Active Killer Workplace Violence
Under OSHA’s General Duty Clause, an employer is required to protect its employees against “recognized hazards likely to cause serious injuries or death.” As such, all employers are required to develop and enact policy outlining prevention of workplace violence and emergency plans in response to an active shooter/workplace violence scenario. According to the FBI, there were over 160 active shooter incidents between the years 2003 and 2013.
The Jibreel Group training team, CQCM offers active killer / violent intruder planning and response training by contract to education, corporations, healthcare agencies and designated places of worship. Our training consists of tailored risk assessment and methods for planning an effective response in alignment with the most realistic options (evacuate, barricade in place or mass attack). These methods are fluid and participants are trained to quickly assess the situation and react accordingly. We offer 5 modules of training in active shooter/killer response.
Module 0: Organization Workplace Safety In Service
1 Hour - $200 (travel dependent)
Group Size - (up to) 50
This One hour in service encapsulates and directly improves the overall safety of a organization, facility and its employees by adding to how people think. We discuss how we assess risk, prepare for every day events and change how we see safety and how that new view effects our ability to responding in an emergency event. These In service training sessions are on site at your facility and may improve annual safety training requirements may reduce Insurance liability and most importantly improve the safety and morale of your employees, team members and community.
Module 1: Introduction to Active shooter/Mass Attack response lecture.
2 Hours - $300
Group size - 50
Our lecture includes review of recent and historical violent events relevant to the specific market sector or group we are training, increasing situational awareness, assessing risks/threats, recognizing gun fire, barricading, understanding evacuation and the dangers of a mass evacuation stampede.
Module 2: Introduction to Active shooter/Mass Attack response workshop.
3 Hours - $500
Group size - 50
This workshop is the most comprehensive introduction training session available. Topics include situational awareness, assessing risk/threat, recognizing gun fire, evacuation, barricading, swarming and disabling a shooter, evacuating casualties and navigating the mass evacuation stampede that occurs during or just after a mass attack. This training module incorporates practical exercises and introduces scenarios in order to reinforce the training objectives and allow for some low level stress testing of response options.
Module 3: Attacking the Attacker
4 Hours - $600
Group size - 25
This module focuses on an often overlooked and difficult aspect of active shooter response. Civilian unarmed engagement of an active killer. Very few agencies conduct this training because of liability concerns or the challenges of physical interaction and potential triggering of trauma. At CQCM we understand these concerns but feel we would not be providing the best service available if we did not cover this vital, last resort response to an active shooter/killer scenario. The module covers understanding the dangers and limitations of firearms or an edged weapon, recognizing various forms of gunfire, setting a group or individual ambush and reacting to an in the room attack. These tactics are meant to help disable an attacker or redirect a firearm and allow for others to help or escape the immediate threat area until law enforcement arrives.
Module 4: Immersion Training.
4 Hours - $800
Group size - 25
Our Active Shooter scenario Immersion Training combines all aspects of planning and response, reinforced through scenario based training to include role players, simulated casualties, violence and training safety staff. This training should only be scheduled after attendees have been exposed to modules 1 or 2.
This kind of training develops decision making under duress and assists in reinforcing skills for evacuating, barricading, swarming, emergency trauma care and casualty evacuation. This module involves our full team of experienced trainers in order to ensure a safe training environment and that participants are employing lessons learned in the previous training events.
Each scenario is followed by an after action review in order to focus on actions taken, potential improvements in the decision making process and lessons learned.
Module 5: Armed Active Threat/killer response
4 Hours - $150 per person
Group Size - 25
This module is focused on the base set of skills, mentality and response mechanisms of the licensed gun owner(s) to respond to an active threat with deadly force; it is not a marksmanship course. This module covers: individual and group safe but expedited movement to a threat, room clearing, cover vs. concealment, moving target engagement, moving while engaging a target, reacting to an in the room threat (draw / don’t draw), shoot / don’t shoot, actions when LE arrives. Skills and responses are reinforced by instructor lead force on force scenarios against role players using airsoft guns for immediate feedback.
