How to Navigate the “Crisis After the Crisis”

What happens after an active shooter event?

The Location Becomes an Active Crime Scene and is Closed

After the incident, you’ll engage in assessments with local law enforcement, like accounting for all individuals, and your location will be closed and considered an active crime scene. Be prepared to lose profits and delegate any immediate projects to corporate if applicable. Communicate to employees and the public that your location is closed for the time being. During this time, create a transition plan that details when your location will resume normal operations.

See what to do when the press arrives.

Prevent Crises with Active Shooter Preparedness Training

Surviving the “crisis after the crisis” is possible, though no workplace wants to go through this. You can potentially prevent an active shooter event at your workplace with TPOP’s active shooter preparedness and verbal de-escalation training. Your staff will learn how to recognize concerning behaviors, report them, de-escalate situations, survive an active shooter event using the Run, Hide, Fight methodology, and much more.

Let’s talk today about your training needs.

Why Use Industry-Specific Training?

Are you looking for training that caters specifically to your industry?

Personalized, comprehensive, industry-specific training can be:

Optimize Preparedness – Industry-specific training provides specific skills and knowledge that general training often doesn't. An office worker and concert venue worker have different work environments that require different training. For example, the concert venue employee might not have many places to hide and must prepare for open space attacks, something the office worker might not have to worry about. Conversely, someone working in an office needs to learn how to barricade office doors, and doesn't need to worry as much about dealing with large crowds. Industry-specific training helps employees properly prepare for an active shooter event and better envision their escape plan.

TPOP offers industry-specific training for:

• Office facilities
• Utilities and energy companies (in the field and in utility facilities)
• QSR and table service restaurants
• Food retail
• Commercial Retail
• Healthcare facilities
• Mass gatherings and entertainment venues
• Houses of worship

Learn about the other benefits of specific, personalized training.

Secure Your Personalized Active Shooter Preparedness E-Learning

When you choose TPOP's online training for verbal de-escalation and active shooter preparedness, you can further personalize the training in a number of ways. Our instructors are filmed on green screen backgrounds which means that we can “place” the industry experts in front of images in your workplace (your office, your restaurant, your warehouse etc.). This creates a more familiar surrounding and further personalizes the training for your teams.  You can also create a personalized video introduction from your management which displays at the beginning of the training. And finally, we can customize the course content and duration to your individual training needs.

Let’s talk about your training needs today.

 

Why Personalized Training is Better for Everyone

Browsing workplace violence preparedness (WPV) training for your workplace? 

Want to give your employees skills on situational awareness, verbal de-escalation, and active shooter readiness?

You should be! The majority of active shooter preparedness training on the market is designed for an office environment, which can be helpful if that's where your employees spend most of their time. But if your workplace is a retail store, a restaurant, a factory, a warehouse, an entertainment venue or some other unique environment, then your employees might be left with more questions than answers. There is also an abundance of quick video training options that leave much to be desired. Some organizations choose options like these because they can quickly satisfy the OSHA General Duty Clause obligation, but you’ll be doing your employees a disservice by choosing training that doesn't consider the unique risk factors and challenges of your workplace.

Personalized, comprehensive, industry-specific training has the following benefits:

Increase Employee Confidence – When your staff learns how to respond appropriately to workplace violence in their specific environment, this will increase their confidence and make them feel safer and more secure while at work.

Maximize Knowledge and Retention – Industry-specific training that aligns with an employee's everyday workflow and environment is easier to absorb and easier to remember. Building muscle memory for acting under pressure is critical and that task is faster to develop when the lessons resonate directly with the learner. 

Learn other benefits of industry-specific training.

Secure Your Personalized Active Shooter Preparedness E-Learning

When you choose TPOP's online training for verbal de-escalation and active shooter preparedness, you can further personalize the training in a number of ways. Our instructors are filmed on green screen backgrounds which means that we can “place” the industry experts in front of images in your workplace (your office, your restaurant, your warehouse etc.). This creates a more familiar surrounding and further personalizes the training for your teams.  You can also create a personalized video introduction from your management which displays at the beginning of the training. And finally, we can customize the course content and duration to your individual training needs.

Let’s talk about your training needs today.

Prevent Active Shooter Events by Speaking Up

Is your workplace secure?

Want to prevent workplace violence?

There are often changes in a person’s behavior before they commit violence. Two potential indicators of impending violence are:

Extreme emotions ‒ These emotions can manifest themselves as depressive and withdrawn behavior, intense anger or hostility, or disconnected and robotic behaviors. Bullying, harassment, and confrontational behavior can also increase.

Making threats ‒ Threats themselves count as workplace violence, and when their frequency increases over time, violence may follow. Threats like, “something bad may happen to you,” or “watch your back,” must be taken seriously.

If you see something, say something. Report concerns to your supervisor, HR department, or security. Do not accuse the offender to their face. This may agitate them.

To learn more about active shooter prevention, visit our website.

Prevent Violence: Active Shooter Preparedness

Steps can be taken to diminish and mitigate active shooter events. In the Virginia Beach shooting, there were many signs leading to the assailant’s attack. Along with other red flags, the assailant was posting negative sentiments about the company online. If this behavior was reported, the event might have been prevented.

TPOP’s active shooter preparedness training can teach you and your employees more behavioral indicators and verbal de-escalation techniques to prevent workplace violence. You will also learn situational awareness, the Run Hide Fight methodology, and how to respond to injuries.

Contact TPOP today to increase the security of your workplace.

How to Observe and Report Anomalous Behavior

Have you ever experienced concerning behavior from a co-worker?

Want to know how to respond?

It’s rare that people just snap. People experiencing extreme stress and emotions will often show signs of violent behavior before committing a violent act. This is called the “pathway to violence,” and it’s on this pathway that people exhibit behaviors and traits that are inconsistent with their normal behavior.

These include:

Increased use of alcohol and drugs ‒ Potentially violent individuals are already having trouble handling their emotions and stress. The use of alcohol and drugs can make this worse.

Changes to typical behavior ‒ Extroverts may become more introverted, seeming more withdrawn and remote. Introverts may become extroverted, seeming overly boisterous or even aggressive.

If anything about their behavior seems unusual, or similar to the indicators above, you need to act. Ask what your company’s HR policies and guidelines are for situations like these. Pay attention to your coworkers and monitor their behavior.  Report concerns to your supervisor, HR department, or security.

For more behavioral indicators, visit our website.

Prevent Violence: Active Shooter Preparedness 

TPOP’s active shooter preparedness training can teach you and your employees more behavioral indicators and verbal de-escalation techniques to mitigate workplace violence. You will also learn situational awareness, the Run Hide Fight methodology, and response to injury.

“TPOP covered all of our workplace violence topics in one course. What used to take three to four hours now takes less than one. Perfect.”

Contact TPOP today to increase the security of your workplace.