They will be experiencing a list of physiological and cognitive effects that will reduce their ability to think critically. On top of that, it will be the most stressful moment of their life. If it does happen, they will have seconds to respond. We train people how to respond to an event that will probably never happen. It sounds cheesy, but that is what Fortress does. Professionally, what matters most is protecting people and saving lives. Give your employees information that is unique to their environment. If you really want to prepare your workforce, a general run – hide – fight class is not enough. From these assessments, we design site-specific information. With corporate clients, we conduct security assessments that focus on access control, emergency notification, and the development of response options. The exercise usually takes place on a weekend when the building is quiet.įortress also offers training in suspicious package response, stop the bleed training, de-escalation and personal safety. The final step is the scenario-based training exercise. Skills training that lets everyone practice completing the important tasks in a stress-free environment. Incident management training teaches leaders a flexible system that lets them keep track of what key tasks have been achieved. Foundational classroom training that covers the response actions that need to be taken. When working with facilities, we have several layers of training. You can’t have a cookie cutter-type program for this type of training. All of our training is specific to the client. What should we know about Fortress Consulting, LLC?įortress Consulting has the most comprehensive active assailant/workplace violence prevention and response training program in the country. It was a challenge, but we survived.Īppreciate you sharing that. During the quarantine, our customers were gone. Our target market is Class A property management and security teams the midsized companies in their buildings. In every new market that we enter it is a challenge to get buy-in to this type of training. With Fortress, we conduct scenario-based exercises using actors playing the part of the witnesses, expert instructors and an off-duty police officer.īefore Fortress, active assailant scenario-based exercises were unheard of. Tabletop exercises have their place, but that is not where you learn how to respond to an emergency. When most facilities and companies think of this type of training, they think of tabletop-type exercises. I don’t think that any successful company has a smooth road, there are always challenges. Looking back would you say it’s been easy or smooth in retrospect? Today we work with facility teams and mid-sized companies throughout the US.Ĭan you talk to us a bit about the challenges and lessons you’ve learned along the way. We initially started working just with Class A high-rise buildings in Atlanta. With Karla, we formed Fortress Consulting. My other partner retired Atlanta Fire Fighter Brock Ryan, and I saw the need for active assailant response training in the Class A high-rise sector. Karla Baldini started the active shooter response training program for the department (She deserves all of the credit).įast forward to 2012, there was a workplace shooting in midtown where one person was killed, one was wounded and a third was shot. In 2008 one of my business partners, Capt. I have been a police officer since 1992 and was a full-time member of the SWAT team of the largest police in Georgia from 2002 – 2017. To start, maybe you can tell our readers some of your backstory. Hi Paul, thanks for sharing your story with us. Today we’d like to introduce you to Paul Merritt.
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