Active Assailant

Protect Your Business With a Violence Response Program

Different types of violence can occur in many workplaces. To help prevent workplace violence, management must provide visible support for a violence prevention program and communicate that there is zero tolerance for violence.

Statistics indicate that incidents of workplace violence have steadily increased over the past several years and can cost businesses a significant amount of money if not managed properly. Although homicides make the headlines, most incidents of workplace violence involve situations other than homicide. These situations can include threats and verbal abuse, physical assaults, fistfights, domestic and romantic disputes, and harassment.

Most incidents of workplace violence can be categorized into one of three types:

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Step 1: Assess Your Risk

• Help Your Organization Assess Its Security
• Preventing Targeted Violence and Threat Assessment Resources | U.S. Department of Education
• Critical Incident Preparedness Toolkit: Assessing Capacity to Respond to Active Assailant Events

Step 2: Take a course from FEMA

• IS-907a – Active Shooter: What You Can Do

Step 3: Protect your organization by being prepared

• Active Shooter Preparedness Action Guide
• ISC Planning and Response to an Active Shooter Guide | CISA
• Explore SchoolSafety.gov’s Active Shooter Preparedness – Active Shooter Preparedness | SchoolSafety.gov

Step 4: Train on Red Flag Behaviors and De-escalation techniques

• Help Mitigate Risk by Responding to Red Flag Behavior
• Top Strategies for De-Escalating Disruptive Student Behavior

Step 5: Know how to Respond to an Event

• View DHS Active Shooter Response Booklet

Additional Resources:

• Help Protect Your Community from Civil Unrest
• K-12 School Security Guide Product Suite | CISA