HOSPITALITY SECURITY EXPERT WITNESS & RISK CONSULTANT
More than four decades of hospitality security and safety experience providing expert witness, litigation support, risk management, and security consulting services to law firms, insurers, hotel owners, operators, and management companies.
Plaintiff and defense matters | Nationwide consulting | Based in Phoenix, Arizona
HOSPITALITY SECURITY EXPERT WITNESS & RISK CONSULTANT
More than four decades of hospitality security and safety experience providing expert witness, litigation support, risk management, and security consulting services to law firms, insurers, hotel owners, operators, and management companies.
Plaintiff and defense matters | Nationwide consulting | Based in Phoenix, Arizona
40+ YEARS OF HOSPITALITY SECURITY EXPERIENCE
SPECIALIZED HOSPITALITY SECURITY EXPERTISE
Global Hospitality Security Solutions provides independent hospitality security expertise to professionals responsible for evaluating incidents, litigation, risk, and hotel safety operations.
Our work is focused specifically on the hospitality industry and the unique security, operational, and risk-management issues associated with hotels, resorts, extended-stay properties, and other lodging environments.
- HOTELS & OWNERSHIP GROUPS: Independent evaluation of hotel security programs, operations, staffing, policies, procedures, training, emergency preparedness, and potential areas of exposure.
- INSURANCE & RISK PROFESSIONALS: Hospitality-specific insight supporting claims evaluation, loss prevention, risk analysis, and litigation involving lodging properties.
At its core, GHSS specializes in providing expert consultation in hotel security risk management, tailored to meet the needs of hotels, ownership and management groups, attorneys, insurance firms, and businesses.
OUR SERVICES INCLUDE:
- Collaborating with legal teams and insurance firms to provide insights through pre-trial findings.
- Developing, reviewing, and enhancing safety and security policies and procedures.
- Conducting comprehensive hotel security risk assessments to support businesses in evaluating and improving their programs and processes and to identify areas of risk.
SALVATORE CACCAVALE
FOUR DECADES OF HOSPITALITY SECURITY EXPERIENCE
Salvatore “Sal” Caccavale is the Principal of Global Hospitality Security Solutions, a hospitality security and safety consultant and forensic liability expert with more than four decades of lodging industry experience.
Sal began his hospitality security career with Hilton Hotels Corporation in 1983 and went on to hold security leadership positions at multiple Hilton-branded properties and within the broader Hilton organization.
Throughout his career, he has worked with hotel executives, ownership and management organizations, law-enforcement agencies, attorneys, insurers, and risk professionals on hospitality security and safety matters.
His industry recognition includes the Thomas G. Davis Loss Prevention Lifetime Award and Hilton’s Global Spirit of Pride Award. He has also received recognition from local, state, and federal law-enforcement organizations for his professional collaboration and assistance.
WHY COUNSEL RETAIN GHSS
Hospitality security cases are rarely limited to a single policy, employee, security officer, or piece of equipment.
Understanding how a lodging property actually operates can be critical to evaluating what occurred, what responsibilities existed, and whether the actions taken were consistent with accepted hospitality security practices.
HOTEL OPERATIONS EXPERIENCE
Decades of experience inside the lodging industry provide an operational perspective on how hotels manage guests, employees, security, emergencies, and risk.
SECURITY LEADERSHIP
Experience overseeing hotel security programs and working with hotel executives, ownership organizations, management companies, law enforcement, attorneys, insurers, and risk professionals.
HOSPITALITY-SPECIFIC ANALYSIS
Hotels present security challenges that differ significantly from those encountered in office buildings, retail environments, apartment communities, and other commercial properties.
GHSS focuses specifically on the lodging environment.
INDEPENDENT EVALUATION
Opinions are developed from the available evidence, applicable circumstances, and professional experience—not from assumptions about which party retained the expert.
HOSPITALITY SECURITY ISSUES WE EVALUATE
NEGLIGENT SECURITY
Evaluation of crime foreseeability, prior incidents, security staffing, patrols, access control, surveillance, policies, procedures, and response practices.
HUMAN TRAFFICKING
Evaluation of trafficking indicators, employee awareness, reporting practices, guest and visitor activity, surveillance, training, policies, procedures, and hotel response.
GUEST ROOM SECURITY
Electronic locks, key issuance, unauthorized entry, door hardware, privacy, access procedures, and related security practices.
VIOLENT CRIME
Assaults, shootings, robberies, domestic violence, workplace violence, and emergency-response issues involving lodging properties.
HOTEL OPERATIONS
Analysis of security responsibilities involving hotel ownership, management, franchising, staffing, operational control, and coordination among multiple entities.
SECURITY PROGRAMS
Evaluation of security policies, procedures, staffing, training, incident reporting, investigations, emergency preparedness, and risk assessments.