Those areas which require a greater than standard degree of security due to various factors:

• Presence of patients, including
• wards
• child day program
• outpatient clinics
• Presence of medical records or other confidential materials, including
• Medical Record office
• Dental Suite
• Personnel Offices
• Payroll Offices
• Presence of hazardous materials or equipment
• lab chemical storage areas
• laboratories
  Dental Suite
• radiation areas
• boiler room
• Presence of crucial research materials
• Presence of lab animals
• Presence of controlled substances
• Pharmacy
• Substance Use/Abuse research
• Presence of highly-valuable items subject to theft
• inner area of Shipping and Receiving

Greater degree of protection may include:

• Physical structures or devices
  • Signage
  • Locked doors
  • Key-controlled elevators
  • Surveillance cameras
  • Detectors & Alarms
    • for intrusion
    • for temperature changes
• Procedures
  • Employee awareness
    • Chief Safety & Security Officer trains all employees re security
      • at new employee orientation
      • as circumstances warrant.

    • Employees working in Sensitive Areas will approach all unknown persons who enter and inquire as to their reason for being there.

    • Report unauthorized entries to Safety Department. 

• Additional Security staffing
  
  
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