The annual IAHSS Healthcare Security and Safety Officers Week Poster Contest is designed to foster ideas and creativity to promote the IAHSS and the healthcare security and safety profession, while celebrating and recognizing the individual and collective efforts of its membership during Healthcare Security and Safety Officers Week.

Contest Eligibility
The annual IAHSS Poster Contest is open to all IAHSS members in good standing or a member in good standing’s department or institution.

Criteria
All contest submissions must be in the following formats:

1. Must be 8½” x 11” in size, suitable for enlargement.
    
2. May be either black and white or reproducible color, camera ready.
    
3. Must emphasize the healthcare security and/or safety profession.
    
4. Must be generic in order to be utilized within any healthcare facility internationally (i.e., no flags, ethnic symbols, facility identifiers, etc.).
    
5. Electronic submission is preferred.

All submitted entries become the property of IAHSS, which shall retain all rights to reproduce posters for sale or distribution to its members.

Selection
After review of all eligible submissions, the IAHSS Awards Committee will make a written recommendation to the Board of Directors for the official poster for Healthcare Security and Safety Officers Week. The winner will be notified by the Chairperson of the Awards Committee. If it is deemed by the Awards Committee and/or the Board of Directors that no submissions are worthy of receiving the award, no winner will be selected.

Award Presentation
The award consists of a plaque bearing the IAHSS seal and suitably engraved. The winning poster will be distributed to the IAHSS membership as an insert to the Summer Newsletter.