Below is relevant emergency classroom (or workplace) and travel planning information to consider:
- Review with the students classroom and building exits at least once each semester to improve fire alarm response. Students are unaware of room and building details, such as rooms with emergency exits (e.g., behind podiums).
- Personally review the Run-Hide-Fight response training. If you have not had a chance to participate in this training, below are related reference materials:
- DHS active shooter PDF
- https://www.dhs.gov/sites/default/files/publications/active_shooter_pocket_card_508.pdf
- Note: Hands “visible” when approaching law enforcement
- Run-Hide-Fight training video
- https://youtu.be/5VcSwejU2D0
- Produced by Houston Mayor’s Office of Public Safety and Homeland Security, and promoted by the FBI, dramatizes an active shooter incident in the workplace
- Note: Video is alarming in the beginning. Optional to begin at 1:30 mark: https://youtu.be/5VcSwejU2D0?t=1m30s
- https://youtu.be/5VcSwejU2D0
- “Run when it’s safe to run. Hide where it’s safe to hide. Fight if you or others around you have no other options.” (Albrecht, 2014)
- Expect immediately disabled elevators, and diminished cell service. Silence cell phones to protect location. If returning to room to shelter-in-place, expect police knocking and confirming identities through closed doors.