Businesses and Employers
A selection of references, trainings, and videos has been compiled below to assist businesses and employers in understanding how to prevent, prepare for and respond to an active assailant incident. This is not a comprehensive list of resources. Businesses are encouraged to utilize these resources as a starting point.
Although different terminology has been developed for response strategies (Run, Hide, Fight; Avoid, Deny, Defend; React, Escape, Survive), all have common goals of increasing employee/public awareness prior to an active assailant incident, educating on readily adaptable options, and increasing survivability. One strategy is not recommended over another.
Prevention
Active Shooter: What You Can Do (FEMA Course: IS-907)
https://training.fema.gov/is/courseoverview.aspx?code=IS-907
Written for employees but applicable to the public, this training reviews how to recognize potential workplace violence indicators, actions to prevent active assailant incidents, and how to interact with law enforcement responding to an incident.
Planning
Hands-On Training and Simulation Videos
Stop the Bleed®
https://www.stopthebleed.org/
One of the best ways to increase a person’s likelihood of survival when severely injured during active assailant incident is to quickly stop severe bleeding. Coworkers can provide initial life-saving measures. The Stop the Bleed® site provides resources on how to organize an in-person training, life-saving strategies and posters, instructional videos, and aid kits to place in common areas.
Surviving an Active Shooter
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DFQ-oxhdFjE
This 9.5-minute video, developed by the LA County Sheriff’s Office, is applicable to all businesses. The video outlines strategies for increasing survivability and helps answer the question “What would you do?” during an active assailant incident at work, school, or in public.
Civilian Response to an Active Shooter
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0It68YxLQQ&feature=youtu.be
This 11.5 minute video developed by the Advanced Law Enforcement Rapid Response Training (ALERRT) Program provides a scenario in a large business, but the Avoid, Deny, Defend strategy is relevant to any business and the public. It highlights a variety of practical strategies to help survive an active assailant.
InfraGard – Partnership for Protection
https://www.infragard.org/
The InfraGard is a partnership between the FBI and members of the private sector. The program provides a vehicle for seamless public-private collaboration with government that expedites the timely exchange of information and promotes mutual learning opportunities relevant to the protection of critical infrastructure.
FBI – Domestic Security Alliance Council (DSAC) Member Portal
https://www.dsac.gov/
DSAC is a strategic partnership between the U.S. government and the U.S. private industry that enhances communication and promotes the timely and effective exchange of security and intelligence information between the federal government and the private sector.
