Personal Protection
Prevent — Avoid — Escape — Defend
Prevent
Avoid
Escape
Defend
Program Overview
This training focuses on learning when physical tactics are appropriate, your rights to defend yourself, how to keep yourself and others safe, and how to avoid a physical assault. Then, if an assault occurs, how to escape from and defend against such an attack.
Target Audience
Employees at risk of physical assault due to the nature of their work or the environments in which they work.
Issues Addressed That Require a Trained Response
- Environmental situations that could compromise safety
- Unsafe behaviors by others
- Aggressive or violent behaviors
- Physical assault
- Weapon use
Develop the Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities to
- be alert & decisive to keep yourself and others safe
- respond, don’t react when faced with a physical confrontation
- develop a safety mindset
- recognize when verbal methods have failed and it is necessary to take further action
- use distance, positioning, and movement to avoid physical assault
- sound alert and create alarm when faced with danger
- avoid, escape from, and defend against physical assaults
- prevent re-attack following a physical assault
- win the physical, psychological, and legal battle of a physical assault
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