Workplace Intruder: Smart Preparation for Personal Safety (Foundation Employee)
35 min! Run Time
Employees
only
of Completion
Description
The Workplace Intruder Course for Personal Safety explores the need for workplace intruder preparation, ways to prevent and deescalate possible violent situations, and how employees can prepare to invoke the Run, Hide, Fight model advocated by US governmental agencies such as DHS, FEMA, and the FBI. It also addresses what individuals should do in the aftermath of such an incident.
System Requirements
See System Requirements in the Coggno Knowledge Base
Author
Workplace Intruder: Smart Preparation for Personal Safety (Foundation Employee)
Frequently Asked Questions
It applies the same prevention, deescalation and Run, Hide, Fight content, but frames every step around an individual employee's own personal safety rather than staff oversight.
The course first teaches ways to prevent and deescalate a possible violent situation, treating those as earlier options before an intruder response is needed.
Both are cited as causes of workplace-intruder incidents, which the course uses to show why personal preparation matters no matter what triggers the incident.
DHS, FEMA and the FBI, whose Run, Hide, Fight recommendations the personal-safety content is built around for individual employees.
Because rational thinking often does not prevail in a chaotic emergency, so the course treats each person's own advance preparation as the most reliable safeguard.
Workplaces are prone to many different risks. Emergencies are unexpected, often chaotic events when rational thinking often does not prevail. In recent years, the US has faced a proliferation of workplace-intruder incidents due to several factors, including domestic problems spilling into work, worker revenge, mental instability, and terrorism. Just as workplaces prepare for fires with emergency drills, employees also can ready themselves for other emergencies such as workplace intruders. When emotions risk overshadowing a careful response, employees can best prevent, mitigate, or protect themselves from violent incidents through preparation. This course explores the need for workplace intruder preparation, ways to prevent and deescalate possible violent situations, and how employees can prepare to invoke the Run, Hide, Fight model advocated by US governmental agencies such as DHS, FEMA, and the FBI. It also addresses what individuals should do in the aftermath of such an incident.
Course Length: 35 Minutes