Active Shooter Response Training (Run · Hide · Fight)

Overview

Instructor-led active shooter response training delivered at your facility — bilingually in English and Spanish. Every course combines classroom instruction on the DHS/FBI Run-Hide-Fight (Avoid-Deny-Defend) response options, situational awareness, and law-enforcement arrival behavior with scenario discussion built around your building, communication and accountability planning, a competency quiz, and training records for each worker.

What the Course Covers

Preparedness runs from noticing sooner to responding decisively to accounting for everyone afterward. Our course covers all three — situational awareness, the Run-Hide-Fight response options, and integration with your emergency action plan — in one visit.

How Every Course Runs

Built for the people who actually work in your building — front-desk and customer-facing staff, floor workers, and managers who need to lead a response and account for their teams.

Preparedness improves outcomes — it can't guarantee them. The Run-Hide-Fight response options come from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and the FBI, and OSHA's emergency action plan standard (29 CFR 1910.38) requires covered employers to have alarm, notification, and evacuation procedures. Our course helps workers prepare and supports your emergency planning, but no training can promise a particular result in a violent event, and it does not by itself establish compliance with any standard.

Every Worker Should Know What to Do

An active shooter event unfolds in seconds, and the people already in the building are the first to respond. Every employee benefits from knowing how to decide between running, hiding, and — as a last resort — fighting, how to stay aware of exits and cover, and how to behave when police arrive. Managers get the added context to lead a response, run gathering points and headcounts, and tie it into your emergency action plan. Preventing violence before it escalates is a related priority — see our Workplace Violence Prevention Training.

Prepare Your Team Before It Matters

One on-site visit: instructor-led active shooter response training, scenario discussion in your building, communication and accountability planning, a competency quiz, and training records for every worker — in English or Spanish.

Capabilities

Run-Hide-Fight / Avoid-Deny-Defend response built around your building

Delivered bilingually in English and Spanish

Emergency action plan integration, gathering points, and headcounts

Competency quiz and training records for every worker

Frequently asked questions

Is this training available in Spanish?

Yes — every part of the course is available bilingually. Our consultants deliver the classroom session, the scenario discussion, and the competency quiz in English, Spanish, or both, so every worker understands the response options, situational-awareness cues, and communication steps in the language they work in.

What active shooter response model do you teach?

We teach the 'Run. Hide. Fight.' options promoted by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and the FBI, also taught in some programs as Avoid-Deny-Defend. Workers learn how to decide between evacuating, sheltering and barricading, and — only as an absolute last resort — defending themselves, and how to behave safely when law enforcement arrives. We build the scenarios around your actual building layout.

How does this tie into our emergency action plan?

Active shooter response should be part of your emergency action plan under OSHA's 29 CFR 1910.38, which requires covered employers to have alarm, notification, and evacuation procedures. Our course covers how workers alert others and how an armed-attacker event fits your EAP — and we can coordinate with your evacuation and emergency planning so the pieces work together. The course supports those efforts; it does not by itself establish compliance.

How do you handle communication and accountability?

We cover how to alert others quickly, how to behave when law enforcement arrives (keep hands visible, follow instructions, don't approach officers), and how to account for people afterward using pre-designated gathering points and headcounts. We also address post-incident support — recognizing that workers may need help long after the immediate danger passes.

Who on our team should attend?

We recommend all employees attend — everyone in the building may need to make a Run-Hide-Fight decision in seconds — plus managers and supervisors who would lead a response, run gathering points, and coordinate headcounts. Everyone benefits from knowing the response options; managers get the added context to tie it into the emergency action plan.

Can this training guarantee our safety in an attack?

No. No training can guarantee an outcome in a violent event. What training does is help people notice danger sooner, make faster and better response decisions, and account for one another afterward — improving preparedness. Our course supports your overall emergency planning, but it does not by itself establish compliance with any standard or promise a particular result.