Departmental Workplace Violence Assessment (courtesy Bryan Warren)

January 30, 2023
Healthcare Safety Leader - Volume 31 Issue 1
Environment and Facilities, Workplace Violence

(Departmental workplace violence risk assessment courtesy of Bryan Warren, president and chief consultant for WarSec Security; for more...Read More »

2023 could be the year Joint Commission workplace violence standards get the spotlight

January 24, 2023
Patient Safety Monitor Journal - Volume 24 Issue 1
Accreditation, Joint Commission, Survey Preparation, Worker Safety, Workplace Violence

The Joint Commission (TJC) unveiled new and revised workplace violence prevention (WPV) requirements effective January 1, 2022. Specifically, it...Read More »

OSHA’s Regulatory Plans for 2023

January 24, 2023
Accreditation & Quality Compliance Advisor - Volume 17 Issue 4
Accreditation, COVID-19, Infection Control, OSHA, Worker Safety, Workplace Violence

Labor Secretary Marty Walsh recently confirmed that three OSHA healthcare rulemakings are priorities for the Labor Department: a permanent...Read More »

OSHA proceeding with healthcare rulemakings

January 10, 2023
Accreditation & Quality Compliance Advisor - Volume 17 Issue 2
Construction, COVID-19, Environment and Facilities, Infection Control, Life Safety, OSHA, Worker Safety, Workplace Violence

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) will proceed with three rulemakings focused on the healthcare industry—standards for...Read More »

Workplace violence risk assessment tool

January 9, 2023
Tools
Environment and Facilities, Survey Preparation, Workplace Violence

This departmental workplace violence risk assessment is courtesy of Bryan Warren, MBA, CHPA, CPO-I, president and chief consultant for WarSec Security. To read more about this tool, go...

Use these work tools to assess your workplace violence prevention plan

January 9, 2023
Healthcare Safety Leader - Volume 31 Issue 1
Accreditation, Environment and Facilities, Workplace Violence

CMS is ...Read More »

Workplace violence prevention hotwash scorecard

January 9, 2023
Tools
Environment and Facilities, Workplace Violence

This workplace violence hotwash scorecard is courtesy of Bryan Warren, MBA, CHPA, CPO-I, president and chief consultant for WarSec Security.  Read more information on using this tool...

New handbook tackles workplace violence prevention in healthcare

December 20, 2022
Medical Environment Update - Volume 32 Issue 12
Security, Worker Safety, Workplace Violence

Workplace violence in healthcare is its own epidemic: one that survey data puts some hard numbers on. ...Read More »

Q&A with Lauris Freidenfelds on healthcare security

December 20, 2022
Patient Safety Monitor Journal - Volume 23 Issue 12
Patient Safety, Security, Worker Safety, Workplace Violence

Lauris V. Freidenfelds, vice president of security risk consulting with Telgian Engineering & Consulting, has been in many...Read More »

This one (unfortunately) is not going away

December 15, 2022
Mac's Safety Space - Volume 16 Issue 12
Environment and Facilities, Workplace Violence

As I write this, it is the anniversary of the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut and I think you could make the...Read More »

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