What Could You, Would You, Should You Do To Survive A Catastrophic Workplace Violence Situation?

There you are, minding your own business - doing your work, and then all you hear is the sound of screaming, crashing, and gunfire! At least you think it's gun fire. After all, you've only ever heard it in the movies before this very moment.

Question: What could you, should you, would you do, if this were happening to you right now?

Thank God it's not, right? I mean, after all, this is just a hypothetical question.

Right?

But, what if it wasn't?

What if, out of the blue... you know... when you least expect it...

...you find yourself inside hell and need to survive?

What then?

Here's another question: Can YOU, right now... do ANYTHING at all?


Do you have a plan of action?

A plan that you can follow as soon as something happens? Or, will you have to try to figure things out through all of the noise, screaming, and maybe even the sight of some of your friends falling dead and wounded around you?

Do you have the skills necessary for evading your attackers, avoiding or otherwise protecting yourself from incoming gunfire, a flailing knife blade, club or other weapon? Or, will you shrink and cower in fear, hoping that your pleas for mercy will be heeded by a crazy lunatic who only plans to kill himself when he's finished with everyone else?

I know how gruesome this sounds but, this is my job. My job is to be very clear about - to be willing to see, understand, and respond to the very things that most people don't want to even think about.

If you're like most managers and employees in the business world, your company has a workplace violence plan that is a shell - a "standardized" policy - which includes a statement of "zero-tolerance," a "banned-weapons" list, and a set of reporting procedures and punitive policies. Your company might even have gone so far as to have included training sessions on topics like interpersonal-communications, reporting abusive, harassing, or threatening actions, etc. Unfortunately, you might even work for a company who doesn't even have that much.

My job, and YOURS, is to make sure that you can survive when that policy fails. When, in the reality of the moment, your company's workplace violence policy is seen for what it really is:

A lot of ink on a stack of paper.

But, unless you've taken matters into your own hands already. Unless you're a black belt martial artist, former police or military professional, or been training in self-defense for a while, you're still not prepared to deal with the operative word in workplace violence. And that word is:

"VIOLENCE!"

The very random nature of violence means that you never know WHEN, HOW, or WHY violence will strike. Even highly paid, highly trained experts can't tell you that. And, if an assailant really wants to unleash hell where you happen to be, no amount of security, deterrence, or written policy is going to stop the act from occurring.

And, while the prevention and deterrence training taught by 98% of the workplace violence consultants out there is necessary and a good starting point. The only think that will allow you to actually survive a catastrophic workplace violence assault on your facility - on YOU... is a plan and the necessary training in the skills that work.

Once you have that training, you'll know what to say when someone asks you, "what would you, should you, or could you do?"

I know that the first thing to get cut during these stressful times is your company's training budget. I also know that the first thing to go up during these scary times is the level of anger, stress, and hostility. As we've seen just in the past few months, the amount of violence, and the number of catastrophic workplace violence attacks can't be ignored. They've also shown that no business, no facility, and no job is immune - regardless of where you are in the world.

If you'd like more information about getting the training you need to surviving an explosive incident in your business, call our international office in the US at (570) 988-2228.

Also, don't forget to download your free report, "Attack-Proof Your Facility", which is available on the main website at www.wcinternational.com