In an emergency, being able to deliver a message quickly and clearly to your personnel and visitors can prevent injuries and save lives. Use the following checklist to evaluate and improve your onsite notification system. Use the following checklist to evaluate and improve your onsite notification system.
A disorganized evacuation can result in confusion, injury, and property damage. Use the following checklist to help evaluate your next evacuation or shelter exercise.
This video highlights the importance of making safety part of an organization’s work-culture. Conduct regular (at least annual) inspections but also alert and empower employees to being proactive when it comes to safety.
This document will guide you through the facilitation of a response drill. It presents a disaster scenario, discussion topics, and steps for completing the documentation and conducting a debrief. The Active Shooter Quick Drill includes considerations unique to conducting a live drill (functional exercise) for an active shooter scenario.
All members of your organization must be trained on how to prevent and, if necessary, respond to an active shooter. The Red Cross has prepared a Sample Active Shooter Training Presentation to help you educate members of your organization on how to recognize signs of potential violent behavior, react during an active shooter situation, and render aid.
Active shooter incidents are unpredictable and devastating. Learn how you, as a leader, can take steps to prepare the people in your organization using materials prepared by the American Red Cross based on widely accepted best practices supported by the FBI, DHS, and FEMA.
Support training efforts and build awareness by publicizing the actions to take if confronted by an active shooter. To assist you, the Red Cross has created the Active Shooter Informational Poster containing critical information on responding in an active shooter event. The poster can be hung in a breakroom, workspace, or other suitable area in your facility.
Help keep your family safe in severe weather, man made/natural hazards with Emergency by the American Red Cross. Monitor conditions in your area or area of loved ones, prepare your family and your home, check to see if loved ones are safe and let them know you’re safe. - A must have for anyone who live in areas prone to severe weather or have loved ones that do.
Each year, the American and Canadian Red Cross Societies train emergency response volunteers on how to provide shelter and care for those displaced during disaster and other emergencies. One way your organization or business can contribute is by offering your facility as a Red Cross shelter. One way to contribute to this effort is by offering your facility as a Red Cross shelter.
The Red Cross has been organizing the safe collection and distribution of blood and related products for many decades. This service is of vital importance to health care providers across the nation and around the world
