Healthcare Safety Toolkit Library

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.

DHS provides tools for the first responder community to become better prepared with an established and integrated response program.

This resource provides strategies on how to identify and respond to an active shooter incident.

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.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation has created a profile of a potential active shooter based upon years of examining active shooter events. This profile, which combines individual behaviors and interactions with others, fits well into education presented to staff on this topic. It will also help in developing an organizational response plan to active shooter events.

Understanding the facts and patterns of previous mass active shooter events can help organizations learn and prepare their staff for the future. Utilize this tool, which contains information from an FBI study on active shooter events, to educate your staff on commonalities surrounding past active shooter events. The information can also be useful when developing an organizational response plan to an active shooter.

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.

Acitve shooter events are increasing more and more across the U.S. and the experts have developed tools to help the lay person identify a potential active shooter as a risk reduction strategy.

Healthcare organizations should take the possiblity of an active shooter event occuring in their facility very seriously. These resources provide key tactics on managing violent and disruptive behavior as a risk reduction process.

Active shooter training is vital for all staff in a healthcare organization as they are the eyes and ears of the facility. These resources help ensure staff are trained and prepared to address violent/aggressive behavior/situations.