He is also the training team leader for the Behavioral Emergency Committee at the VA Medical Center. Prevention and management of dangerous behavior in health care settings are increasingly important concerns for risk managers. Many difficult issues, including safety of patients and employees, liability, and public relations, are aroused whenever a patient or visitor "acts out." The staffs response to such an event presents similar and equally challenging issues. It is clear that staff training in the management of behavioral emergencies is a primary element in health care risk management, and the risk manager can offer significant help in planning, implementing, and evaluating the organization's behavioral emergency training program. be a behavioral emergencies trainer or an expert in preventing and managing dangerous behavior, a working knowledge of such training can help fit the behavioral emergency management program into the overall risk management approach. An important function of the risk manager in this context is to ensure that the training program can be comfortably sanctioned by the organization, given the parameters of liability, safety, effectiveness, and the community standard of care. Emergency Training Program at the Veterans Administration Medical Center (VAMC) in Portland, OR. This program is more or less typical of those being offered by private consultants and in-service programs in many medical settings. It is hoped that this description will offer risk managers a means by which to begin thinking about how behavioral emergency training fits into their programs.