You are sitting at work, just a normal day when you hear a confrontation in the office. There is yelling and screaming and all of a sudden there is a string of gunshots… “Shots fired” what do you do? There is a company out there that is trying to make it so that people can prevent these situations from becoming bigger then they need to be, and hopefully from ever happening.

With our world as it is today there are so many contributing factors as to why our students, and why common man, can snap at anything. There are so many things that happen in our daily lives, so many stresses, that can turn a person into a malicious mob. Yesterday in the United Press international, I found this article on “Violence Prevention Training” and thought that it would be a good blog to post.

The Washington-based Center for Personal Safety and Protection is urging university and corporate security officials to take action against violence.

As the anniversary of the Virginia Tech University shootings approaches, the Center for Personal Safety and Protection is calling on security officials in academe and in corporate environments to take preventative measures to safeguard against violence. Virginia Tech student Seung-Hui Cho killed 32 people on April 16, 2007, the worst school shooting in U.S. history.

Center for Personal Safety and Protection officials say workplace violence costs employers $36 billion while affecting millions of Americans each year. The organization announced its training program, Shots Fired, is an effort to provide guidance for employees and students on handling an incident similar to what happened at Virginia Tech or more recently at Northern Illinois.

“Colleges and universities have spent a great deal of time and money since Virginia Tech and Northern Illinois in trying to make their campuses safer,” Allen Bova, Cornell University director of risk management, said in a statement. “Showing the Shots Fired video to our employees is one of the best things we can do. Every employee that has viewed it says there should be mandatory viewing for every student, staff member and faculty member.”

This article was very interesting to me, so I wanted to research it further and find out more about the shots fired video. I did my research and found that it is done by a company called OPSGEAR that is out of Salt lake city, Utah. I found a trailer for the video “Shots Fired” and wanted to show it here on the blog. The full video can purchased for $17.99 off of the OPSGEAR website.