Run. Hide. Fight. These words may not seem like much of a battle plan when it comes to dealing with the threat of an active shooter incident in your business. However, they define the fundamentals of responding to an active shooter, and if your employees and managers do not understand them, fatalities during an incident …
Managing Uncertainty Podcast: Episode #5 – Leading during an Active Shooter Incident
In this episode, Bryghtpath Principal & CEO Bryan Strawser, along with Senior Consultant Jenn Otremba and consultant Lindsay Bradford, discuss leading through an active shooter incident. Together, Bryan, Jenn, and Lindsay led through a major active shooter incident at a Fortune 30 corporation that turned out to be a false alarm after nearly four hours of …
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How to Evaluate Plan Effectiveness After Active Shooter Exercises
Having an active shooter plan ready is not enough to prevent an incident from growing worse, or even a guarantee of success during an actual event. A strong active shooter program will involve an evaluation of plan effectiveness through an after-action process following each active shooter exercise – including conducting a new threat assessment, and …
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6 Tips to Make Enterprise-Wide Active Shooter Training Successful
Conducting active shooter training across your organization is not a small task, especially if your company extends across large geographic areas. Rather than leaving your employees to fend for themselves with PowerPoint presentations exclusively on workplace violence and active shooter planning, consider using these tips to make enterprise-wide training successful. 1. Use workshops to highlight …
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Caught in the line of fire: 8 ways to help consumers respond to an Active Shooter
Active shooter planning helps your organization mitigate the risks and damages associated with active shooter incidents. Unfortunately, your active shooter plans are incomplete if you do not consider third-party victims or witnesses to the event. In other words, your team needs to understand how to help customers and visitors respond, as explained by the Department …
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Recognizing an Active Shooter in the Making
It’s easy to look back on the bad things in life and think of how you might have handled things differently. Yet, an active shooter incident is not something to reflect on only after it happens. There is a connotation that every active shooter plans to commit an attack for weeks or months in advance. …
Defining Workplace Violence: Why Is It Dangerous?
Few events can be more terrifying than facing an active shooter in your business. Unfortunately, the number of active shooter scenarios has risen to a point where statistics are available. Per the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational and Safety Health Administration (OSHA), active shooter incidents are classified as a type of workplace violence, and in …
5 Crisis situations you should be ready for right now
Crises happen to companies every day – and the vast majority are ill prepared. Everyone practices safety drills for fire, hurricane, tornado or earthquake, even though the likelihood of an incident is slim. Yet, there are scenarios that are more likely and arguably more impactful to a team, shareholders and your bottom line. Here are …
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