Mass Shootings Defense Challenge (Workplaces & Schools)

Mass Shootings Defense Challenge: 

Employers Challenge:

1. Provide employees with Active Shooter/Mass Casualty protocol policy.  

2. Security personnel, department heads, managers, supervisors attend  AS/MC briefings every 60 days. Standard employee AS/MC briefings occur quarterly.

4. New employees receive AS/MC briefing within 10 days of employment.

5. Assign 1 primary/1 alternate Lead to new employees during AS/MC drills until minimum of 2 drills are completed/documented.

6. Implement 24-hour surveillance package indicating every outside angle, floor, hallway and elevator of the building.

7. Establish specific alarm for AS/MC event. You need zero confusion with regards to the alarm and what it means. 

8. Readdress keys, key cards and personnel access procedures. 

9. Establish specific visitors protocol for AS/MC events and designate key personnel to manage them. 

10. To mitigate firearms danger, consider adding a scanning system to workplace.

11. Designate key personnel to lead AS/MC drills and live events. Give them radios and conduct 1-2 check-ins for accountability and safety. 

Employees Challenge: 

1. Request copy of company’s Active Shooter/Mass Casualty Protocol and precisely learn it.

2. Treat briefings and drills as gospel. Never assume an AS/MC event will never occur in your workplace.

3. If your company does not conduct AS/MC briefings or drills, notify your supervisor and ask why not. 

4. Immediately notify someone if you recognize a possible threat. Immediately Initiate workplace protocol to mitigate the possible threat. 

5. Remain cognizant of people making deliveries to the building and to your respective departments. 

7. Learn designated AS/MC personnel from other departments should you get caught in their areas if an event occurs. Contact your supervisor for accountability and safety purposes.

8. Check your surroundings daily and often, whether entering or leaving the building, day or night.

9. Don't let your phone be the face of your distraction or your demise.

School Officials & Faculty Plan Challenge:

1. Provide copy of school’s AS/MC Protocol to faculty members and parents. 

2. Security personnel and faculty attend AS/MC briefings every 60 days.

3. Faculty must know and document AS/MC protocol within 30 days of employment. 

4. Security personnel and faculty receive and document AS/MC briefings every 60 days.

5. New security personnel and faculty receive and document AS/MC briefing within 10 days of employment. Designate key personnel to monitor new folks during drills until minimum of 3 drills are completed.

6. Conduct and document AS/MC drills minimum of every 60-90 days.

7. Implement a specific alarm for AS/MC for zero confusion as to what it means.

8. Readdress keys, key cards and personnel access procedures.

9. Readdress or revisit visitor protocol, particularly if you have visitors on hand during drills or an actual AS/MC event. 

10. Implement/upgrade 24-hour surveillance package showing every outside angle, floor, hallway and elevator of the buildings.

11. Parents/Guardians participate in at least one AS/MC drill annually.