HOSPITAL SECURITY

Hospital Security

Hospital Security

Introduction

The purpose of this paper is to develop a tool to assess security measures in hospitals and provide an informational tool that would help hospitals address any shortcomings from the security assessment to deter and mitigate the effects of terrorist attacks. This study employed a qualitative approach presented utilising narrative meta-analysis. This was accomplished by creating a data collection sheet used to highlight salient techniques and categorize each study into three groups: hospital security, mitigation, and emergency management. The three categories of literature were used to develop the security assessment checklist, the terrorism mitigation matrix, and provide a summary of emergency management techniques. The security assessment checklist provides hospitals a tool to find vulnerabilities within their security program. Consequently, the outcome are then utilised to mitigate any shortcomings. The terrorism mitigation matrix was created to provide administrators options for implementing terrorism and crime prevention techniques. The implementation of these tools will help hospitals prevent terrorist attacks and crime (Arthur, 1995).

Each day, clinics around the globe are topped up with hundreds of thousands of persons and billions of dollars in equipment, pharmaceuticals, and other resources. A typical hospital environment with its open spaces, trusting atmosphere, and a transient population of patients, visitors, and staff -- is ripe with potential security threats (www.securityfocus.com).

In recent years, clinic security has become the aim of both bigger anxiety and spectacular change. State and municipal enclosures have claimed increased security from hospital managers, but the cost to retrofit new high-tech amenities security among pre-existing building organisations and security schemes is often outrageous and occasionally unrealistic (William, 1995).

To implement these new alterations, security administration teams first execute security vulnerability evaluations to measure those risks exclusive to a particular clinic, including characteristics of its position, dimensions, layout, and undertaking level (Peter, 1990).

Once these characteristics have been very resolute, a security systems supplier is equipped with this risk evaluation design and may then recommend particular security systems supervising gear such as CCTV security cameras, DVR surveillance schemes, digital video cameras, digital video recorders, digital video switchers, wireless security equipment, and other characteristics of video surveillance security schemes (Arthur, 1995).

Discussion

Hospital Security Assessment Plan

Being a security consultant the plan which I refer are as follows:

Begins With Access Control

Another important factor in security administration and amenities security assessment is get access to control. Implementing access control systems in a hospital setting has always been a challenge in building security, since most facilities welcome family member's and guests in areas with large numbers of patients, hospital staff, and expensive medical equipment (William, 1995).

Physical security

Physical security upgrades in hospital can enhance the overall security of a building. Abuilding or building convoluted might have security fencing and controlled get get access to to points. For example, entry to a hospital's patient care areas could be less strict than to hospital laboratories, and successively stricter for other areas, such as ventilation control rooms. Physical security is of prime concern in lobby areas (Peter, ...