Below are some helpful resources for healthcare security professionals.  If you can't find what you are looking for, be sure to take advantage of the search function located in the top right corner of the screen to search all pages and documents located within our entire website. Use "quotation marks" around phrases to search a phrase or simply type in a word.

 Useful Links for Healthcare Security Professionals

• Covid-19 resources for healthcare security and healthcare professionals
• 2022 Healthcare Cybersecurity Year in Review and a 2023 Look-Ahead - Health and Human Service, Office of Information Security
  
• 2021 Creating Safer Workplaces: A guide to mitigating violence in health care settings – published by AHA and IAHSS
• AHA Workforce and Workplace Violence Prevention Resources  – published by AHA
• Workplace Violence Prevention tools- published by the Public Service Health & Safety Association (PSHSA) in Ontario, Canada

• 2018 Mental Health Units (Use of Force) Act- GOV.UK
• 2017 Fentanyl Safety Recommendations for First Responders - Published by DEA
• 2017 Active Shooter Planning & Response in a Healthcare Setting - Published by FBI
• 2017 Ransomware & HIPPA FACT SHEET - Published by HHS
• 2016 Guidelines for Preventing Workplace Violence for Healthcare and Social Service Workers - published OSHA
• 2014 For health care professionals: Guidelines on prevention of and response to infant abductions - published by National Center for Missing & Exploited Children
  
• 2013 On the Safe Side: A security Planning Toolkit for Public Health Emergencies
• OSHA Website - Worker Safety in Hospitals; Preventing Workplace Violence in Healthcare 
  
• The Center for Health Design - Safety Risk Assessment Toolkit
• Why it's Critical to Take a Multi-Faceted, Multi-Layered Approach to Mass Notification
• Plain Language Emergency Alert Codes: The Importance of Direct Impact Statements in Hospital Emergency Alerts

   Videos 

• IAHSS Videos
• Armed! Are You Ready?
• REACT Training video
• MILO video
• S.A.V.E. Skill Builder video
• S.A.V.E. video
• Proxemics video
• MMS final video
  
• 2017 Don't Hold the Door! - Published by Brigham & Women's Hospital
• 2017 Be Aware - Published by Brigham & Women's Hospital
• 2015 BMC Live Action - Active Shooter Exercise Video - Published by Boston Medical Center
• 2015 Run Hide Fight - Surviving an Active Shooter Event - Published by Boston Medical Center
• Emergency Preparedness: Surviving an Active Shooter at a Hospital - Published August 18, 2014