New Guidance on Healthcare Security Incident Categories & Data Analysis, Framework & Glossary

IAHSS Announces New Guidance on Healthcare Security Incident Categories & Data Analysis, Framework and Glossary of Terms

At the IAHSS Annual Conference in Reno, the IAHSS Board of Directors and the IAHSS Council on Guidelines unveiled three new guidance documents: the New Guideline 01.05.02 Incident Categories and Data Analysis, the IAHSS Healthcare Security Incident Category Framework and the Healthcare Security Glossary of Terms.  These documents lay the foundation a more standardized and consistent approach to the collection and categorization of security incidents within healthcare. 

The goal is to improve the ability to statistically compare from healthcare facility to healthcare facility while driving evidence-based (data-driven) decisioning that support the maintenance of a safe environment, the implementation of best practices, the growth of security program initiatives, and the implementation of safety and security-related mitigations.

Download the New Guideline 01.05.02 Incident Categories and Data Analysis.

Download the IAHSS Healthcare Security Incident Category Framework.

Download the Healthcare Security Glossary of Terms.

Overview of New Guideline, Framework and Definitions:
Watch and Learn More: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_cd9Zv_PEk

The New Guideline 01.05.02 Incident Categories and Data Analysis
The New Guideline 01.05.02 Incident Categories and Data Analysis provides guidance on collecting security incident and activity data to monitor the environment, make data driven decisions and meet regulatory compliance. Collecting standardized incident and security activity data will assist healthcare organizations to benchmark nationally and internationally. Statistical data should be used to support security program initiatives, quality and efficacy.

The New Healthcare Incident Category and Data Collection Framework
The Incident Category and Data Collection Framework is designed with the specific intent of capturing security incident and select event categories in a consistent approach.   The framework provides recommendations for how security incident and event categories should be organized within the healthcare delivery system.

The framework is readily adaptable by every healthcare facility/system regardless of security program size, resources, or the security risks faced. 

Groupings are defined in five broad areas with specific categories, sub-categories and incident type flowing underneath each.  It includes workplace violence typology (when appropriate) and an injury severity level/classification scale.  The five major grouping are:

1. Violence and Aggression
2. Other Criminal Activity
3. Emergency
4. Security Assist
5. Safety – Facility Management

We encourage IAHSS members to closely evaluate how this framework can be readily adopted into your healthcare facility.  Over the course of time, it will change the landscape of data collection within healthcare security and help us better align with the broader healthcare industry. 

Healthcare Security Glossary of Terms. 
The Healthcare Security Glossary of Terms is designed to work as a companion to the healthcare security incident category framework as well as aid the understanding of the phrases and abbreviations commonly used by the healthcare security industry. We anticipate this glossary to be a dynamic listing of industry terms that will continue to grow over the course of time.  

Acknowledgement
The creation of these new tools involved a multidisciplinary approach.  Beyond the internal work within the Council on Guidelines, the group requested, received and harnessed feedback from many different external industry stakeholders and partner organizations as well as vetted each definition within our membership.

IAHSS would like to recognize and thank the Council on Guidelines, past and present, for their work on these multi-year endeavors:

Chair: Dave Brown, CHPA, CPP
Co-Chair: Tony York, CHPA, CPP
Alan Butler, CHPA
Brine Hamilton, CHPA, CPP
Anjanette Hebert, CHPA, CHEP
Kat Kemper, CHPA, CPP
David LaRose, CHPA, CPP
Michael Lauer, MBA
Mark Reed, CHPA
Dean Sobcoviak, CHPA, CPP
Tom Smith, CHPA, CPP
Lisa Terry, CHPA, CPP
Bryan Warren, MBA, CHPA, CPOI