Do you want to be prepared in an emergency situation? Imagine you come face-to-face with a threat. Your choices are to surrender or fight. You are either armed or are not. You might react out of fear by fighting, fleeing, or freezing. Understanding yourself and your reactions is critical when it comes to an emergency.…
Alert Protection Services (APS) helps you keep your people safe in an emergency threat, whether that is your business, church, or school by quicker response times from first responders. What can make your business, church, or school environment safer? By not preparing for an emergency, you are putting the lives of your people at risk…
3 Ways to Protect Your Church It’s Sunday. You’re sitting in church. It’s a beautiful morning. The sun is shining through stained-glass windows. Birds are chirping. You smile at those around you. You turn toward the person behind you and something catches your eye. The door is flung open. Someone dressed in all-black rushes in,…
Uh-oh. It’s that dreaded time again: revisiting your safety procedures. As an owner or leader of your business, you know it’s important to keep your people safe but danger can feel so distant. It seems like an active shooter threat will never happen to your place of business. But… if you’re honest with yourself, you…
Imagine the aftermath. It was another school shooting. The worst part is that lives were lost and amidst the chaos, you didn’t have a safety plan. Now, this sounds extreme, and it is, but it’s the reality of the world we live in. Could you have prevented this tragedy? This is why you should make…
Do you wonder about disasters that have happened and if they could’ve been prevented? Or, imagine what it was like if those disasters didn’t have to end in death? We have a plan to change that. It’s called preparing for emergencies, and here are steps to take in an emergency. Prepare Preparation is key. That…
No one likes to be caught unprepared, especially in an emergency situation such as an active shooter. Not knowing what to do in an active shooter emergency can affect not only your life but those around you. With a plan in place and the right tools, you can be prepared and save the lives of…
These 5 ways to increase safety at your school are very timely after yet another school shooting. As staff and students who spend the majority of their week in a school building now is the time to increase school safety. Educators and the children we place in their care deserve to learn and grow without…
How often do you hear about violence in the workplace or schools? Too often is the answer. No matter how distasteful this behavior is, we have to recognize that it’s become a part of our modern society, and we need to be prepared for it. There are a few ways that we can be ready…
Sandy Hook. Columbine. Virginia Tech. Stoneman Douglas High School. These names are seared into our subconsciousness. They were supposed to be places of learning, friendship, and fun, not settings for darkness and death. But, tragically, such incidents have become all too common. Hardly a week goes by when the news doesn’t carry a report of…