Office Defense, Chapter 2: Improvised Office Defensive Tools

In this video we're gonna talk about improvised defensive tools that you can have staged in an office setting, maybe even a classroom setting that aren't gonna cause any undue alarm and probably aren't gonna violate any policies that you may have in place. Now this may be in addition to regular defensive tools, firearms for example, that you have staged in your office, or instead of should you not have a firearm. Choose not to have a firearm or not be allowed to have a firearm in your workplace. So first we're gonna talk about some of the obvious things, right? We talk about anything you can use in your hand to help you increase damage that you would apply to a bad guy through force, something even like the edge of your phone, putting your thumb behind it, smashing this phone into the temple, into the throat, into the eye socket.

Obviously this can cause damage and this can cause a lot. More damage than just smashing your fist against somebody's head. So those types of improvised tools that you could have in any public space or any part of your home in your vehicle, obviously all of those apply as well. But there's some things that can very easily be staged in a space like this that really look like they belong there for maybe other purposes, and they do serve other purposes, something like this pen pencil holder. We've got sharp pencils can be used obviously as a tool.

Uh, screwdriver, particularly a very thin small Phillips head screwdriver, can be um a puncturing device, um, a multi-tool with a locking blade, maybe as a defensive tool if you aren't allowed to carry a regular defensive knife, and of course. Scissors can be used as a puncture tool also maybe a little bit as a slashing tool, but especially in close quarters defense as a puncturing tool, and all of these can be well within arm's reach, you know, staged right on your desk. We start looking at the bigger picture of an office space, um, one thing that we can think about doing. Is having sports equipment now if sports equipment fits into your lifestyle, it's even easier, right? Maybe for you it's gonna be a golf club or a tennis racket, hockey stick, whatever it may be, um, but the baseball bat, um, wooden aluminum, either way is obviously going to be a tool that you can use to impact someone but also a.

That you can use to create space you could also use it to affect somebody's hand or arm or a firearm as it was coming through a doorway. If you were staged in the right position as they come through that doorway, you'd be able to knock the gun away, be able to impact the forearm, impact the hands, or of course impact the head, and maybe take someone right out of the fight or. Defeat their ability to use a firearm or other defensive attack tool. I would say in that case an attack tool a weapon against you, a knife, something like that. So staging sports equipment works really well also, um, maybe sports equipment doesn't fit, but you've got some kind of a a medal award, uh, maybe it's just a a souvenir rock that has something written on it, uh, maybe a rock that one of your kids painted or that you painted and you just tell people your kids painted it.

um, you don't need to have kids to have something. Heavy staged on a bookshelf or on a desk and obviously this can be an impact tool um this is something that will magnify the force. You could also use it as a as a projectile weapon right I could throw it at somebody as they came through the door as well um just thinking about this ahead of time, especially if you got something like this with some relatively sharp edges that you could attack somebody with, uh, thinking about this ahead of time, you know this is a defensive tool, but to anybody else looks like an award that you, you earned at some point. The other thing that we've talked about before is using a fire extinguisher as a defensive tool in the public space. Now this could be one that you just find if you're in a situation where you had to defend yourself in a public space.

you may obviously see these. They're usually positioned in places in offices and in public settings in stores and malls where people can get to them, but you might have one in your office. Now maybe it's not exactly out in the open it's behind a plant or something like that behind the door, um, not only is this a very heavy, um, often with sharp edges down at the base. impact device you could use to smash at somebody or throw at their head, but also you can use the powder to disable, disorient, um, choke, obviously gets in the eyes, it stings, it makes it very hard for somebody to focus on hurting you. So you could use this as an area denial tool as well, you know, fill the hallway with the dust, um, in this case that's gonna fill that hallway or as someone came around the corner around the door first you blast them, then you smash them with it.

That's a great double tactic you can use with the fire extinguisher. The idea of improvised defensive tools is of course to have a tool in the office, something that you know is there for defensive purposes. You've thought about how to use it you've actually practiced using it maybe you've done some walkthroughs maybe you let some of your other office mates know or you don't in the case of a workplace violence event. Of course it could be someone in the office that is the person trying to hurt you and the other people that you work with, so maybe some of these improvised defensive tools, especially for things that only you are thinking about ahead of time as something you can use in a worst case scenario to protect those that you care about and of course yourself.