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Hospitals are required by facility security plans, CalOSHA and The Joint Commission to incorporate Workplace Violence planning into their operations. Hospitals coordinate planning with training to maintain a safe workplace for patients, staff and visitors. This includes planning for an armed individual such as an active shooter. Healthcare organizations are increasingly vulnerable as events involving armed individuals and guns are on the rise. Incidents of a violent nature can never be entirely prevented; the challenge is to plan and protect the occupants in a healthcare facility from a threat with potential for significant consequences. The active shooter “Code Silver” event may be over in 10 to 15 minutes, leaving little time to react. The success of the active shooter policy will depend on planning with the appropriate multi-disciplinary response partners. Protecting patients, visitors and staff are key objectives. Life saving options such as lockdown or swarming the perpetrator are not typical to the healthcare emergency preparedness event or training. It is critical to educate staff to respond to these types of events and train staff actions they might take to remain as safe as possible. It is not the intent of this document to address every aspect for planning or responding to an active shooter event. This checklist is intended to assist in the discussion and decision-making process and facilitate the development of plans for an active shooter situation. This checklist is designed to prompt consideration of critical decision-making factors, determine protocols for activation, lockdown or evacuation plans while considering facility risk, safety and community threat assessment reviews of an active shooter scenario. Plan Component Overview Reference/Location Status Document active shooter, “Code Silver” scenario policy and procedure Define scope and applicability Identify activation authorities (immediate) Define activation criteria and decis