Ensure that your organization is ready to handle an active shooter situation with these tips.

Don Cox, VFIS Education Specialist, shares active shooter preparedness tips and assessment tools in EMS World.

Here’s a shocking fact: In the U.S., there was approximately one mass shooting per day in 2017. Does your emergency service organization have specific plans in place to deal with an active shooter?

Regularly preform risk assessments that include:

• Identifying vulnerable areas within your organization and community, and recommending ways to reduce them
• Supplying the latest information/tips/ training methods to your members
• Developing partnerships with public entities that may provide mutually beneficial in a crisis
• Conducting regular public education sessions in your community to help inform citizens
• Staying abreast of the latest safety and training technologies
• Investigating best practices for using existing conventional equipment to manage crisis events
• Setting dates to regularly evaluate, update and upgrade crisis-response plans

To read the entire article, including new standards from the National Fire Protection Association and more resources, visit:  https://www.emsworld.com/article/219951/active-shooter-response-tools-better-preparedness