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New Years Resolutions for Workplace Security
A new year is a great opportunity for workplaces to improve their emergency plans, perform security upgrades and engage in maintenance management of their entire facility.
As part of our mission to reduce your risk of workplace violence, we at the Soteria Group believe that now is the prime time for necessary workplace safety and security upgrades including:
- Have a vulnerability assessment done by qualified workplace safety professionals.
- Customize their Emergency Management Plan in collaboration with first responders and utility managers.
- Update the Emergency Operation Plan (EOP) Safety Plan (SP) Contingency of Operation Plan (COOP).
- Ensure emergency drill charts or documentation for emergency drills are present in each room throughout the facility.
- Conduct safety training with all staff annually.
- Create emergency kits for main area.
- Conduct training on the use of such kits before the beginning of the new year.
- Create lockdown safety/comfort boxes or kits.
- Identify a primary and secondary evacuation site and prepare evacuation plans for both sites.
- Ensure the entrance and egress points are clearly marked by way finding signage.
- Upgrade your access management system to incorporate a digital/electronic system.
- Upgrade visitor badges to include a digital image of the visitor and clear identification information.
- Test your notification and fire drill systems.
- Ensure all notification systems can be heard from every area of the site.
- Upgrade intercom systems to two-way communication systems with a system other than a simple hardline telephone.
- Check batteries in notification systems and detection systems such as fire and carbon dioxide detectors.
- Add mirrors on interior halls that have 90 degree or otherwise obstructed corners or angles.
- Replace door hardware as to not be able to chain or otherwise secure the door from the outside.
- Upgrade door locking systems to allow for doors to be secured from the inside and provide for security assess such as card key access where necessary.
- If you have a large site mark rooms on the exterior to match the markings on the interior.
- Preform landscaping to provide for clear line of sight such as trimming trees and vegetation as so trees branches are no lower than 6 feet from the ground and vegetation is no higher than 2 feet high.
- Repair or replace damaged fencing and upgrade to a fencing type that is designed to not be easily jumped.
- Upgrade or conduct maintenance on lighting systems to provide for proper lighting around the entire campus.
- Install, upgrade or perform maintenance on camera systems to provide for clarity and eliminate any blind spots around your site.
- Test, upgrade or replace security monitoring systems and monitor viewing locations.
- Install a duress or panic type notification system at the point of entry and other location as deemed necessary.
- Bus and other transportation employees should receive a driver’s safety course prior to the beginning of the new school year.
- Provide a means for staff to report items of concern or things in need of repair.
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No Workplace is Safe Now
The past two weeks have shown that no workplace is safe from horrific workplace violence.
Some workplaces know they are targets. Planned Parenthood, churches, government buildings, banks, temples and mosques all need to design their workplaces with an eye toward thwarting an attack using the principles of Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (CPTED). The massacre in San Bernardino has revealed that even the most innocent of locales can come under massive deadly attack.
The San Bernardino bloodbath is shocking because it is apparently a hybrid incident of international terrorism as well as an attack by one coworker against his former colleagues.
Giving into mindless fear doesn’t do anyone any good. The targeted workplaces mentioned above have many workplace safety lessons for your business.
“Workplaces that survive such attacks while minimizing casualties have some very important practices that every workplace should institute,” says Richard H. Price Principal, Senior Analyst, CPTED CPD with Soteria Group, Safety by Design, who served 21 years as an FBI Special Agent.
“When there’s an active shooter, you need a plan. Your best plan is to escape. Know your exits. If you can’t escape, have safe areas that a perpetrator can’t get to,” says Price. “Communication links to the outside are most important. Every office should have a hard line telephone and a cell phone with the local police number pre-programmed in. Depending on which state you’re in, cell phones are programmed to connect you to highway patrol when you dial 911, although what you want and need is your local police. When the cavalry is responding to help you, having communication with responders is crucial.”
“Organizations who know that they are under threat make personal safety a priority for everyone on site. There is an urgent need to keep people safe, and it is built into the very design of their facilities,” says Arthur R. Tatum, Director of Design for FBT Architects and Principal of Soteria’s Environmental Design Division. “More so than any other workplace, aside from perhaps banks, these workplaces understand the need to incorporate Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design Principles (CPTED).”
