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Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) recently issued a notice from the Center for Clinical Standards and Quality (QSO-23-04-Hospitals) regarding Workplace Violence in Hospitals. Too [...]

Professional security practitioners have an obligation to research and fully comprehend what the laws are with concerns for workplace violence and a person’s right to possess a deadly weapon [...]

There has been a trend that is becoming more common across the United States where people go out and test the responses of police officers, security officers, and business owners. They call [...]

Contract Security Increased Liability Risks You have heard me say before, that there are risks that many businesses face when they hire a security guard service to provide security officers to [...]

What is a Security Post Order? Post Orders are based on standard operating procedures (SOPs), which should be site specific. By specifying organizational expectations, SOPs help managers [...]

There is an active movement to defund the police in some cities across the country. There is also the recent issue where qualified immunity was stripped from police officers in some states, and [...]

As the COVID 19 Pandemic seems to be slowing down, and many of the restrictions that were put in place last year have been lifted, there is a noticeable increase in the number of cases of people [...]

According to the 2020 Retail Violent Fatalities Report recently published, there were 523 fatalities in the retail settings, which was a 40% increase in cases over 2019. This is an all-time [...]

Did you know that Security Officers are involved in a Use of Force incidents every 3.44 hours, and that that there was nearly a 300% increase in security officer deaths in 2020, as compared to [...]

Security officers face criminal liability often as part of their jobs, and it is critical that your security officers have the proper training, experience, and mindset to perform their jobs. [...]