The US has more active shooter incidents than any other nation in the world. All too often, government, corporate and even health care facilities are targeted by active shooters.
Preparing for such incidents is a basic necessity for anyone responsible for a facility’s overall safety. At the Urban Survival Academy, we train people to handle active shooter defense based on our experience in the US Special Forces.
While the causes and solutions to mass shootings can be debated endlessly, preparing for such a situation is something you can do right now, and it might end up saving lives in the future.
Who Is this Training For?
We provide this training to school-based and local law enforcement agencies, hospital security, workplace administrators, even churches and anyone else who needs to be sure that they have a proactive response in the event of an active shooter or violent intruder incident.
No, you don’t have to be part of an official agency to take this training. It’s available, and necessary, for anyone who has responsibility for a location that an active shooter might target.
Active Shooter Defense Training Design
This particular training is a supplement to the procedures known as “lock-down” and “secure in place.” The methods and preparation strategies taught in our Active Shooter Defense offering provide an enhanced, effective and researched-based response in these deadly incidents.
The topic areas include:
Policy and Procedures review
- Components of an Active Shooter Emergency Operations Plan that emphasizes survival strategies
- Review of the Active Shooter Readiness Status of institutions, determine their strengths and weaknesses
- Determining high and low priority issues for advising and procedure revisions
Infrastructure Design
- Analyze building design for safety hazards
- Design room layouts for Active Shooter Defense
- Reveal the best and most immediate methods for improving infrastructure hazards
Proactive Use of Technology
- Analyze current technology resources available to enhance building and occupant safety
- Review current accepted practices for using technology to enhance building and occupant safety
- Discuss way to use technology to interfere with the intruder’s ability to locate targets
- Review case studies of past events and use them to determine best technology usage
Community Resource Assistance
- Locating and obtaining community assistance before, during and after an Active Shooter event
- Locate community rally points
- Discuss potential community partners and what they have to offer
- Learn how to liaison with local government agencies
Mass Evacuations
- Discuss rapid mass evacuation plans
- Discuss tactical advantages associated with maintaining distance vs. securing in place or barricading
- Identify non-conventional methods of mobilizing large numbers of people
First Aid for Trauma
Techniques designed to extend injury survival time so assistance has time to arrive
Practical Scenario Training
This involves actually conducting a practical scenario. It will give you a chance to experience, visualize and reinforce the concepts you learn in the course.
We teach a lot of different survival skills here at the Urban Survival Academy. Out of all of them, these are the ones we genuinely hope you never have to use. If you ever need them, however, you’ll be glad you took this training.
Contact us for class availability and more information.