Health Care Violence: Best Practices and Legislative Landscape

Workplace violence is an omnipresent risk for employees in some environments. In the absence of increased federal regulation, states are actively increasing their own legislation and regulatory mandating aimed at preventing and responding to violence in the health care sector. In this session the presenters, a former OSHA attorney and a healthcare security executive turned consultant, will provide an overview of recent and upcoming state legislation and federal guidance. Additionally they will discuss compliance strategies and existing best practices in workplace violence prevention.

Learning Objectives:

1. Understand the current landscape of health care workplace violence related regulations.
2. Prepare for likely scenarios for expected upcoming health care workplace violence legislative mandates.
3. Take best practices in workplace violence prevention back to their organizations for implementation.

Speakers:

Gloria S. Graham is a Principal Consultant with Cosecure Enterprise Risk Solutions.  She is a nationally recognized public safety and emergency management executive with more than three decades of leadership across healthcare systems, higher education, emergency management, and law enforcement. Known for her diplomatic, innovative, and compassionate approach, she has built and transformed police departments and safety and security organizations within some of the nation’s most complex and high-profile institutions.

Her career spans domestic and international operations, including enterprise emergency management, police department leadership, crisis response, dignitary protection, threat assessment, and large-scale security technology modernization. She has also led safety and security planning for major spectator events with crowds exceeding 100,000. Gloria is widely respected for her ability to lead through crisis, build trust with diverse communities, and drive organizational change that strengthens safety, preparedness, and operational continuity.

She currently serves as chair of the ASIS Healthcare Security Steering Committee and as an instructor for the IAHSS Workplace Violence Prevention Certificate Program. Gloria earned a bachelor’s in criminal justice from North Carolina Wesleyan University and a master’s in leadership development from St. Mary of the Woods College. She is also a graduate of the Northwestern University School of Police Staff and Command and has completed multiple Kellogg School of Management executive programs focused on leadership and crisis communications.

Drew Neckar served in senior security executive roles in the nightclub, healthcare, and higher education industries including serving as a Regional Director for Mayo Clinic and the Chief Security Officer for ECMC Group a company operating subsidiaries in multiple sectors including sixty-eight career college campuses throughout the US.

In 2018 Drew stepped away from in house security management roles to devote himself full time to consulting. Drew now serves as the Principal Consultant for COSECURE Enterprise Risk Solutions working to grow their brand and expand their operations to assist a wide array of clients.

John Ho, represents employers in employment matters with a focus on OSHA. He has extensive experience assisting employers with safety audits, complaints of retaliation, resolving and contesting citations (including fatality and workplace violence investigations), assisting with root cause investigations and responding to OSHA rapid response investigations.  As a former trial attorney with the U.S. Department of Labor, John prosecuted OSHA cases and received a commendation for his prosecution of a discrimination complaint.   John is the co-chair of the OSHA practice and author of its safety and health blog, “oshachronicle.com.”  John served as an editor of the Occupational Safety and Health Law.

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