Active Shooter Situation
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Created on September 16, 2024
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Transcript
Active Shooter Situation
Evertir Cargo
Know your plan
What to watch for
After the Incident
Law Enforment
Run!
If there is an accessible escape path, attempt to evacuate the premises. Be sure to:
- Know your exits!
- Evacuate – even if others won’t follow
- Leave your belongings!
- Help others escape, if possible
- Keep others from entering
- Keep hands visible and follow the instructions of police officers
- Do not move the wounded
- Call 911 when safe
Home
Next Step
Hide!
If evacuation is not possible, find a place to hide where the active shooter is less likely to find you.
- Get small, dark, and quiet
- Silence your phone
- Provide protection if shots are fired in your direction (i.e., an office with a closed and locked door)
- Lock AND Blockade
Home
Next Step
Fight!
As a last resort, and only when your life is in imminent danger, attempt to disrupt and/or incapacitate the active shooter by:
- Acting as aggressively as possible against him/her
- Throwing items and improvising weapons
- Yelling
- Committing to your actions
Home
Next Step
Law Enforcement Arrives!
Remember:
- Stay calm and follow instructions
- Put down any items you are holding, raise your hands with spread fingers, and keep hands visible at all times
- Avoid making quick movements toward officers or yelling and screaming
- Do not stop to ask officers for help or direction when evacuating, just proceed in the direction from which officers are entering the premises
Next Step
Home
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Next Step
Prepare to Survive!
Additional Ways to Prepare For and Prevent an Active Shooter Situation
- Preparedness
- Know your exits
- Review the posted evacuation routes throughout the facility
- Train – Participate in Emergency Response drills
- Plan on what you can do in your workplace to give you the best chance to return home safely.
- Prevention
- Foster a respectful workplace
- Be aware of indications of workplace violence and take remedial actions accordingly
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Next Step
How can you tell?
Employees typically do not just “snap,” but may display some of the following indicators of potentially violent behavior over time:
- Increased use of alcohol/illegal drugs
- Unexplained increase in absenteeism
- Decrease in appearance/hygiene
- Depression / withdrawal
- Resistance and overreaction to changes in policy
- Repeated violations of company policies
- Increased severe mood swings
- Noticeably unstable, emotional responses
- Explosive outbursts of unprovoked anger or rage
- Suicidal; comments – “putting things in order”
- Paranoia, (“everybody is against me”)
- Increasingly talks of problems at home
- Escalation of domestic problems into the workplace; talk of severe financial problems
- Talk of previous incidents of violence
- Empathy with individuals committing violence
Home
After the Incident!
- Account for your people.
- Notify your family.
- Health Care specialists and counselling.
- What can we do to carry on?