Hospitals use color codes to communicate emergencies quickly and discreetly. Each color code represents a different type of ...

Many hospital employees are unable to identify the meaning of emergency codes, which could hinder an urgent response to incidents, according to a study published in the International Journal of ...

The Washington State Hospital Association hopes patients and visitors notice something when they hear an emergency call over the facility’s loudspeaker: they can understand it. The reason it would be ...

Triage systems run the gamut from verbal shouting in an unusual emergency to well-defined colored tagging systems used by ...

I first started working in healthcare security at St. Joseph’s Healthcare System in the west end of Toronto in 1985. I had only been working in the security industry since 1978 and I was still very ...