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Workplace Violence Against Hospital Staff Discussed 19 May 2011 | 02:14 pm
Just got back from a regional meeting of hospital security officers in Myrtle Beach. Aside from the T’storms every night – and the college kids shooting off bottle rockets, it was a great conference. ...
Arming the Office – What Happens When We Let Employees Bring Guns to Work 30 Mar 2011 | 12:25 pm
Currently, we shoot to death about a 100 people a day in the United States, including 25 children killed every three days. And this tally accounts for only those killed by guns.
Does Being on TV Make Us Better World Citizens? 22 Mar 2011 | 05:14 am
It looks like that day has come – not because of high ideals or harmonic convergence, or universal values, but because we can tweet pictures to our friends about other people on the other side of the ...
Not with a Bang…. The Japanese Nuclear Disaster 17 Mar 2011 | 02:01 pm
As this latest disaster proves, the potential loss is so high, that even twenty years of extra electricity don’t seem worth the risk, especially if the calculation includes plants built in areas susce...
The REAL VALUE of a Hospital Security Program 10 Mar 2011 | 09:17 am
Violence in hospitals and against healthcare staff has been steadily increasing since 2004. A recent article in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), cited the National Institute for...
Is Hospital Management Listening to Security Directors? 9 Feb 2011 | 04:58 pm
Did you know that healthcare and hospital staff have a rate of violence that is FOUR TIMES MORE than the average workplace! And those are numbers from 2004 -- what about during and after people starte...
What do they want? #egypt 4 Feb 2011 | 06:30 am
So these events in the middle East are earth-shaking for a lot of reasons, but mostly because this yearning for equal opportunity and the yearning to make your own life better is the irresistible sire...
Maine Hospital Fined by OSHA for Not Providing a Safe Workplace 31 Jan 2011 | 04:54 pm
OSHA's report on The Acadia Hospital was at least partially the result of hospital officials making a policy decision to not use restraints on violent patients. In fact, Acadia Hospital’s CEO, David P...
After Arizona, Does Congress Need Gun Legislation, or Just More Effective Security Risk Assessments? 13 Jan 2011 | 10:47 am
Instead of treating each of these violent incidents as a completely isolated event, society needs to recognize these patterns that are emerging as legislators become celebrities, and that there is an ...
January 1st, 2011 Wake Up Call – Another Hospital Workplace Violence Incident. 4 Jan 2011 | 05:47 am
The epidemic of workplace violence in hospitals is only starting to gain national attention since the Journal of the American Medical Association published a research paper on the increase in violence...
