The IAHSS is the only professional trade organization
dedicated to your industry – healthcare security and
safety.
The International Association for Healthcare Security &
Safety is a not for profit professional organization of
healthcare security and safety executives around the world.
Our membership also includes vendors offering state-of-the-art
products and services that serve to enhance security and
safety programs.
The IAHSS was founded in 1968 by a visionary
group of healthcare security administrators, and has grown
to be the largest association of its kind. It works to improve
and professionalize security and safety in healthcare facilities
through the exchange of information and experiences among
healthcare security and safety executives. It promotes cooperation
among the members and provides healthcare security and safety
executives with current information through educational
programs and publications designed to meet the challenges
and complexities of protecting a modern healthcare facility.
The IAHSS's efficient network of Officers,
Regional and Chapter Chairpersons avail themselves to the
membership by offering information concerning healthcare
security and safety planning, administration, management,
policy and procedure. The IAHSS has also developed a healthcare
Security Officer Basic Training Certification Standard,
Supervisory Development Standard, Safety Standard, the first
of their kind in any industry.
As a member of the International Association
for Healthcare Security & Safety you will receive an
array of valuable material including a directory of other
IAHSS members, a free subscription to The Journal of Healthcare
Protection Management, the official IAHSS publication, and
the Association Newsletter. You will also have the opportunity
to attend, at reduced rates, any of the IAHSS educational
programs held periodically around the world including the
Annual General Meeting of the Association where top healthcare
security and safety executives meet and exchange ideas.
Special discounts on books, training films, and other security
and safety resources are a part of your membership benefits.
As a professional in the field, or a
vendor serving this industry, you should belong to IAHSS.
