05-09-2023, 02:44 PM
I very much recall when they started implementing mandatory annual Active Shooter training at work - sometime around 2017, give or take a bit (until I retired just over a year and a half ago, I worked at a DoD laboratory).
Then, in late 2019 they started "hardening" the office spaces - every work area (think by Department) had its entrances locked off, so that only people who worked in that Department could enter (via their ID card being scanned & PIN entered at the door).
And this is on a secure military base - so it was pretty much mostly for the thought of an insider threat (i.e. a co-worker deciding to shoot up the place).
Somewhere, I have the training materials (including, yes, a quick-reference card and longer guidebook on what to do; from what I recall they just used the DHS's already-existing stuff; doing a quick search - looks like they still have them (and more added since!).
The one thing I remember from the annual training was what I thought was a dubious "correct" answer on what to do if hiding out:
If you're in your locked office that has a glass window (looking out onto a hallway), the "incorrect" choice was to move out of sight of the window, so that anyone outside in the hallway cannot see you. I don't remember what the "correct" answer was supposed to be - I always got that question wrong each year.
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Then, in late 2019 they started "hardening" the office spaces - every work area (think by Department) had its entrances locked off, so that only people who worked in that Department could enter (via their ID card being scanned & PIN entered at the door).
And this is on a secure military base - so it was pretty much mostly for the thought of an insider threat (i.e. a co-worker deciding to shoot up the place).
Somewhere, I have the training materials (including, yes, a quick-reference card and longer guidebook on what to do; from what I recall they just used the DHS's already-existing stuff; doing a quick search - looks like they still have them (and more added since!).
The one thing I remember from the annual training was what I thought was a dubious "correct" answer on what to do if hiding out:
If you're in your locked office that has a glass window (looking out onto a hallway), the "incorrect" choice was to move out of sight of the window, so that anyone outside in the hallway cannot see you. I don't remember what the "correct" answer was supposed to be - I always got that question wrong each year.
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