The New Jersey Hospital Association (NJHA) Security Assessment Tool is a well-organized security template that works in the education, manufacturing, and business/commerce sector, and healthcare. The assessment tool is not comprehensive, however it applies to a range of threats. The template is a matrix for tracking intervention completion/progress, the staff member responsible for interventions, and a comments section. Topics include:
- Access – contractor/visitor entry control, deliveries during working hours and after-hours, employee identification and electronic access, and discontinued access for terminated employees.
- Active Shooter/Killing Events – lockdown/lockout policy, shelter-in-place locations, information sharing with response agencies, drills/exercises, and post-event activities.
- Communications – facility-wide system, staff communications training, protocols and training/system testing, and coordination with first responders.
- Response – security staff protocols, security job action sheets, Incident Command System, security routine checks, bomb threat procedures, fire alarms and evacuation, facility lockdown, and media response.
- Risk Assessment – annual security risk assessment, threat/vulnerability assessment, key asset prioritization, security documents inventory, and data collection from outside sources.
- Workplace Violence Prevention – violence prevention training, guidelines for response levels to threats, threat reporting and evaluation process, bullying response, prevention methods for targeted individuals, law enforcement notification, weapons policies, family support, and visitor restriction.
Key Takeaway:
This blog only skims the Security Assessment Tool. We think it is an excellent template that is useful in most workplace arenas for conducting a safety audit using internal resources. We add that this template is a start, but it doesn’t replace a formal security assessment conducted by security professionals.
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