Workplace Violence at Healthcare Facilities is a Growing Problem

Studies show that violence towards physicians, nurses, and other front-line healthcare workers is more common than most people realize. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration estimates that 25,000 workplace assaults occur each year in healthcare settings. According to the Government of Accountability Office, the problem is so big that workplace violence is a serious concern for 15 million healthcare workers. It’s disheartening to hear that Forbes identified healthcare as being America’s most dangerous profession due to workplace violence.

Of course, your employees are not statistics; they are flesh and blood, and it crucial that each and every one of them is protected from acts of violence.

Workplace Violence is Costly

Direct Costs

Worker’s compensation claims
Lost time to injuries
Per diem replacements
Lawsuits
Damage to your facility
Insurance premium increases
Equipment damage

Indirect Costs

Perhaps what’s more concerning is the impact on your organization when your people don’t feel safe. Maslow taught us that safety is a basic human need, and without it, it’s hard to reach your full potential. Lack of safety will lead to stress, low engagement, mistakes, productivity issues, high turnover, and damage to your healthcare facility’s reputation. If your workplace is viewed as being unsafe, it will make it difficult for you to attract and retain talent.

Traditional Security Measures Aren’t Enough

Traditional security is designed to keep people out of your facility. Acts of workplace violence typically are committed by people already inside your building. The perpetrator could be a coworker, patient, family member, or other guests visiting patients.

What’s the Solution? Pinpoint Healthcare Duress Systems™

Employee training and situational awareness are important, but when a dangerous situation arises, the only defense is getting help on the scene as soon as possible. The best way to do this is to provide your doctors, nurses, and administrative staff with a portable, easy to use, discreet way to request help. When it comes to protecting healthcare workers, there is no room for error. That’s why we designed our system from the ground up to create the easiest to use, most accurate, and reliable healthcare staff duress system on the market.

Portable Personal Protection

Our ID badge holder provides your employees with a reliable, easy to use, and discrete way to get help. No need to fumble with your cell phone or awkwardly reach for a panic button. Pinpoint is with you all the time and will work anywhere in your facility.

Pinpoint Accuracy

In the event of an incident, time is of the essence and getting responders to the correct location is critical. Our system is the most accurate on the market. That’s because we use infrared technology and hard-wired sensors. Systems that depend on Wi-Fi use triangulation calculations to determine the location and this method is notoriously inaccurate.

Built for Incident Prevention

While it’s important that you get help after an incident occurs, it’s better to get help before the incident happens. In most cases of workplace violence, there’s an escalation period that happens prior to the violent act. If your employee hesitates to call for help because they don’t want to bother security, they may miss an opportunity to de-escalate the situation. That’s why we created a two-button system that allows your staff to ask for assistance or to alert your emergency response team.

Designed to Life-Safety System Standards

Pinpoint was designed as a life-safety system. Our system uses proven technology that will be reliable under all conditions. Our solution has built-in redundancy that will keep your system up and running to ensure the safety of your employees.

Protects People & Their Privacy

From day one, our goal was to protect people, not track them or invade their privacy. Today, many employee duress systems track your employees everywhere they go, this leads to employees leaving the badges behind, rendering them defenseless. Pinpoint doesn’t track your employees. Location information is only sent when your employee requests help.

Alarm History Management

Pinpoint’s data collection and reporting system will track alerts and provide useful information to your facility managers, security team, and the human resources department. You’ll be able to run historical reports to analyze alerts and incidents across different time periods, see how many incidents were prevented, and identify incident hot spots. Pinpoint’s reports are an excellent way to demonstrate the effectiveness of your employee duress system.

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