The Soteria Group monitors threats to workplaces across the country. In addition to online college campus violence threats, Soteria Group has noticed an increase in threats to churches, temples and mosques. The majority of workplace violence events are preceded by such obvious threats. The violence seems to strike out of the blue and only after the fact do authorities connect the dots that make the threats retroactively clear.
“You can’t expect a threat warning. Every workplace is one disgruntled employee or ex-boyfriend away from such violence,” says Paul Feist, Principal, Senior Analyst and CPTED CPD with the Soteria Group, who has 25 years of experience in law enforcement. “This massacre is a wake-up call for America. You have to treat your workplace as if you’ve already received a warning.”
Consider your workplace. What would have happened if last week’s attack happened there?
The Soteria Group can help you minimize the risks and impact of such an attack. Soteria Group’s workplace violence prevention and safety trainings are the gold standard:
Active Shooter Response Training
Building An Emergency Operation Plan
Crisis Management Team (CMT) Formation and Function Training
National Incident Management System (NIMS) and Incident Command Systems (ICS) Training
Call the Soteria Group (505-263-7059) to arrange a workplace risk and response training session for your team.
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Clery Campus Crime Reports Expose Major School Violence Vulnerabilities
“It is shocking how many campuses have left themselves vulnerable to school violence, such as an active shooter,” says Richard H. Price Principal, Senior Analyst, CPTED CPD with Soteria Group, Safety by Design, who served 21 years as an FBI Special Agent. “Of all the campuses we’ve analyzed, NONE are doing everything they should to prevent school violence.”
With the intention of gaining insight to how the Clery campus crime reports can be better utilized in identifying vulnerabilities on campuses nationwide, the Soteria Group has recently reviewed Clery reports of universities and colleges in our surrounding states.
As a result of such reviews, Soteria Group has identified areas for improvement in security, including gaps that could make campuses vulnerable to the unthinkable — an active shooter.
What the Clery Act Does:
| Campus Crime Data
The Jeanne Clery Act, a consumer protection law passed in 1990, requires all colleges and universities who receive federal funding to share information about crime on campus and their efforts to improve campus safety as well as inform the public of crime in or around campus. This information is made publicly accessible through the university’s annual security report. |
Support for Victims
Under the Act, institutions must provide survivors of sexual assault, domestic violence, dating violence, and stalking with options such as changes to academic, transportation, or living, or working situations, and assistance in notifying local law enforcement, if the student or employee chooses to do so. It also provides both parties in a campus disciplinary process certain rights. |
Policies & Procedures
Colleges and universities must outline specific policies and procedures within their annual security reports, including those related to disseminating timely warnings and emergency notifications, options for survivors of sexual assault, domestic violence, dating violence, and stalking, and campus crime reporting processes. |
Many Campus Vulnerabilities Exposed
“If you know what you’re looking for, most Clery reports show that even with good faith efforts, most school and college campuses haven’t even done some of the basic, low-cost improvements that can literally mean life or death in an active shooter rampage,” says Paul Feist, Principal, Senior Analyst and CPTED CPD, with the Soteria Group, who has 25 years of experience in law enforcement.
“It isn’t a matter of being a high crime campus. In fact, just the opposite. Campuses that have higher crime rates have police/security departments that understand how campus design and training can make a big difference. They are already moving in the right direction,” says Feist. “It is the low or no-crime campuses that you really have to worry about. It is that false sense of security that, in part, led to the Umpqua College massacre.”
If you’re a school administrator or campus police/security, you need to immediately address some of the common vulnerabilities we see in most Clery reports, such as:
- How often is your text warning system list updated?
- What are the specific patterns of video coverage? Are you missing key areas (such as parking lots and perimeter areas) where violence occurs?
- What systems do you have in place for shooter containment and location tracking?
- What technologies are you using to secure classrooms in lockdown?
- When was the last time your staff went through any Active Shooter Response Training or Drills?
- Do you have an Emergency Operation Plan?
- Do you have bullying or tip lines for people who may be at risk. How are such concerns handled?
- Do you have Emergency Management Training?
- How many of your staff are trained to use the National Incident Management System (NIMS) and Incident Command Systems (ICS)?
- When was your campus evaluated for target hardening/CPTED by certified professionals?
Since Clery reports are public documents, other people will see where your organization is deficient, which opens you up to increased civil scrutiny if something happens on your campus.
