Staging a Trauma Kit in Your Office
Rob PincusWhen making defensive plans to respond to a critical incident in your office, Rob Pincus recommends having a trauma kit at hand. Two main points: A trauma kit does not contain band aids and ibuprofen. It contains gear for treating life-threatening injuries and should include a tourniquet, chest seals, and pressure dressings. Second: Leave the trauma kit, which should have a big red cross on it, out in the open in your office, not in a cabinet. This is a simple way to get other staff thinking about office defense, and any of them can quickly grab it in an emergency, instead of rifling through drawers and cabinets.
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Another thing that you'll see that I have in here is a medical kit. Now in this case, the medical kit is hidden. Um, this is a trauma kit. This is not uh boo boos and band-aids. It's not that kind of stuff.
Um, this has the the tourniquet, the pressure dressing, the chest seals, things like that that we want in a real trauma emergency when someone's been shot, stabbed, otherwise have a life threatening immediate situation where we need to control blood, maybe allow the airflow to continue the proper way through the nose and mouth and not through new holes in the torso. But I will tell you that while laying a firearm on the table isn't something we would generally recommend, putting a medical kit like this out in the open might be just a very simple way to get other people in your workplace thinking about office defense, thinking about the fact that yes yes it could happen to you, it could happen in your place. Um, the other thing I'll tell you is that if there's a big red cross on it and it's mine. It's 99% not gonna have band-aids. It's not gonna have ibuprofen.
It's not gonna have a CPR mask. It's this is trauma medicine so that if someone's running around, if I'm not in my office and they know that I've gotten hurt or somebody else has gotten hurt out in a common space and they see this, they're gonna recognize this is a medical equipment symbol they're gonna grab it, they're gonna go to where it's needed and what they're not gonna find is. 4 by 4 gauze pads when somebody really needs a tourniquet or a chest seal, um, packing gauze, things like that. So, um, if you're gonna keep this out in the open, I, I highly recommend that this is a trauma kit so that people show up with it. Um, you don't have your, your boo boos and sickness bag as I like to call it, you know that can say first aid on it that can maybe say, uh, you know, boo boos and sickness is what I really have written on the one that I carry around in my my tour truck.
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