Safe & Secure Hospitals Conference 2015

The Safe & Secure Hospitals Conference 2015 is focused on violence prevention, staff training, the formation of partnerships between hospitals, risk assessment, external authorities and security teams issues including:

• Occupational violence prevention strategies
• Initiatives to increase collaboration between security and clinical staff
• Work in conjunction with security and to deal with aggression by training clinical staff
• Implementing risk assessments for early violence prediction
• Police and hospital partnerships
• Code grey implementation and security officer ability to initiate restraint
• Updated technology and reporting/ data systems
• Specific mental health strategies for a safe controlled environment
• Strategies to manage long term/ frequent behavioural patients in ED without impacting on safety
• Proving the value of security to hospital executive management