“With one site visit, we can help you improve your campus security,” says Arthur R. Tatum, Director of Design for FBT Architects and Principal of Soteria’s Environmental Design Division. “We can help you prepare for and prevent campus violence by using Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (CPTED) techniques, staff trainings and creating or modifying your emergency operation plan.”
Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (CPTED) principles include:
- Natural Surveillance
- Natural Access Control
- Territorial Reinforcement
- Maintenance
The Soteria Group is certified in CPTED, combining our extensive experience in law enforcement and architecture to analyze and remedy risks for on-campus violence BEFORE it happens. We look at the environmental, psychological and social logistics surrounding school campuses, workplaces, and other vulnerable locations to determine the risk factors for violence and how to fix them. From architecture to online behaviors, we know what to look for and how to minimize risk and damage.
Our campus violence prevention and campus safety trainings are the gold standard:
Active Shooter Response Training
Building An Emergency Operation Plan
Crisis Management Team (CMT) Formation and Function Training
National Incident Management System (NIMS) and Incident Command Systems (ICS) Training
Call the Soteria Group (505-263-7059) to arrange a campus risk and response training session for your team.
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Here’s the Workplace Violence and Active Shooter Legislation We Need to Enact Yesterday!
Last week’s campus violence included two college campus stabbings (in New Jersey and California) and social media threat by Fresno State student to start shooting people Monday at 3:00 with his M4 carbine. Fortunately the student who confessed to making those threats was arrested. Countless acts of workplace violence, especially toward healthcare workers, never made the news.
When violent events happen, most TV pundits immediately debate gun control legislation. While we understand this need for establishing a clear cause and effect, we know that it is complicated and, therefore, cannot happen quickly. We at the Soteria Group want to work with legislators and civic leaders on hardening the targets that attract so much violence. We think that this is the kind of legislation that will unite the nation while pushing to establish something concrete and efficient.
Across the country nearly two million employees are victims of workplace violence annually. Such assaults cause about 500,000 employees to lose 1,751,000 days of work annually. Employees who fall victim to workplace violence lose $55 million annually in wages. All this adds up to a $4.2 billion annual expense for employers as well. If you add up secondary costs, employers lost between $6.4 and $36 billion each year.
Workplace violence comes in four main categories:
- criminal intent (everything from robbery to active shooter)
- customer/client
- worker-on-worker
- personal relationship
“While some states such as California, New York and Illinois have laws that touch on workplace violence prevention for specific sectors such as public employees or healthcare workers, none has the comprehensive approach that we at the Soteria Group believe is necessary,” says Richard H. Price Principal, Senior Analyst, CPTED CPD with Soteria Group, Safety by Design, who served 21 years as an FBI Special Agent.
Police Training Isn’t the Answer
“Across the country, well-intentioned police departments will give an afternoon seminar about workplace violence or an active shooter drill. But these laudable efforts, while better than nothing, can’t really give people the protection they need,” says Paul Feist, Principal, Senior Analyst and CPTED CPD, with the Soteria Group, who has 25 years of experience in law enforcement.
Current legislation focuses wrongly on the police: Some legislation, like this law in California, gives police money for active shooter training. While this seems like a good idea, police arrive too late for most instances of workplace violence. Most active shooter incidents are finished in 300 seconds. There were police officers on the site of many active shooter incidents going all the way back to Columbine High School. By the time the police have mobilized on the scene, the worst of the violence is often over and all that is left is the killing or the capture of the shooter.
Campuses and workplaces need to secure themselves. Schools, campuses, and workplaces must learn to defend themselves instantly by designing areas with the insights derived from Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (CPTED).
Cops are trained in many things, but not CPTED. The police academy doesn’t teach architecture, workplace training, designing security system, and crafting emergency plans. Police-led seminars give false hope because they don’t prepare schools and businesses to prevent, contain, and deal with the aftermath of workplace or campus violence. Going into that level of depth is beyond the scope of the best intentioned police officer.
Communities want police on patrol protecting them, not Powerpointing businesses all day long. Cops are better deployed doing their job of actively protecting people. The cities and counties that hired these police officers want them to patrol the community, not spend all their time behind a lectern.
The need for workplace and campuses violence protection is more than any police department could satisfy. There are 135,000 campuses in this country. There are millions of businesses. Workplace violence training needs to be budgeted for and mandated to follow certain standards across the board.
