In collaboration with IMReady, LBCC hosted a Zoom meeting on how to survive an active assailant incident on Thursday.
IMReady is a company that specializes in emergency planning by hosting safety trainings designed to provide everyone with the skills needed to respond to numerous potential safety issues.
“The most important thing is that we care about it, we are not only just saying it, but we are putting into practice, policies, training, dialogues,” said Chip Raymond West from Business Support Services of LBCC.
LBCC wants to ensure the general safety of students, staff and faculty in the college and the community
“We are a college that is running 24 hours a day, seven days a week so we need to make sure we are providing safety and support 24 hours a day, seven days a week,” said Dr. West.
The training demonstrated videos of real life past events where an active assailant incident was occurring and explained and broke down the strategies and tactics one can do if ever in that situation.
The national best practice is run, hide, fight which is the main strategy needed to remember and learn when it comes to an active assailant incident.
First, if able, run from the scene as fast as possible or hide if there is no way of fleeing the scene. Hide quietly anywhere possible in order to avoid contact with the assailant. Lastly, if both of those options are not attainable, fight back as much as needed to survive or escape.
“I promise you if you forget everything that you learned today in this lecture. The one thing that you will never forget is to run, hide, fight,” said IMReady Senior Loss Control Advisor Eric Olson.
Every semester, the college will be hosting three major safety related issue training sessions to help train students and staff on how to be prepared. The trainings will be held on Zoom and everyone is welcomed to attend and are recommended to.
The school is working on ensuring campus safety by making changes to hardware and adding safety items to campus.
West discusses those changes, “Some of the changes that we can look forward to seeing are; the security cameras being upgraded to make sure that they are working and are fully functional, upgrading the phone systems to be able to track the precise and accurate position where someone is calling during an emergency, as well as adding safety materials around the campus such as boxes with first aid kits, fire extinguishers, and plenty of trainings to staff, students and faculty.”
The ultimate goal of these training sessions is to ensure that as a college and community we work together on practicing safety for one another and make everyone aware of the resources available here at LBCC.
To attend all future safety training sessions, students can visit https://www.lbcc.edu/police-campus-safety where all resources are listed.