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How to Protect Your Body During a Slip, Trip or Fall Physical Security

Considera ons for Open Storage Areas

What's the Difference Between a Watch and a Warning?

Threat ‐ Step Two of the OPSEC Process

 Ac ons to Take During an Ac ve Shooter Incident

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How to Protect Your Body During a Slip, Trip or Fall

During FY 2017, slips, trips, and falls constituted more than 30% of the accidents amongst HQDA employees. Although these accidents are preventable, invariably, they happen. It is therefore helpful to know how to protect your body if you slip, trip or fall.

Protect your head. It is the most important body part that you need to protect. Head injuries can be very serious, even deadly. Make sure you prioritize protecting your head as you fall through proper positioning: 1) tuck your chin down, and lower your head; 2) if falling down, face first, turn your head to the side, and; 3) bring your arms up to head level for additional protection; put them in front of your head if falling forwards or behind your head if falling backwards. Turn as you fall. If you are falling either straight forward or straight

backwards, try to turn your body so you land on your side. Falling directly on your back can cause a serious back injury. A frontal fall can cause damage to the head, face, and arms. By landing on your side you can reduce the chance of injury from high distances.

Keep arms and legs bent. It may be tempting to try and catch yourself with your arms as you fall. However, landing with your arms straight out and absorbing the full force of the fall with your arms can cause injury such as broken wrists and arms. Try keeping both arms and legs slightly bent as you fall.

Stay loose. Tensing up during a fall can increase the chances of sustaining an injury. The tension in your body will not allow for the absorption of force from the fall. Instead of spreading the impact over a flexible body, the parts that were kept taught are more likely to break instead of flowing with the motion. Also, try breathing out as you fall to help keep your body relaxed.

Be aware of medications that may affect your balance. Some medications can cause dizziness or drowsiness, which could increase your chances of a fall. Talk to your doctor about your medications (sometimes the interaction of several medications may lead to these side effects). Your doctor may change your prescription.

Direct safety questions to your organization safety POC or Mr. Donald Green, Chief,

Physical Security Considerations for Open Storage Areas

Open storage areas are designated rooms or areas constructed and operated for the purpose of safeguarding classified information that, because of its size or nature, or operational necessity, cannot be adequately protected by the normal safeguards or stored during nonworking hours in approved containers. Open storage areas should only be approved for operational reasons and not as a convenience.

Construction and accreditation of a collateral-level, open-storage facility should only be considered when the volume or bulk of classified material, or the functions associated with processing the classified material, make the use of GSA-approved security containers impractical.

All classified material must be stored in a secure room, a GSA-approved storage container, such as a cabinet, safe, or a vault, or a sensitive compartmented information facility (SCIF).

Construction requirements are:

- All perimeter walls must be of permanent construction and extend to the true ceiling. - Doors must be constructed of solid wood or metal.

- Ceiling must be of permanent construction.

- Windows with openings that are less than 18 feet from any access points must be protected from forced entry.

- Other openings (air vents, ducts, pipes, etc.) in excess of 96 square inches must be secured with metal bars with a maximum space of 6 inches.

In some situations, a secure room or GSA-approved container is enough on its own to protect classified material. However, in other situations, additional controls are necessary to further

safeguard the container or facility. These additional controls, are known as "supplemental controls.” In addition to the baseline level of protection afforded by locks, labels and forms, additional security measures may be required. Some of the supplemental controls include the following:

- Cleared guards or duty personnel providing continuous or periodic monitoring.

- Intrusion detection systems (IDS) which are electronic systems designed to detect and transmit in-formation about unauthorized access to a secured area.

- Acoustical protection for areas where classified discussions take place. - Security-in-depth, which integrates various complementary layers of security.

When severe weather approaches, several alerts may be issued to inform you of the impending threats. There is a distinct difference between a “Watch” and a “Warning”, and knowing the difference can save your life. So let's review!

A watch is issued if weather conditions are favorable for the event to occur. For example, a severe thunderstorm watch will be issued if severe storms could produce 1 inch hail and/or 58 mph or stronger winds. Similarly, a

tornado watch is issued if the environment is conducive for rotation and

severe thunderstorms may be capable of producing tornadoes. If a watch of any kind is issued, be prepared! It does not mean that the threat is imminent, but it does mean that the threat may develop. Review your severe weather action plan and continue to monitor the radio to keep up to date on the current weather situation.