The Comprehensive Workplace Violence Legislation All States Need to Adopt:
We at the Soteria Group agree with Mark Haynes‘ plan outlined in Workplace Violence: Why Every State Must Adopt a Comprehensive Workplace Violence Prevention Law. Here are excerpts of Haynes’ Parameters for Workplace Violence Legislation. (To see the full text and the citations, click on the link above or download the PDF):
Require a Worksite Analysis
A worksite analysis is a systematic program that looks at the workplace to find existing or potential hazards for workplace violence. The recommended steps for a worksite analysis include, but are not necessarily limited to, analyzing tracking records, conducting screening surveys, and analyzing workplace security.
Analyze workplace security
At least annually, the workplace violence prevention committee should inspect the workplace and evaluate employee tasks to identify hazards that could lead to violence. The committee should analyze incidents and account for what happened to cause the incidents. The committee must also identify jobs or locations with the greatest risk of violence as well as those jobs or locations that put employees at risk of assault, including how often and in what circumstances it is most likely to occur.
Require Programs to Emphasize Hazard Prevention and Control
Once workplace violence hazards are identified through the worksite analysis, the next step for the employer is to create measures through both engineering and administrative controls to minimize workplace violence hazards.
Engineering Controls
Engineering controls attempt to remove the workplace violence hazard from the workplace or create a barrier between the worker and the hazard. Examples of engineering controls include the installation and maintenance of alarm systems, security devices, panic buttons, hand-held alarms, or noise devices. Where appropriate, employers can use metal detectors to detect weapons. In public high risk areas, employers may use closed-circuit video recording on a 24-hour basis. Employers can also provide or designate employee “safe” areas for emergencies.
Require Programs to Provide Ongoing Safety Training
Training and education ensure employees are aware of potential security hazards and equipped with the skills necessary to protect themselves and their co-workers when incidents of workplace violence arise. Employers must explain to their employees that workplace violence is not 100% preventable. However, employers must also explain to their employees that while workplace violence may sometimes be expected, it can be mitigated through frequent training.
Training programs must involve all employees, including supervisors and managers. New and reassigned employees must receive an initial orientation about workplace violence prevention before being assigned their job duties. Qualified trainers should provide instruction on workplace violence prevention at the comprehension level appropriate for the employees they are training. Topics of training may include personal safety training such as how to prevent and avoid assaults or how to manage assaultive behavior. Effective training programs should involve role playing, simulations, and drills.
Require Regular Program Evaluations
Top management must review the workplace violence prevention program regularly to evaluate its success. Workplace violence prevention committees must reevaluate policies and procedures regularly to identify areas for improvement and to take corrective action. Management must also share workplace violence prevention evaluation reports with all employees. Any changes in the program should be discussed at regular meetings with any union representatives or other employee groups.
Additional Component: Require Employers to Practice Their Plans
The FBI study on workplace violence prevention recommends that employers also regularly practice their workplace violence prevention program. The study notes that no workplace violence prevention program will work if employees are unprepared when incidents arise. Training exercises must include the senior executives charged with making decisions in a real-life incident. The exercise must also be followed by an objective evaluation that will fix any deficiencies that are revealed.
Crime Prevention through Environmental Design Needs to Be Mandated for All Government-Controlled Buildings
“We at the Soteria Group believe that planning and training is the key to prevention, but public buildings such as schools need to be held to a higher design safety standard,” says Arthur R. Tatum, Director of Design for FBT Architects and Principal of Soteria’s Environmental Design Division. “We can’t mandate Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design requirements for private buildings, but I think the law should definitely mandate that schools, at the very least, have these design principles instituted immediately.”
Target Hardening/CPTED
All government-owned buildings should utilize the principles of Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (CPTED), which are as follows:
- Natural Surveillance
- Natural Access Control
- Territorial Reinforcement
- Maintenance
This set of internationally recognized principles minimizes the opportunity for crime by effective use of design. Public buildings should be evaluated by CPTED certified practitioners who can write a report detailing the many simple and inexpensive measures that can be taken to increase the safety of a facility by taking into account the way a space is designed or laid out.