CQCM also offers three levels of Certification in Lone Agent Active Shooter Response (LAASR): Responder, Agent and Operator.
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Ongoing Active Killer refresher and sustainment training
As more information is gathered and society experiences more varied and evolving threats it becomes ever more important to stay informed of those threats, the most current defense practices and accepted methods for increased safety and security. Physical Skills in defensive options are often perishable and are lost or less effective due to lack of use or practice.
Clients of CQCM or entitled to ongoing support in the form of refresher and sustainment training at a 20% discounted rate.
High risk employee terminations sometimes devolve into violence. Many human resources professionals are now trained in mitigating risks when planning an employee termination. This is not their specialty. CQC has experience training human resources representatives as well as security personnel in how to plan and conduct employee terminations as a team using methods that reduce the risk of violence and potential liability to the company.
Participants walk away with a realistic understanding of what to anticipate during a shooting, ways to plan and implement a barricading strategy and how to engage a shooter as a group or mass attack.
Police, Armed Security & Military
CQC specializes in training armed individuals in weapons retention, a primary skill in the armed security industry and one for which there is much liability applied. Any armed person is 100% responsible for maintaining the control of his or her weapon and is equally accountable for shots fired from that weapon. CQC trains armed personnel and individuals in weapons retention through methods designed to take advantage of strength, speed, leverage and body mechanics.
This group may also have the unique responsibility of responding to an active shooter event taking place in a school, place of worship, corporate setting of healthcare facility. More often than not, these individuals are alone onsite before support arrives. In these situations, armed personnel must assess and determine the need for immediate action versus waiting for backup to pursue the threat as a team.
According to the 2014 FBI Report, “A Study of Active Shooter Incidents in the United States between 2000 and 2013”:
A total of 60% of active shooter incidents ended before police arrived
69% of incidents lasted 5 minutes or less, with 36% ending within 2 minutes or less
On average, police response times in the US are between 4 and 12 minutes. The average active shooter event is over in under 5 minutes.
CQCM has one of one a few Solo active shooter response training programs in the country. CQCM lone agent active shooter response (LAASR) training prepares police, armed security or armed civilians with tactical maneuvers for efficiently responding during an active shooter event in order to seek out and potentially preempt and neutralize the threat. LAASR combines quick methodical search movement with an understanding of how the mind processes information. Ensureing that a lone agent will have eyes on and be able to put rounds on a dangerous target before that target even see them.
CQCM Now offers on site threat, criticality and vulnerability assessments.
Ever wondered just how vulnerable your facility may be to a violent intruder? Umar Arrastia is a federally certified anti terrorism officer. CQCM now has the tools to conduct a full evaluation on your site to determine potential security improvements by evaluating the critical assets, accessibility and threats. In doing so we can rate the likelihood an attack may occur against any of your assets and how. This full risk assessment is vital information is key to providing a safe space for your most important asset, people. We provide a full prioritized report of these risks, options for improving on any vulnerabilities and even resources for the improvements.
Tailored Training
It has become increasingly common for workplace or environmental threats to prompt corporations or private groups to seek tailored training modules designed to address unique circumstances.
Examples of unique security concerns include:
a known local threat
unsafe workplace location or environment
threats of a potential hate crimes or violent activism
concerns about the rise in non-school related active shooter events
To ensure the effectiveness of tailored modules, CQCM conducts interviews with clients in order to record their safety concerns. Additionally, CQCM personnel may survey the area in order to assess the security of the facility and/or travel routes. These critical added elements are used to customize a training block for clients in order to maximize the immediate application of lessons.
We will give you the skills to be more aware, tactics to be more dangerous to a threat and the confidence to act and survive.
CQCM Defensive combat modules run from unarmed defense, armed and improvised weapons, weapons retention, and weapons counter deployment. With over 40 years in law enforcement, military and civilian combatives and martial arts training and practical experience, CQCM has built programs that are immediately applicable to your safety. Skills not designed around being the strongest or fastest, but the smartest. Taking advantage of the psychology of aggression and element of surprise. We have the experience at all ranges to cut through the cloud of martial arts programs and self defense systems and focus on what works for people of all sizes and skill levels.