About this checklist

This crowdsourced, independent checklist supports hospitals in the improving the protection of staff, patients, visitors, medicines, equipment, personal protective equipment (PPE), etc. during crises such as pandemic outbreaks.

Access control is a crucial instrument in hospitals’ strategies to maximize physical safety and security. The current outbreak impacts access control in many ways.

Some examples: 

• Entire departments and buildings are transformed into new, secured areas.
• Standard rooms and departments are turned into IC units.
• Waste and laundry become contagious goods and must be secured.
• Goods and equipment like mouth caps and oxygen bottles suddenly become invaluable and disappear.
• Temporary morgues demanding additional locations
• Resources are being re-allocated between departments with new authorizations.
• Security staff is on-site to protect secured areas while hospitals aim at the opposite: avoiding the presence of people that are not involved in primary healthcare tasks.
• New routing and logistics are created on the fly.
• The risk of aggression towards medical staff increases with stricter rules and lack of IC capacity, leading to more stress among patients and their relatives.

We believe that hospitals and their stakeholders should have access to shared and independent information that supports an adequate access control strategy.

This approach will improve hospitals’ safety and security, accelerate decision making, and save precious time and budget for primary healthcare tasks.

The Hospitals’ Access Control Checklist is for anyone who is  involved in improving hospitals’ security.

This checklist will be updated regularly with on-going contributions from experts from around the world.

Let us know if you want us to keep you informed on updates with occasional emails.