The Soteria Group has strong beliefs about how workplace violence and active shooter training should be spelled out in pending legislation. Our workplace violence and campus safety trainings are the gold standard for any proposed workplace violence and active shooter training legislation:
- Active Shooter Response Training
- Building An Emergency Operation Plan
- Bullying
- Crisis Management Team (CMT) Formation and Function Training
- Emergency Management Training
- National Incident Management System (NIMS) and Incident Command Systems (ICS) Training
- Target Hardening/CPTED
Call the Soteria Group (505-263-7059) to arrange a workplace risk and response training session for your team.
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Healthcare Workers Are At the Top of the List When It Comes To Being Victims of Workplace Violence. What You Can Do to Protect Them.
Across the nation, healthcare workers are seeing an increase in workplace violence, and are calling for training standards at the federal, state, and local levels. Administrators in healthcare facilities need to start providing workplace violence training now, before they find themselves on the losing side of a liability lawsuit.
According to United States Department of Labor, Occupational Safety and Health Administration (“OSHA”), healthcare workers suffer 50 percent of all workplace assaults.
“Healthcare workers are the single most attacked profession out there,” says Richard H. Price Principal, Senior Analyst, CPTED CPD with Soteria Group, Safety by Design, who served 21 years as an FBI Special Agent.
“Based on the workplace violence that we’ve seen, almost every healthcare facility from the biggest hospital to the smallest dentist’s office is leaving their workers wide open to attack. These healthcare teams desperately need to be safer,” says Paul Feist, Principal, Senior Analyst and CPTED CPD, with the Soteria Group, who has 25 years of experience in law enforcement.
For years OSHA has been recommending a violence protection program for healthcare workers that examines everything from the employees and their worksite to administrative activities such as accurate recordkeeping to get a real handle on the true scope of the problem.
And the violence doesn’t come solely from patients and their associates. Some of the worst offenders are fellow healthcare workers. Recently the American Nurses Association announced a zero tolerance stance on workplace violence that said in part:
A recent ANA survey of 3,765 RNs found nearly one-quarter of respondents had been physically assaulted while at work by a patient or a patient’s family member, and up to half had been bullied in some manner, either by a peer (50 percent) or a person in a higher level of authority (42 percent).
The position statement’s recommendations to prevent and mitigate violence, in addition to setting a “zero tolerance” policy, include:
- Establishing a shared and sustained commitment by nurses and their employers to create a safe and trustworthy environment that promotes respect and dignity
- Encouraging employees to report incidents of violence, and never blaming employees for violence perpetrated by non-employees
- Encouraging RNs to participate in educational programs, learn organizational policies and procedures, and use “situational awareness” to anticipate the potential for violence
- Developing a comprehensive violence prevention program aligned with federal health and safety guidelines, with RNs’ input
To prevent bullying, ANA recommends that employers:
- Provide a mechanism for RNs to seek support when feeling threatened
- Inform employees about available strategies for conflict resolution and respectful communication
- Offer education sessions on incivility and bullying, including prevention strategies
But rather than waiting for national standards to emerge, some state healthcare groups are taking action now.
In Montana, the Montana Nurses Association wants to make assaulting health care workers a felony:
“Like firefighters and police officers who turn toward people in need, nurses run toward patients in need, regardless of the personal sacrifice. That’s the conviction of a nurse, but that does not mean that there should not be laws and measures taken to protect them,” MNA Executive Director Vicki Byrd said during the campaign announcement. “You can be imprisoned for a year for hitting a sports official or a police dog, but not a nurse,” she added.
In California, after Governor Jerry Brown vetoed a bill that would’ve increased penalties for workplace violence that occurred in emergency departments, the Emergency Nurses Association has called for increased workplace security and training.
In Massachusetts, Boston nurses revealed rampant workplace violence at the state’s psychiatric hospital. Now the Massachusetts Nurses Association is pushing a state bill that would mandate plans to protect employees from workplace violence.
The Soteria Group is a national security consulting firm that can address the needs specific to workplace violence experienced by healthcare employees in your locale.
“We look at all entrances and exits to reconfigure flow and determine which require additional security controls and surveillance,” says Arthur R. Tatum, Director of Design for FBT Architects and Principal of Soteria’s Environmental Design Division. “We also train employees on how to deal with workplace violence and victims of domestic violence both in the co-worker and patient populations.”
Healthcare workers are in the business of saving lives. So are we.
