Active Shooter Preparedness Training. Free for everybody. Online now.
An active shooter is a person determinedly engaged in killing or attempting to kill people. Active shooter situations are unpredictable and evolve quickly.
The threat of indiscriminate gun violence hasn’t diminished. That’s why active shooter preparedness training efforts continue to escalate across the country.
The goal is to help lower the body count by equipping people with the latest life-saving preparedness training.
Built with the assistance of national subject matter experts from the law enforcement community, this free online course is intended for any audience, at work, at home, in school.
Vivid Learning Systems is an online safety training provider – it’s what we do. That’s why building this active shooter preparedness training course and making it publicly available is the least we could do.
Who is this free active shooter preparedness training course for?
Everyone. Active shooter events happen at more than just schools and higher learning facilities like colleges and universities.
This course was designed with all ages in mind.
Talk with your family. If you have school-age children in your life, talk with their schools, ask about their planning and response. Ask children what lock-down measures and drills mean in their school and how they work. Discuss what you would do if you and your family were ever involved in an active shooter incident. Proper preparation makes you and your family safer.
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What employers will receive from this training
- Self-protection tips during an active shooter incident and self-protection/safety awareness against any possible dangers during everyday life
- Knowing what to look for and how to react during an active shooter incident in the workplace
- Suggestions for minor security upgrades to work stations, and cover tools for self-protection
- Active Shooter Awareness training drills where employees will return to their work stations and the trainer simulates an active shooter incident
- Each employee will act as if it was real, and use the training that was provided in the earlier seminar. After the drill, the trainer will debrief with all employees and provide further instruction (if needed) with corrections and feedback.
- Vulnerability Assessment where the trainer will walk the grounds of the organization, search for vulnerable access points, and identify the most effective hiding places and escape routes
- Confidence about being a survivor, not a victim
Workshops
Below are a quick breakdown of our various training workshops as part of Take Action AST
Maximum Participants: 100
Participants will learn proven techniques on how to survive an active shooter taught by a security expert and professional instructor. This training is designed for civilians and private sector professionals to increase their personal resiliency and the likelihood of surviving an incident before the police arrive. Additional information regarding statistics pulled from FBI and related reports will be discussed to support developing the threat profiles for suspicious persons. Threat response topics include: how to escape during an incident, how to barricade and lock down, how to report to law enforcement, and how to fight back using improvised weapons, if absolutely necessary. By the end of the lecture, participants will have a thorough understanding of how active shooter incidents begin and evolve.
The second level workshop includes the “How to Survive an Active Shooter Lecture.” In addition, students will learn to deploy the concepts taught during the training in an environment that will test their skills and thought processes, challenging them to react faster under stressful situations. Participants will experience simulated scenarios in their own environment (school, workplace, etc) in which they will be forced to react using the tools and techniques they’ve learned to survive when the bullets start flying. This kind of training is as real as it gets.
The second level workshop includes the “How to Survive an Active Shooter Lecture.” In addition, case studies will be reviewed, prevention measures will be taught, and signs of impending violence will be discussed while threat profiles for suspicious individuals are created. Pre-planning, attention to detail, and environmental situational awareness are stressed. Included table top exercises that test participants’ knowledge, understanding, and reaction to perceived threats and crowd source immediately risk deployable mitigation strategies to minimize potential threats to the workplace.
The third level workshop includes all of the above Level 1 and Level 2 content to create a comprehensive, hands-on, immersive, learning workshop. It is considered AEGIS’ gold standard program employers should provide to their staff in today’s elevated threat environment.
The fourth level workshop begins with a customized physical security assessment based on crime prevention through environmental design with an emphasis on target hardening and root cause analysis as well as review of both the standard operating procedures and emergency action plans. Prior incidents are discussed while perceived and potential threat vectors are identified. At the conclusion of this session, a detailed outline will be compiled to provide the basis for drafting proposed physical, SOP, and EAP improvements. The second half of this session is a delivery of the Level 3 Workshop above for up to 50 participants. This full day program is designed for top level directors and executives interested in adapting their current security programs to the prevailing threats in the world today