ReadyResponse™

Customizable Workplace Violence Preparedness and Response Plans:

• Provide a program for preventing and managing actual and/or potentially violent situations
• Provide guidance on prevention and mitigation to help employees, supervisors, and managers
• Identify, assess, defuse, and resolve a situation
• Enumerate and assign roles and responsibilities for dealing with multiple types of violent crises
• Provide for the care and support of victims and their families
• Establish an orderly return to normal operations
• Outline Crisis Communications strategies
• Outline initial and continuing training program elements

Armed Aggressor Virtual Training:

• Accepted practices for coping with an active shooter situation
• How to respond when an active shooter is in the vicinity
• How to respond when law enforcement arrives
• Recognizing potential workplace violence
• Managing the consequences of an active shooter situation

Armed Aggressor Table-top Exercises:

• Interactive, discussion-based exercises focused on an active shooter at a business, manufacturing, or industrial facility. Scenarios consist of three modules Initial Incident Response, Sustained Response, and Short-Term Recovery, and are designed to
• Assess the effectiveness of plans, and procedures for an active shooter incident at a business/manufacturing/industrial facility
• Examine the ability to provide timely and relevant information regarding the incident to decision-
• makers
• Assess procedures for coordinating and sharing information among responding organizations and with the public
• Review organizational interdependencies and recovery plans
• Identify improvements that could make the difference in keeping staff safe and reopening quickly after a significant disruption

Staff Experience in Response and After Action Reporting (AAR)

• Unified Command member – State agency level
• Addressed diplomatic, political, and special interest requests for information
• Coordinated communications
• Fatality and patient tracking
• Critical Incident Stress Management (CISM)
• Virginia Tech 2007 Active Shooter AAR