title: Maximizing use of lighting, cameras in hospital parking areas.
abstract: Next to emergency rooms, a hospital's parking areas poses the greatest risk of crime and violence for staff, patients, and visitors. Critical to securing such areas (and creating an improved perception of safety) are the employment of lighting and the use of surveillance cameras. In this report, we'll give details of how one hospital used a lighting survey to trigger improvements in its parking security setup and we'll present tips from a leading camera manufacturer on the most effective use of cameras in conjunction with lighting in parking areas.
mesh_terms: D003415:Crime / Q000517:prevention & control; D006745:Hospital Bed Capacity, 300 to 499; D006801:Humans; D008029:Lighting / Q000592:standards*; D009657:North Carolina; D010299:Parking Facilities / Q000592:standards*; D012637:Security Measures / Q000458:organization & administration*; D014743:Videotape Recording / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D014754:Violence / Q000517:prevention & control