IAHSS ADVANCED Questions with Correct Solutions
Question:
1. What do most security professionals agree that a primary function of the security
department in a healthcare setting should be?
Answer:
Crime prevention.
Question:
2. Inherent Susceptibility:
Answer:
A healthcare setting is a prime target for crime, because of how the business of healthcare
works.
Question:
3. Open access:
Answer:
Healthcare institutions traditionally provide an open access environment. This arrangement
accommodates the huge numbers of people who come onto the property on a daily basis.
Once in a healthcare facility, someone can easily pose as a visitor or contractor and go
through many areas without being questioned.
Question:
4. Presence of Valuable Item:
Answer:
A healthcare facility is susceptible to crime due to the wide variety of portable, marketable
items used and stored there. More than 3000 items purchased by hospitals are usable in the
home.
Question:
5. Distracted Patients and Staff:
Answer:
Criminals know that patients and family members often are less aware of their surroundings
due to the medical and emotional issues with which they are dealing. Criminals also see that
the fast pace of the healthcare environment makes workers less aware as well.
Question:
6. Whose personal safety is affected?
,Answer:
Patients: If patients are concerned for their personal well being or the safety of their personal
property their recovery may be affected. They may decide to get healthcare treatment
elsewhere. Employees: employees with personal safety concerns are less productive and less
attentive to patients. Visitors: Visitors concerned for their personal well being may encourage
their loved ones to seek medical care elsewhere.
Question:
7. Reducing the opportunities for Crime- The triangle of crime
Answer:
1. The opportunity to commit crime. 2. The desire or motivation to commit the crime. 3. The
ability to commit crime.
Question:
8. Of the 3 components, desire and ability are for the most part, beyond the control of the
security professional.
Answer:
Reducing the opportunity for crime is the key to crime prevention.
Question:
9. Crime prevention
Answer:
Crime prevention is the anticipation, recognition, and appraisal of a crime risk and the
initiation of some action to remove or reduce it.
Question:
10. Preventing Crime through physical security planning
Answer:
To adequately protect a healthcare environment and prevent crime a comprehensive security
plan must be developed. Its scope must extend to the following: Protecting personnel,
protecting information, and protecting the physical plant.
Question:
11. Layers of protection:
Answer:
1. The perimeter barrier. 2. Barriers at the buildings' exteriors. 3. Interior controls.
Question:
12. Perimeters
, Answer:
The first line of defense is a perimeter barrier. A perimeter barrier defines the line or outside
perimeter of the site. It can be either structural or natural. An example of structural
perimeter barrier is a chain-link fence. An example of a natural barrier is a row of trees.
Question:
13. Exteriors
Answer:
The second line of defense is at the buildings' exteriors: the top, sides and bottom of each
building. Doors, windows, skylights, and fire escapes provide this defense.
Question:
14. Interiors
Answer:
The third line of defense is interior controls. Included are the internal operations of the
protected site and the security personnel who protect the environment. Many items comprise
the interior control system. Lock and key systems, access control, systems ( card, biometrics,
etc.) alarms, cameras, good policies and procedures, and proper training examples.
Question:
15. New employees
Answer:
New employee orientation is a vital fist step to generate employee involvement in support of
the security program. Security's involvement in new employee orientation begins a
relationship between the security department and employees that must be nurtured and
maintained.
Question:
16. Key messages; when and what to report
Answer:
Urge new employees to report the following safety and security concerns immediately upon
discovery. Suspicious Persons and safety deficiencies.
Question:
17. Hazard surveillance inspections
Question:
1. What do most security professionals agree that a primary function of the security
department in a healthcare setting should be?
Answer:
Crime prevention.
Question:
2. Inherent Susceptibility:
Answer:
A healthcare setting is a prime target for crime, because of how the business of healthcare
works.
Question:
3. Open access:
Answer:
Healthcare institutions traditionally provide an open access environment. This arrangement
accommodates the huge numbers of people who come onto the property on a daily basis.
Once in a healthcare facility, someone can easily pose as a visitor or contractor and go
through many areas without being questioned.
Question:
4. Presence of Valuable Item:
Answer:
A healthcare facility is susceptible to crime due to the wide variety of portable, marketable
items used and stored there. More than 3000 items purchased by hospitals are usable in the
home.
Question:
5. Distracted Patients and Staff:
Answer:
Criminals know that patients and family members often are less aware of their surroundings
due to the medical and emotional issues with which they are dealing. Criminals also see that
the fast pace of the healthcare environment makes workers less aware as well.
Question:
6. Whose personal safety is affected?
,Answer:
Patients: If patients are concerned for their personal well being or the safety of their personal
property their recovery may be affected. They may decide to get healthcare treatment
elsewhere. Employees: employees with personal safety concerns are less productive and less
attentive to patients. Visitors: Visitors concerned for their personal well being may encourage
their loved ones to seek medical care elsewhere.
Question:
7. Reducing the opportunities for Crime- The triangle of crime
Answer:
1. The opportunity to commit crime. 2. The desire or motivation to commit the crime. 3. The
ability to commit crime.
Question:
8. Of the 3 components, desire and ability are for the most part, beyond the control of the
security professional.
Answer:
Reducing the opportunity for crime is the key to crime prevention.
Question:
9. Crime prevention
Answer:
Crime prevention is the anticipation, recognition, and appraisal of a crime risk and the
initiation of some action to remove or reduce it.
Question:
10. Preventing Crime through physical security planning
Answer:
To adequately protect a healthcare environment and prevent crime a comprehensive security
plan must be developed. Its scope must extend to the following: Protecting personnel,
protecting information, and protecting the physical plant.
Question:
11. Layers of protection:
Answer:
1. The perimeter barrier. 2. Barriers at the buildings' exteriors. 3. Interior controls.
Question:
12. Perimeters
, Answer:
The first line of defense is a perimeter barrier. A perimeter barrier defines the line or outside
perimeter of the site. It can be either structural or natural. An example of structural
perimeter barrier is a chain-link fence. An example of a natural barrier is a row of trees.
Question:
13. Exteriors
Answer:
The second line of defense is at the buildings' exteriors: the top, sides and bottom of each
building. Doors, windows, skylights, and fire escapes provide this defense.
Question:
14. Interiors
Answer:
The third line of defense is interior controls. Included are the internal operations of the
protected site and the security personnel who protect the environment. Many items comprise
the interior control system. Lock and key systems, access control, systems ( card, biometrics,
etc.) alarms, cameras, good policies and procedures, and proper training examples.
Question:
15. New employees
Answer:
New employee orientation is a vital fist step to generate employee involvement in support of
the security program. Security's involvement in new employee orientation begins a
relationship between the security department and employees that must be nurtured and
maintained.
Question:
16. Key messages; when and what to report
Answer:
Urge new employees to report the following safety and security concerns immediately upon
discovery. Suspicious Persons and safety deficiencies.
Question:
17. Hazard surveillance inspections
