Healthcare Safety Toolkit Library

Using lasers safely in the surgical area is vital for patient and staff member safety. This sample laser safety policy was created by Duke University Medical Center.

The Association of Surgical Technologists (AST) presents a guide on laser safety best practices.

Active shooter planning in the healthcare arena is an important part of the emergency operations plan. This resource provides tools to incorporate active shooter incident planning as a preventative measure of the emergency operations plan.

DHS provides tools for the first responder community to become better prepared with an established and integrated response program.

This resource provides strategies on how to identify and respond to an active shooter incident.

This document provides a broad overview of healthcare active shooter planning along with assistance for your facility in preventing, planning for, and responding to an active shooter event that occurs in a healthcare setting.

Within the downloadable PDF document, this resource outlines law enforcement tactics, crime scene management, coordinated response efforts and ethical considerations for dealing with the aftermath of an active shooter incident.

Reducing the risk of encountering an active shooter situation is important to any business, especially healthcare. These resources provide tools on how to plan what to do in the event of an active shooter/violent situation.

Acitve shooter events are increasing more and more across the U.S. and the experts have developed tools to help the lay person identify a potential active shooter as a risk reduction strategy.