APATAP Annual Conference 2015


HEALTHCARE INDUSTRY NEWS Report Sheds Light On Weapons Use Among Hospital Security Personnel


The increase in violence against healthcare workers has been well-documented in recent years. A study published by the International Healthcare Security and Safety (IHSS) Foundation earlier this year, found that there was a 16 percent increase in violent crime (murder, rape, robbery, and aggravated assaults) at hospitals in the U.S. and Canada from 2012 to 2013. In 2010, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) reported that healthcare and social assistance workers were the victims of 11,370 assaults, which represented a 13


percent increase over the number of assaults reported in 2009.


If the rate of violence against healthcare workers wasn‘t bad enough, statistics for violent acts perpetrated against police officers and security personnel in hospitals is even worse. According to a study published in the Journal of Safety Research in 2013, police officers and security staff had the highest rate of violent event-related injury in hospitals (5.1 per 100 full-time equivalents). Given these statistics, it is only logical that hospitals would want to provide their security personnel with the proper tools to defend themselves. The IHSS Foundation recently commissioned a study conducted by the researchers at Duke University Medical Center and the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, on


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