In answer to these needs, the Soteria Group is offers a Free Snapshot Overview. The Snapshot Overview is our opportunity to find out what reports, plans, and other documents you already have in place.
We look for the controls and processes that function to mitigate vulnerabilities in your organization and identify those that may be missing. This data-dive provides us with a basis of understanding that will determine the steps and process to be taken for a future Vulnerability Assessment. Conducting a Snapshot Overview is the first step an organization should take when developing a Safety or Emergency Operational Plan, and periodically as a maintenance practice to keep the plans up to date with changes to your organization.
The Snapshot Overview:
- Identifies existing risk management strategies and policies
- Provides a roadmap to identify individual vulnerabilities
- Develops a matrix of your options and assesses them against your priorities
- Indicates the appropriate approach and plan for your facility
- Identifies how your resources (physical and procedural) are allocated
- Provides you a detailed time and expense estimate for a full Vulnerability Assessment
The findings from the Snapshot Overview will lay the groundwork to conduct a thorough, and comprehensive Vulnerability Assessment of your organization’s ability to navigate danger.
Structured like a bank stress test, in a seminar setting, Soteria will create an analysis of an various violence scenarios to determine whether your campus has the resources, training and infrastructure to deal with such an attack.
“Being prepared is the key to saving lives. With our experience we can guide your team through the worst cases and best practices.” says Tatum.
To get the safety conversation started, give the Soteria Group a call (505-369-7436) to arrange for one of our training sessions:
Active Shooter Response Training
Building An Emergency Operation Plan
Crisis Management Team (CMT) Formation and Function Training
National Incident Management System (NIMS) and Incident Command Systems (ICS) Training
Call the Soteria Group (505-263-7059) to arrange a workplace risk and response training session for your team.
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Active Shooters: How a Free Service Can Start Protecting Campuses Now
This morning a Tennessee campus shooting left one student dead. It’s just another school day in America.
“Every week at schools across America, guns are being brought to school or someone is planning to do so,” says Richard H. Price Principal, Senior Analyst, CPTED CPD with Soteria Group, Safety by Design, who served 21 years as an FBI Special Agent. “If we can’t stop the bullets, the very least we can do is protect the students the best way we know how.”
“With every active shooter rampage that strikes college campuses, school officials need to minimize their risk and maximize the effectiveness of their active shooter response,” says Paul Feist, Principal, Senior Analyst and CPTED CPD, with the Soteria Group, who has 25 years experience in law enforcement.
In answer to these needs, the Soteria Group is offers Snapshot Overview. The Snapshot Overview is our opportunity to find out what reports, plans, and other documents you already have in place.
We look for the controls and processes that function to mitigate vulnerabilities in your organization and identify those that may be missing. This data-dive provides us with a basis of understanding that will determine the steps and process to be taken for a future Vulnerability Assessment. Conducting a Snapshot Overview is the first step an organization should take when developing a Safety or Emergency Operational Plan, and periodically as a maintenance practice to keep the plans up to date with changes to your organization.
The Snapshot Overview:
- Identifies existing risk management strategies and policies
- Provides a roadmap to identify individual vulnerabilities
- Develops a matrix of your options and assesses them against your priorities
- Indicates the appropriate approach and plan for your facility
- Identifies how your resources (physical and procedural) are allocated
- Provides you a detailed time and expense estimate for a full Vulnerability Assessment
The findings from the Snapshot Overview will lay the groundwork to conduct a thorough, and comprehensive Vulnerability Assessment of your organization’s ability to navigate danger.
Structured like a bank stress test, in a seminar setting, Soteria will create an analysis of an various violence scenarios to determine whether your campus has the resources, training and infrastructure to deal with such an attack.
“Being prepared is the key to saving lives. With our experience we can guide your team through the worst cases and best practices.” says Arthur R. Tatum, Director of Design for FBT Architects and Principal of Soteria’s Environmental Design Division.
To get the safety conversation started, give the Soteria Group a call (505-369-7436) to arrange an active shooter risk and response training session for your team. The Soteria Group also offers the following more intensive trainings:
Active Shooter Response Training
Building An Emergency Operation Plan
Crisis Management Team (CMT) Formation and Function Training
National Incident Management System (NIMS) and Incident Command Systems (ICS) Training
You can’t think your school is immune. 295 school shootings so far this year prove that it is only a matter of time before the next school shooting hits your area. Act now.