AVADE® Personal Safety Student Guide

IT SEEMS TO MOST THAT SOCIETY IS NOT GETTING ANY SAFER. Crime and violence seem to be increasing daily and YOU need strategies to prevent and mitigate the risk of violence in the workplace and in your life place.

In this book you will learn how to:

• Identify escalating risk factors
• Understand trauma informed care
• Recognize emergent situations before they turn violent
• Communicate and de-escalate effectively with upset individuals
• Deal with an agitated or dangerous individual
• Escape and survive a workplace violence incident
• Respond appropriately to a threatening situation
• Use the art-of-distraction to give you time to escape danger
• Manage stressful situations in the workplace environment
• Create life-place and workplace personal safety habits
• Survive an active shooter situation