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Strengthening Your Healthcare Workplace Violence Program

With Guest Speaker:  Dick Sem, CPP – Sem Security Management

Problematic behavior by patients and families, from aggressiveness to violence, has been increasing in recent years, exacerbated by the pandemic.  While random and totally unexpected violence can happen, most incidents showed early warning indicators that, if recognized, reported and managed properly, could have been prevented.  We will address key concepts of early intervention and team-based patient risk and threat assessments and responses, as well as physical and procedural measures proven to mitigate harm from violence.

Learning Objectives:

1. To understand the unique nature of violence in healthcare
2. To consider various proven violence preventive and mitigating measures
3. To gain the appreciation and involvement of all staff

Credit:

This meeting has been approved for a total of 1.0 contact hours of Continuing Education Credit toward fulfillment of the requirements of ASHRM designations of FASHRM (Fellow) and DFASHRM (Distinguished Fellow) and towards CPHRM renewal.

Provider approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, Provider Number CEP10552, for 1.0 contact hour.

Provider approved by the State Bar of California Provider Number 18946, for 1.0 hour MCLE.

About the Speaker:

Richard Sem has 46 years of security and workplace violence management and planning experience. He developed and managed security, crisis/emergency management, workplace violence and hotline programs and has managed workforces of more than 5,000 persons. Richard presently provides security and workplace violence consulting to hospitals, manufacturers, corporate headquarters and organizations throughout the world.  He has worked with dozens of organizations, including 13 hospitals and clinics, following deaths by shootings or stabbings and bring lessons learned and best practices to my work.

Richard served as Global Director of Security and Crisis Management for Waste Management and Vice President of Pinkerton, later Securitas, responsible for eleven states in the Northeast US. His consulting services include security and violence management assessments and the review and development of related policies, procedures, and plans as well as staff training and security department reviews. He also conducts more limited “targeted” assessments of security departments, emergency departments, campus accessibility, workplace violence program, outlying facilities (clinics), etc.

Richard also serves as an expert witness in security and violence-related litigation and understand what the courts see as prudent and reasonable security and workplace violence planning.

Specialties: security management, workplace violence, hotline management, security guard management, business development and management, security awareness training, security assessments, security surveys, school security, manufacturing security, chemical security, library security, industrial security, security expert, hospital security, health care security, school safety, food security, security vulnerability assessments, risk assessments, emergency planning, crisis plans, threat assessment, site security, vulnerability assessments, security plans, security personnel, security operations, security programs, comprehensive security.