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If you are tasked to procure or develop a security system for a company, integration is the way. Combine physical security, information systems, and access control all in one system to save money and become more efficient. Now, with the severe threat of terrorism and the broad spectrum of businesses it can affect, you need to add CBRNE. Get used to this acronym. It stands for Chemical, Biological, Radiation, Nuclear and Explosives detection equipment. Such security system add-ons are coming down in price and the future looks like more companies will add these detectors to their security system.

 

Oh, and there’s more. The EM pulse bomb (or a minor EM pulse) can do extensive damage to a company’s electronic infrastructure. These EM attacks are on the rise. Called TEDs (Transient Electromagnetic Devices), they’re destroying key information at roughly 8 out of 10 US companies on average! (Ernst & Young stats). You should take this threat into account when conducting a threat assessment for a company and now it should be mandatory to place it in your threat/vulnerability/risk matrix.

 

Terry Cochran

Security Consultant

Ashworth College

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Recent discussions concerning emergency critical care during a pandemic or massive emergency were held between the medical community and the federal government. During severe scenarios, it was agreed that there would be some tough decisions to be made regarding who will receive care and who will not. These issues have arisen due to large scale disasters like the 9/11 attacks in NYC and Katrina. As a security manager or anyone who will be responsible for an emergency plan for their facility, you will need to know and prepare for the fact that your place or many of its people may not receive emergency care.

 

Staffing, beds, trauma care, are all issues that come into play.

 

Facilities will be stretched to the maximum in the event of a pandemic or disaster. Therefore, employees of medical facilities and their families will get top priority to assure that employees will respond when called to duty. Ambulatory patients will be released to non-emergency facilities, shelters, and their homes. The list of persons who would NOT receive critical care during a pandemic in particular was published in “Chest”, the journal of the American College of Chest Physicians.

 

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In a nutshell, people over 85 years of age, trauma victims, over 60 years old with severe burns, those with serious chronic conditions and those with mental impairments will not receive care in a pandemic. While this is harsh, and is being hashed out with Homeland Security, the US Government appears ready to shield hospitals and doctors from malpractice suits in such an event. They did so after lethal doses of painkillers were given to critically ill patients who would not otherwise survive after Katrina.

 

This issue isn’t cast in stone yet, but do continue to monitor this as discussions continue. However, for the time being, this is the “plan”.  Your facility or some of its people may be on their own in an attack or pandemic.

 

Terry Cochran

Security Administration Associate Degree Consultant

Ashworth College

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