Understanding the Realities of Workplace Violence/ Active Shooter/Practical Personal Defense

Terry Choate & Joe Hileman, BlueU Defense
 

This critical course is designed for corporations, schools, universities and healthcare facilities and provides for a foundation that is designed to prepare attendees for the “one critical moment” when they may be required to make a decision that could potentially save their lives or the lives of those that they are charged to care for. This course will take them to the next level in Active Shooter/Workplace Violence training, skills and protection and empower them. The keys to survival in a sudden and traumatic incident that may require a split second life-or-death decision are a proper mindset based in preparation, managing fear, controlling your heart rate, and understanding exactly not only what happens to you in such a situation, but as importantly, what happens to your adversary. With a high level of understanding comes opportunity. You must understand your capabilities in advance! This course will bring you this critical level of understanding of these types of incidents and fill your toolbox with options and skills that will raise your level of performance through tactics and fear management.

Healthcare professionals, when its comes to safety and dealing with aggressive, violent people, are very much like law enforcement officers – we cannot enter into a violent encounter with a goal to win! Our goals are to safely restrain with the least amount of force possible.

Ultimately the most successful way to stay safe is to avoid the confrontation or incident completely. Recognizing the signs of a potentially dangerous person is one of the most critical tools that you can possess. Assessing a potential threat and reacting appropriately to it is something that must be driven by your organizations policy. This course covers threat assessments, recognizing signs of violence, appropriately dealing with a potential threat, forming threat assessment teams, and more.

Topics covered in this course include:

OSHA and Workplace Violence; What is an Active Shooter; Lockdown vs. Evacuation; The Dynamics of an Incident; Fear - Is it Good or Bad; Hallways/Classrooms/Offices/Gathering Areas; The Office is the High Ground; Running Towards vs. Away From Your Adversary;

Creating Resistance; Weapons of Opportunity; Planned Weapons; Understanding Rooms/ Hallways/Entryways; OODA Loop; The Mind of the Adversary; Natural Weapons - Intuition, Instinct, Will, Fear; Threat Assessments; Intelligence Gathering; Understanding Your Adversary and How This Creates Opportunities for You to Win

Participants will:

• Leave this course with extremely unique, practical, and highly effective options for making critical, split seconds decisions that are designed to provide for the absolute best opportunities to stay safe during a sudden incident of violence. Further, attendees will learn to recognize the signs of imminent violence and how to avoid it however, should they find themselves requiring physical restraint, they will learn to do it safely with the least likely methods to injure those that they care for.

• Be empowered with a solid understanding of the mental aspects of safety and protection, understanding of policy and policy generation, and tactics that go well beyond the Dept of Homeland Security’s Run, Hide or Fight doctrine.

• Leave with a solid understanding of the threat assessment process, policy related to threat assessment and building threat assessment teams designed to provide for the best opportunities to eliminate a threat of danger before it happens.