About the Training:

The analysis of active shooter incidents at malls, manufacturing facilities, healthcare, offices, houses of worship, colleges, schools, and public settings have suggested a need for preventive strategies to increase employee survival. This training will focus on helping employees develop strategies to prepare for, train to survive, and suggestions “choices” to consider in active shooter and workplace violence incidents.

The training will discuss “Best Practices” of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) guidelines of run, hide, fight. Tactical employee self-protection and survival choices will be suggested through analysis of videos of actual active shooter incidents.

Active Shooter Seminar Content:

• “Lessons Learned” from past active shooter / assailant incidents

• “Best Practices” and Department of Homeland Security / OSHA Guidelines / ASIS Standard.

• “Red Flags” – Assessing people of concern:

            - Who are the "bad guys"?

            - Behavioral indicators of aggressive people

• Developing an Employee "Survival Mentality

            - How do “real people” react during “real” active shooter incidents

            - Fight, Flight, Freeze, Act!

• Shots Fired! “The First 30 Seconds”

            - “Survival choices” - Evade, Barricade, Engage

            - “Defending” yourself and your space – reacting to intruders

            - DHS Suggestions of run, hide, fight - disrupting, distracting, engaging the perpetrator

• Managing the Aftermath

            - Reducing employee trauma

• Developing a Comprehensive Workplace Violence Prevention Program

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Co-Sponsors

• Library of Michigan
• MIOSHA CET Division
• Center for Workplace Violence Prevention
• Incident Management Team

Trainer: Dr. Kenneth Wolf          (248) 217-1677         email: kwolfphd@theimt.org

Dr. Kenneth Wolf has conducted violence prevention, threat assessment and verbal diffusion trainings for a wide range of healthcare, retail, service organizations and industries. He has consulted with the United States Postal Service, UAW, municipalities and Fortune 500 Companies. He assists organizations with developing comprehensive workplace violence prevention programs, trains threat assessment teams, conducts active shooter survival training exercises and designs crisis recovery programs.