Learn Safety Training to Counter Violence with A life Saved
It has been widely observed that the nature of an act of violence is unpredictable and degenerative, not to mention the ensuing chaos that workplace violence causes. Since such an event is always possible, it is critical for organizations to ensure a dynamic and rapid response during an act of violence. As a result, it is essential to provide workplace safety training to your employees so that they can react quickly and make informed decisions about whether to avoid, barricade, or confront.
Who are a life saved?
We respond to workplace violence and its aftermath as trained first responders. Our trainers have witnessed these instances firsthand, and their experiences serve as the basis for our presentations and material. Our team combines the lessons learned with more than 25 years of experience in learner-based, adult-centered training to deliver influential, enduring, and life-saving content.
In case of an act of violence, our safety training resources are designed to enable a prompt and effective response and reasoned decision-making.
Furthermore, our experiences demonstrate that it is possible to considerably reduce the likelihood of an act of violence through a proper threat assessment. At ALS, we don't emphasize defensive tactics. Instead, we specialize in situational awareness instruction and tried-and-tested preventative techniques.
What are safety training to counter violence and its aftermath?
The safety training to counter violence is divided into three categories; Prevention, Preparation, and then Reaction.
Prevention:
We assist organizations in fine-tuning their anti-harassment policies to include an Affirmative Reporting Requirement. For preventing workplace violence, employees must be trained to recognize and report behavioral patterns that deviate from the established baseline toward potentially violent behavior.
A group or body within the organization should investigate and document behavior-based safety. These investigations and their outcomes should not be punitive in nature. As productive members of the organization, such employees should be provided with the necessary resources for remediation through an employee assistance program
Preparation:
The critical element of our preparation strategy for such events is TIME. The response from law enforcement does not begin until someone else recognizes the event for what it is and alerts local law enforcement. In the short window between the commencement of an event of workplace violence and the arrival of the first responders, the victims are on their own. Thus, people should be empowered to make decisions to improve their survivability.
Reaction:
We take a different approach to reactive strategies for workplace violence and use the acronym ABC to describe our response campaign.
AVOID
It means to avoid the offender by making tactically sound decisions rather than reacting in a panic. It is crucial to assess the perpetrator's activity (what they are doing) and location to avoid them (where they are). We can make wise judgments to protect our lives and the lives of others once we are equipped with this knowledge.
BARRICADE
In place of the passive act of hiding, this suggests using a previously known secure area to barricade oneself in or immediately discovering one that can be guarded. There is strong evidence that perpetrators of workplace violence will switch to simpler targets when they come across a barred door.
CONFRONT
If a potential victim lacks the resources to apply the Avoid or Barricade techniques, we think the unrestricted confrontation with improvised weapons should only be used as a last choice. Our safety training is based on the fact that confronting the attacker should always be the last option.
How do we help with our services?
Our safety training curriculum focuses on taking preemptive action. This entails making a "hard target" out of potentially violent offenders and early detection and intervention. We can only calculate how many lives we save if we accomplish the preventative part properly.
Our training program is organized in the following order: prevention, preparation, and reaction. As previously stated, our main priority is prevention.
Our main goal is to avoid an act of violence before it occurs, but we understand this is not always possible. But preparation is also a crucial component. If we are appropriately prepared, we can reduce the number of people hurt or killed in an act of violence.
