The shooter’s right in front of you; now what?
Cover and concealment doesn’t work when a shooter leaps into the room. Diving to the floor and fast crawling our may work. Get Out may be your only option.
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Cover and concealment doesn’t work when a shooter leaps into the room. Diving to the floor and fast crawling our may work. Get Out may be your only option.
Fire alarms sometimes mean that an active shooter attack is in progress. Revise traditional fire alarm procedures by working closely with fire and police officials; adjust to the new normal.
Be aware of who’s looking at you. Report suspicious surveillance activities and take action. Remember that many assailants use surveillance as a planning tool,
Fences and locked doors don’t work if the threat is an insider. IDENTIFY the threat, COMMUNICATE the threat, ACT on the threat. Prevention and interventions are left-of-bang strategies.
Your encounter with responding police is a tense situation. Proper actions will safe your life, and improper actions such as waving something in your hands, or failing to comply to commands, may get you shot.
Sticking your head out to look for an assailant is dangerous. Your cell phone camera may be used as a mirror to see if the coast is clear.
Get Out (run) and Get Down (hide) when you can’t run. There’s a nurse in the picture; students show us new hiding tricks on every AS360 exercise.
During healthcare active shooter exercises, AS 360 discovered that caregivers could not always Get Out, because patients could not be […]
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