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Hospital and Healthcare Facility Security Management

Hospitals and clinics stay open around the clock, hold medicines and equipment worth attacking and see staff face aggression from distressed patients and visitors. This course helps healthcare security teams protect wards, pharmacies, maternity units and casualty areas while keeping facilities open and welcoming. Participants learn to manage aggression, control access to sensitive areas and coordinate security with clinical priorities in a typical African healthcare setting.

What you will be able to do

  • Assess security risks specific to hospitals, clinics and healthcare campuses.
  • Design access control for wards, pharmacies, maternity and casualty areas.
  • Manage aggression and violence from patients and visitors using de-escalation.
  • Protect controlled medicines, equipment and medical records from theft.
  • Coordinate security response without disrupting urgent clinical care.
  • Support infant protection and vulnerable patient safeguarding measures.

Course outline

  1. 01Healthcare security risk profile
  2. 02Access control for sensitive clinical areas
  3. 03Managing aggression and violence
  4. 04Protecting medicines and equipment
  5. 05Infant and vulnerable patient protection
  6. 06Balancing security with patient care
  7. 07Emergency and mass casualty support
  8. 08Security staffing and coordination

Who should attend

Hospital security managers, healthcare facility administrators, nursing service managers and guarding supervisors deployed at medical sites.

Dates, venues and fees

DatesVenueDaysFeeCalendar
17 to 19 Aug 2026Kampala3US$1,500
24 to 26 Aug 2026Dar es Salaam3US$1,500
31 Aug to 2 Sep 2026Pretoria3R13,000
7 to 9 Sep 2026Cape Town3R13,000
21 to 23 Sep 2026Online3US$900
28 to 30 Sep 2026Mozambique3US$1,500
5 to 7 Oct 2026Cairo3US$1,500
12 to 14 Oct 2026Accra3US$1,500
19 to 21 Oct 2026Lusaka3US$1,500
26 to 28 Oct 2026Kigali3US$1,500
2 to 4 Nov 2026Nairobi3US$1,500
9 to 11 Nov 2026Durban3R13,000
16 to 18 Nov 2026Johannesburg3R13,000
30 Nov to 2 Dec 2026Mauritius3US$1,500
7 to 9 Dec 2026Dubai3US$1,500
14 to 16 Dec 2026Lagos3US$1,500
21 to 23 Dec 2026Harare3US$1,500

Fees are per delegate. South African venues are priced in rand; other locations and online in US dollars. Fees exclude 15% VAT where applicable. Group bookings of three or more delegates from the same organisation qualify for a reduced rate; contact us for a quotation.

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