Healthcare facility security departments, along with clinicians, local law enforcement and the community at large must work together to serve this challenging population, while keeping patients, staff, visitors and the public safe.
Expanding your discipline policies to cover both the classroom and transportation, providing crisis intervention training to staff and sharing relevant student information with the right personnel will help minimize student violence on the bus and on campus.
Here are 10 tips on managing abusive individuals discusses how staff members can take action to prevent or mitigate dangerous behavior.
Identifying the children and youth who are homeless on campus, providing them with the services they need and developing good community relations will ensure school administrators and protection professionals are doing everything possible to keep at-risk kids from falling through the cracks.
Incorporating access control and referring homeless adults to appropriate resources can keep kids safe while helping those who are less fortunate.
By trying to save a few bucks by not conducting an employee background check, you might have just hired a criminal.
Access control, metal detection and limiting the size of packages allowed into your event will help boost security.
The following is a breakdown of best practices for campus safety officials to guarantee information gets to the entire campus in case of an emergency:
No matter what type of mass notification systems your campus uses, one critical step must not be forgotten: The creation and delivery of the actual content of the emergency notification. The following experts provide some sage advice on making your messages count.
Institutions cannot afford to have an emergency notification system that takes minutes to verify an emergency, draft a message, seek approval and/or send the alert. To address this challenge, Florida State University, in conjunction with Siemens, has developed a centralized activation portal for its FSU ALERT emergency notification system.