Active Shooter Planning, Preparedness and Response
Reducing the risk of encountering an active shooter situation is important to any business, especially healthcare. These resources provide tools on how to plan what to do in the event of an active shooter/violent situation.
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Active Shooter Response: What Can You Do?
All employees can help prevent and prepare for potential active shooter situations within their facilities. This training course provides guidance to individuals, including healthcare managers and employees, so they can respond effectively to an active shooter situation.
This course was written and intended for non-law enforcement personnel. However, the material may provide law enforcement officers information on recommended actions for non-law enforcement employees should they be confronted with an active shooter situation.
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Active Shooter Drill Preparedness
This training video has been provided by UCSF Medical Center to assist hospitals in their planning and training for active shooter incidents.
The video depicts Active Shooter preparedness activities through a team drill within the hospital environment. Employees in the healthcare field can understand the importance of their role in response and protection of patients.
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Active Shooter Drill Preparedness PowerPoint Template
Intended for use in conjunction with the Active Shooter Drill training video, this resource has been provided by UCSF Medical Center to assist hospitals in their planning and training for active shooter incidents. The Active Shooter Response powerpoint presentation template is for use in educating employees and other personnel.
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Public Health Emergency-Active Shooter Planning
Active shooter planning in the healthcare arena is an important part of the emergency operations plan. This resource provides tools to incorporate active shooter incident planning as a preventative measure of the emergency operations plan.
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DHS-Integrated Response: Resources Active Shooter
DHS provides tools for the first responder community to become better prepared with an established and integrated response program.
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DHS-Active Shooter: How to Respond
This resource provides strategies on how to identify and respond to an active shooter incident.
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Active Shooter Planning and Response in a Healthcare Setting
This document provides a broad overview of healthcare active shooter planning along with assistance for your facility in preventing, planning for, and responding to an active shooter event that occurs in a healthcare setting.
Within the downloadable PDF document, this resource outlines law enforcement tactics, crime scene management, coordinated response efforts and ethical considerations for dealing with the aftermath of an active shooter incident.