Hospital and Clinic Security That Supports Your Staff

• Assaults and threats against emergency department staff
• Weapons carried into lobbies and waiting rooms
• Agitated patients and visitors in behavioral health situations
• Domestic disputes that follow patients to the hospital
• Theft of drugs, equipment and personal property
• Vehicle break ins and harassment in parking structures

• Emergency department lobby and entrance posts
• Weapons screening with walk through or handheld detection
• Visitor check in and restricted unit access control
• Support for staff during agitated patient and visitor situations
• Parking structure patrol and staff escorts to vehicles
• Incident reports formatted for your Section 3342 violent incident log

• Cal/OSHA Title 8 Section 3342 requires covered health care employers to keep a workplace violence prevention plan and a violent incident log, and lists maintaining sufficient staffing, including security personnel who can maintain order, among its hazard correction procedures.
• Covered hospitals must report violent incidents to Cal/OSHA within 24 hours if the incident results in injury, involves a firearm or other dangerous weapon, or presents an urgent or emergent threat to hospital personnel. Other reportable incidents must be reported within 72 hours.
• AB 2975 (Chapter 749, Statutes of 2024) amended Labor Code 6401.8 to require the Cal/OSHA Standards Board, by March 1, 2027, to adopt standards requiring hospitals to use weapons detection screening at specific entrances, with screening run by appropriate personnel, other than a health care provider, who meet training standards.

General information, not legal advice. Confirm requirements for your license and location.