areas are meeting current security lighting standards? NOte: This California law has the impact of establishing a legal standard of care against which future litigation may be judged.
26) YES
Is your hospital fully compliant with all state mandated security standards?
27) YES
Are department managers required to sign a Conflict of Interest Agreement prior to being hired or promoted (example: Food Service Manager runs catering business on the side)?
28) YES
Is your security department managed by a Board Certified Protection Professional or an otherwise credentialed security professional?
29) YES
If you are presently using closed circuit television (CCTV) surveillance system, are all cameras monitored be security personnel and recorded 24 hours a day?
30) YES
Does your key control program allow you to account for every key issued?
31) YES
Are the issuance of grand master, master and sub-master keys tightly controlled and done so on a need basis only?
32) YES
If there were a significant theft from central supply , are you sure the theft would be detected and reported?
33) YES
Are visitors required to wear an identifiable visitor pass and /or badge?
34) YES
Are all employees, including doctors, required to wear ID badges and is there full compliance?
35) YES
Are you sure that any unauthorized person in your hospital would be detected and escorted from the building?
36) YES
Does your purchasing department periodic spot audits?
37) YES
Does your hospital have a policy restricting the receipt of gratuities from vendors?
38) YES
Are your security personnel, whether proprietary or contract, properly trained for the unique aspects of your hospital's environment (site-specific training)?
39) YES
Does your security officer-training program include a section on tort law and liability avoidance?
40) YES
Does you hospital utilize an electronic access control system and if so are all cards fully accounted for?
41) YES
Is there an analysis of all security incident reports in order to determine if there are emerging trends requiring adjustments in the security program?
42) YES
After a security incident, does your security department take and document corrective action?
43) YES
If your linen replacement program exceeds the normal "rag-out rate," do you investigate the causes and take corrective countermeasures?
44) YES
Do you have a Hospital-wide universal cash handling policy, does that policy provide sufficient deterrence to discourage dishonest cash-handlers?
45) YES
Do you have a check and balance system that insures the security of all patient valuables?
46) YES
Do security personnel who are first responders to accidents such as slip and fall , understand the risk management aspect of their actions?
47) YES
Does your hospital have a strategy to meet HIPAA security standards?
48) YES
Does your policy regarding Internet access have security safeguards including virus protection strategies?
49) YES
Does your hospital have confidentiality agreements with outside contractors retained to service your network?
50) YES
Has your information system firewall been tested?
51) YES
Does your hospital have a protection plan for the safeguarding of both laptop and desktop computers as well as for components?
52) YES
Is your camera to monitor ratio designed around ergonomically sound principles?
53) YES
Do you know if the frequency and scope of rounds, made by security officers, are adequate?
54) YES
Have all security officers been trained in the practice of universal precautions to minimize exposure to blood borne pathogens?
55) YES
Are all security personnel competent report writers and do they fully understand the potential role of these reports if and when future civil and/or criminal litigation occurs (sometimes 2 years down the road)?
56) YES
Are all routine security activities properly documented in a computer based daily activity tracking system?
57) YES
Are security officers fully trained in the Use of Force Continuum ?
58) YES
Are there sufficient controls in place to minimize the potential for patients to receive controlled substances from their visitors?
59) YES
Has the hospital suffered losses of medical equipment such as endoscopy equipment, surgical instruments, and blood pressure cuffs?
60) YES
Does your security staff offer an escort service from the hospital to the parking lot for staff as well as visitors?
61) YES
Does your security staff offer escort services from the parking facility to the hospital for staff as well as visitors?
62) YES
Does your hospital have a program that deters the fraudulent practice of employee ghost hours ?
63) YES
Does your emergency department employ the use of hard restraints less than 5 times per month on average?
64) YES
Does your hospital's visitor control program allow you to know at any given time, the names and number of visitors on site?
65) YES
Does your Pharmacy Department distribute medications on a unit dosage basis and/or make use of dispensing technology such as Pyxis?
66) YES
Are crash carts containing scheduled drugs always maintained in a secure manner?
67) YES
Do ambulance drivers restock from emergency department stores and if so are those transactions fully documented?
68) YES
Does your hospital have a well-publicized weapons prohibition policy?
69) YES
Do security officers understand the application of trespass laws as a method of dealing with intruders?
70) YES
If an act of terrorism occurs in your community, are you able to lock-down the facility within 5 minutes as well as ensure the continued integrity of that lock-down?
71) YES
Does your hospital provide two way wireless communication capabilities between security personnel and the on duty nurse managers?
72) YES
Has the Bomb Threat Protocol been reevaluated since 9/11 and are those who are likely to receive those calls retrained every six months?
73) YES
Does the Security Department's component of the Disaster Management Plan anticipate the potential that Police response may be delayed or even unable to respond?
74) YES
Does your Security Plan articulate a protocol for gauging the authenticity of a bomb threat and/or the threat of a bio-chemical attack?
75) YES
If the hospital is called upon to respond to and treat a large number of victims of a weapon of mass destruction, do all Security Department personnel know their defined roles (including media relations)?