A warning on the other hand should be taken more seriously and citizens

MUST take action. This means the threat is imminent or happening at

that current moment. A severe thunderstorm warning is issued when a storm is capable of producing 1 inch hail and/or 58 mph or stronger winds. At this point, you should find shelter and wait for the storm to pass. Mean-while, a tornado warning means life - threatening conditions exist and you must take cover immediately! Find your safe place if your house is within the warning area. That should be a basement or the lowest and

most interior room of the house. Keep a weather radio and your cell phone with you so you can receive updates on when the threat is over and you can get out of your safe place.

For more information regarding tornado watch vs. warning see:

https://www.accuweather.com/en/weather-news/the-difference-between-tornado-1/61817

Direct questions regarding weather watches vs. warnings to Mr. Scott Davis, Directorate of Mission

Assurance, Emergency Management, at (703) 545-2247, or email at [email protected]. 

What’s the Difference Between a Watch and a Warning?

Conditions are favorable for severe weather. Prepare and stay

weather aware

WARNING

Severe weather is occurring or imminent. Take action now!

Who is the threat to your organization’s critical information or operations? How do you find out who the threat is to your organization? Who is the threat to your family’s information and peace of mind? You can certainly get threat information from security, antiterrorism or force protection personnel, or your

local law enforcement or intelligence agencies.

In Operations Security (OPSEC), the adversary is anyone with the intent plus the capability to cause harm or danger. An adversary can be an individual, group, organization, or government. Threats can be tradi-tional such as insider threat, nation state, or foreign adversaries. Threats can also be non-traditradi-tional, e.g., terrorists, criminals, and cyber threats. According to the Army OPSEC Support Element (OSE), OPSEC deals with the adversary intelligence collection threat while traditional security handles the physical threat. What is a threat? According to Army Regulation 530-1, a threat is the capability of a potential adversary to limit or negate mission accomplishment or to neutralize or reduce the effectiveness of a current or projected organization or material item. Two types of threat information are sought: intelligence collection threat (efforts by an adversary to gain information) and combat capability threat (adversary forces’ weapons systems that the U.S. Army will face on the battlefield).

Knowing the threat and practicing good OPSEC can help prevent an adversary from getting our critical information. One practice measure is denying or reducing our organization and family’s indicators. “Indicators are observable actions or friendly detectable actions and open source information that can be pieced together or interpreted to derive critical information” (Army OSE).

This is a friendly reminder from your HQDA OPSEC Program Manager, and I can be reached at e-mail

[email protected] or call 703-545-2273.

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the appropriate actions below

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Action 1: RUN. If you are watchful and vigilant, evacuate to the nearest possible exit away from the active

shooter and call 911 as soon as you are safe from the incident. Be alert to help others escape and prevent individuals (not law enforcement) from heading towards the active shooter. If law enforcement arrives, keep your hands visible at all times and follow instructions.

Action 2: HIDE. If you cannot safely escape, hide in a concealed place with a door or out of sight from an

active shooter. Lock office or room doors, barricade with heavy furniture or equipment, and silence your mobile devices or any noise source. If you need to get out of the sight of an active shooter, hide behind large items or spaces out of view and remain quiet. Run at the first opportunity or fight, if necessary, for your life. Dial 911 at your earliest convenience when you are safe from the active shooter.

Action 3: FIGHT. I f you cannot hide or run, then you must take decisive action against the active shooter.

You must incapacitate and stop the active shooter. Take aggressive actions to save your life and the life of others. Only fight as a last resort and use whatever force necessary, whether improvising weapons, using chairs or trashcans, or anything you can to neutralize the active shooter. When you know you are safe, call local law enforcement or 911 as soon as possible.

Please watch the three minute video at https://www.milsuite.mil/video/20132. Use your CAC to access the

HQDA Active Shooter Response video.

For information about this article, please contact Dennis Manzie [email protected] or call (703)

545-2273.

Actions to Take During an Active Shooter Incident