Webinar- Workplace Violence: A Risk Management Approach to Protecting the Workplace

Date: October 17, 2024
Time: 10:00am - 10:00am Pacific Time
Audience: CHI owner insured hospital risk managers, compliance officers, health information management personnel, clinical staff and educators, human resources, patient safety officers, quality improvement, and clinical and executive leadership.

Overview

Over the last several years, the healthcare field has experienced an increase in workplace violence. Unfortunately, in many incidents, it is often discovered after the fact that there were warning signs that were overlooked, misunderstood, or ignored. This presentation reviews barriers and opportunities in preventing violence from the first observation, assessment, response, and recovery. Through interactive dialogue and real-life case studies, this presentation will help attendees understand the key elements involved with establishing and maintaining a workplace violence prevention program that aligns with other organizational objectives and strategies.

At the end of the webinar, the participant should be able to:

Identify the dynamics of workplace violence in healthcare.
List strategies to overcome barriers.
Recognize threatening and concerning behavior and develop mitigation strategies.
Evaluate areas where implicit bias can influence workplace violence.

Provider approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, Provider number 12205 for 1 contact hours.

This meeting has been submitted for approval for 1 contact hour of Continuing Education Credit toward fulfillment of the requirements of ASHRM designations of FASHRM (Fellow) and DFASHRM (Distinguished Fellow) and towards CPHRM renewal.

Agenda

Webinar Outline- Workplace Violence: A Risk Management Approach to Protecting the Workplace

Faculty

Hector Alvarez, MSPsy/CTM

Hector is a nationally recognized security expert who specializes in workplace violence prevention. His professional career and academic journey have been focused on the development and support of corporate threat assessment and violence prevention programs. He has over 30 years of experience working as a Security Director protecting one of our nation’s most sensitive critical infrastructures, a city Police Officer and as a professional security consultant. He understands the challenges organizations face when addressing threats of violence because he has responded to thousands of potentially violent workplace situations and has helped hundreds of organizations build their own workplace programs. Hector has been called to provide litigation support in multiple high-profile incidents of workplace violence. As a California based consultant, he was active in the development of Cal/OSHA’s healthcare focused Workplace Violence Prevention standard and has already started preparing organizations for the SB553 implementation. He holds a BS in Criminal Justice and a MS in Forensic Psychology. He is recognized by the Association of Threat Assessment Professionals as a Certified Threat Manager™ and is the Sgt. at Arms for the Northern CA Chapter of ATAP. He attended Gavin DeBecker’s Advanced Threat Assessment Academy and is also a certified instructor in Mental Health First Aid. He is frequently called upon as a guest speaker and keynote presenter.

Handouts

Handouts will be posted 2 days prior to the webinar.

Web Access

Zoom connection information is auto-generated and emailed to the participant upon registration. Each participant has a unique link for connection.

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