Excerpted from How Should Hospitals Prepare for Active Shooter Threats? by Mike Cummings, CPP, Chief Security Adviser of Kontakt.io.
Hospitals and other healthcare facilities are in a unique position relative to active shooter threats and other types of workplace violence.
As opposed to other types of critical infrastructure such as banks and factories that are tightly locked down under multiple layers of security, hospitals are generally open and accessible to nearly all members of the public—such as emergency departments (ED) that operate 24 hours per day, seven days per week, and 365 days per year…
