Downloadable field guides, scenario workbooks, long-form safety articles, and self-assessments you can actually use at a safety meeting, at home, or with your team.
Our strongest free tools: an interactive lesson, practical planning guides, and quick-reference emergency material.
Five harder scenarios across medical, conflict, post-storm, roadside, and self-defense situations.
Take the lesson →A five-part model plus a 15-minute team exercise.
Use the guide →Learn the decision loop, then run it again as conditions change.
Explore GUARD™ →Before-season, 72-hour, shutdown, and safe-reopening planning.
Open guide →Recognition, urgency, skill boundaries, and training priorities.
Read guide →Cardiac-emergency field guide with readiness audit and tabletop scenario.
Download PDF Read online →A complete free preparedness guide you can use now—CO, generators, power, floodwater, heat, medical disruption, cleanup, and household planning. Use it to strengthen your household or workplace plan before the next storm.
Download PDF Read online →Eight sections, three scenarios, and a team resource-mapping exercise.
Download PDF Read online →Scored assessment, driver/violence/medical readiness review, and 30-day improvement plan.
Download PDF Use online assessment →Recognition, preparation, training evidence, a workplace checklist, and a tabletop scenario.
Read full article →The response gap across cardiac arrest, active threat incidents, remote incidents, and disasters - and where GUARD fits.
Read full article →These resources are meant to be useful on their own: detailed articles, an interactive GUARD™ lesson, and practical planning material that complements the downloadable field guides and workbooks.
Apply GUARD™ to a medical emergency, workplace problem, post-storm hazard, escalating conflict, and travel/roadside situation.
Start interactive lesson →Named roles, two-way communication, assembly, scheduled review, and actual practice.
Read article →A fuller explanation of Gauge, Use Your Resources, Act, Recover, and Depart & Dial.
Read article →What to handle before the season, 72 hours out, and before reopening after the storm.
Read article →Recognition, why minutes matter, and why physical bleeding-control skills need hands-on practice.
Read article →What cardiac arrest, active threat incidents, remote incidents, and disasters have in common.
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