Health committee  No, not necessarily, Mr. Chairman. The key thing is that our system is based on an approach of proactive prevention of a weapon coming into a facility, not in a car or something like that.

Health committee  Yes, you actually have a great point there. There is a breadth of technology available out there for identifying and predicting behaviours. It spans the range from facial recognition to identify certain persons of interest all the way through to seeing behavioural changes—and the

Health committee  From my experience, at this point a lot of this is due to the gun violence that has occurred in the U.S. For example, at the Mayo Clinic last month the CEO reported that 30,000 weapons had been identified within facilities in the U.S. Those are actively captured weapons that were

Health committee  A key factor here in the intervention and capture or identification of a weapon before someone comes into a facility is really acknowledging what the spectrum of potential weapons could be. You have to be able to understand what they could be, such as metallic or non-metallic. A

Health committee  In the detection sequence, first is the identification of a potential threatening item on a person or not, because part of the system here is that it will allow non-threatening weapons or articles to go into the facility. But if it does identify an issue, then there's an alert to

Health committee  Well, the training could very much be multi-faceted, from the perspective that it's clearly, first of all, about awareness and conducting the screening activity all the way through to when an event does occur. How do you isolate people and close the patients and other staff into

Health committee  Well, this is a multi-faceted challenge we we are facing. First of all, it's about understanding and accepting the fact that there is the potential for violence in health care settings, especially because of the magnitude of the emotion and activity that's going on there, and esp

Health committee  Chairman Casey and members of the committee, thank you for inviting me here today to discuss this very important topic. My name's Bill Riker and I've spent the last 37 years of my career leading global defence, aerospace and security companies in the implementation of their prog