# Are you required to do active shooter training for work? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [July 10, 2019, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-required-to-do-active-shooter-training-for-work/836830 "2019-07-10T13:44:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Nars\_Glinley](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nars_glinley/32/8177_2.png) [@Nars\_Glinley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nars_Glinley)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2019, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-required-to-do-active-shooter-training-for-work/836830/1 "2019-07-10T13:44:18Z")
I’m completing my annual safety training and one of the classes is Active Shooter Training and I’m curious how common this is both within and outside of the US. Poll coming. ---
**Author:** ![Slash1972](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slash1972/32/6461_2.png) [@Slash1972](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slash1972)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2019, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-required-to-do-active-shooter-training-for-work/836830/2 "2019-07-10T13:48:00Z")
Active shooter training exists where I work. I don’t go to it. ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2019, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-required-to-do-active-shooter-training-for-work/836830/3 "2019-07-10T13:52:30Z")
I used to work on various Navy bases before I retired - I expect some or most may have such training now. But none of my post-retirement gigs care whether we get shot or not. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![BrotherCadfael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@BrotherCadfael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrotherCadfael)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2019, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-required-to-do-active-shooter-training-for-work/836830/4 "2019-07-10T13:57:10Z")
We have awareness training for it, not role playing or anything of that sort. ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2019, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-required-to-do-active-shooter-training-for-work/836830/5 "2019-07-10T13:59:10Z")
Self-employed with no employees. I haven’t required myself to do any trainings. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2019, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-required-to-do-active-shooter-training-for-work/836830/6 "2019-07-10T14:10:53Z")
Self employed. In case of an active shooter situation it’ll be every person for themselves, I guess. ---
**Author:** ![Hermitian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hermitian/32/470_2.png) [@Hermitian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hermitian)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2019, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-required-to-do-active-shooter-training-for-work/836830/7 "2019-07-10T14:21:12Z")
We had a team building exercise at laser-tag. Does that count? ---
**Author:** ![Miss\_Mapp](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miss_mapp/32/369_2.png) [@Miss\_Mapp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miss_Mapp)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2019, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-required-to-do-active-shooter-training-for-work/836830/8 "2019-07-10T14:26:12Z")
It’s available here, but I haven’t taken it yet. I work in a large federal office building. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2019, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-required-to-do-active-shooter-training-for-work/836830/9 "2019-07-10T14:28:11Z")
School teacher. Every year. ---
**Author:** ![Ravenman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ravenman/32/2929_2.png) [@Ravenman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ravenman)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2019, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-required-to-do-active-shooter-training-for-work/836830/10 "2019-07-10T14:35:34Z")
> [@BrotherCadfael](#): > > We have awareness training for it, not role playing or anything of that sort. Yeah, sort of like this. “The alarm may tell you to go outside, so let’s practice how we go outside. The alarm may tell you to shelter in place, so let’s practice that. Here are a list of scenarios for going outside; here’s a list for shelter in place.” Active shooter is on the shelter in place list. Not sure how this applies to the poll. ---
**Author:** ![kopek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kopek/32/337_2.png) [@kopek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kopek)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2019, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-required-to-do-active-shooter-training-for-work/836830/11 "2019-07-10T15:06:40Z")
Not my current job. I work at a shipping center for THE major internet retailer and while I will be surprised if we don’t have someone go (sorry) postal on our asses our turn-over rate is too high for us peasants to get basic job training let alone something like that. Our former leadership team did have some sort of training but the current crop of bosses are untouchable/immortal ----- or at least they act that way. ---
**Author:** ![Enginerd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/bcef8e/32.png) [@Enginerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enginerd)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2019, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-required-to-do-active-shooter-training-for-work/836830/12 "2019-07-10T15:10:30Z")
Academic research setting. It’s offered every year, but not (yet) required. ---
**Author:** ![bump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7c8e57/32.png) [@bump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bump)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2019, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-required-to-do-active-shooter-training-for-work/836830/13 "2019-07-10T15:10:53Z")
Depends on what you mean by training. We have an optional little video by the police dept. that basically explains the “Run Hide Fight” concept, but beyond that, there’s no actual formal training or anything like that. ---
**Author:** ![Slash1972](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slash1972/32/6461_2.png) [@Slash1972](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slash1972)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2019, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-required-to-do-active-shooter-training-for-work/836830/14 "2019-07-10T15:13:38Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > School teacher. Every year. Do they line you up and shoot you with pellet guns? ---
**Author:** ![MoonMoon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/moonmoon/32/2959_2.png) [@MoonMoon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MoonMoon)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2019, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-required-to-do-active-shooter-training-for-work/836830/15 "2019-07-10T15:14:06Z")
We have a video to watch. It involves things like closing and locking doors, which, in a cube farm, is super reassuring advice. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![glee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b5a626/32.png) [@glee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glee)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2019, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-required-to-do-active-shooter-training-for-work/836830/16 "2019-07-10T15:36:31Z")
Retired teacher in the UK, so no. We don’t need guns in schools here - even the beat police are unarmed. My school did have a shooting range for .22 rifles - but not for defence. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2019, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-required-to-do-active-shooter-training-for-work/836830/17 "2019-07-10T15:40:31Z")
No shooter drills. UK based. We do have the occasional (roughly every six months) “invacuation” exercise in the event that there is a credible bomb threat outside the building, but it’s not really something we worry about much. ---
**Author:** ![carrps](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carrps/32/2957_2.png) [@carrps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carrps)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2019, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-required-to-do-active-shooter-training-for-work/836830/18 "2019-07-10T15:45:04Z")
> [@MoonMoon](#): > > We have a video to watch. It involves things like closing and locking doors, which, in a cube farm, is super reassuring advice. :rolleyes: Yeah, my company, too. And we _had_ an active shooter. Four people killed and two injured. One of the injured was a guy in my work group who got a stray bullet in the leg that went through his cubicle partition. I was off work that day (thank god!), but people told me they were squished into the few meeting rooms that were the only spaces (other than bathrooms) with full height walls and doors. Our shooter was a disgruntled employee with specific people he was targetting, so it could have been worse. ---
**Author:** ![Dickerman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/8baadc/32.png) [@Dickerman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dickerman)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2019, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-required-to-do-active-shooter-training-for-work/836830/19 "2019-07-10T15:46:00Z")
It’s required at my part-time job along with other computer-based training assignments. It was added recently after an incident where a crazy customer made threats. That reminds me… It’s available at my full-time job at a community college, probably optional. ---
**Author:** ![Rough\_Draft](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/76d3ee/32.png) [@Rough\_Draft](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rough_Draft)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2019, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-required-to-do-active-shooter-training-for-work/836830/20 "2019-07-10T16:10:59Z")
Yes, we have numerous types of safety training at work, and every single one of them involves going out to the parking lot and standing around for a half hour. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-required-to-do-active-shooter-training-for-work/836830.md?page=2)