1. NEW YORK STATE FARMERS MARKET ASSOCIATION
SAFETY PRESENTATION
03/06/2019

2. Current Climate Terror Plots for Open Air Venues Soft Targets
Poor Planning if any
Inconvenience vs Safety
Liability?????????

3. Situational Awareness
We are a just a Famers Market….
What does this have to do with me?
Why do I need to worry about it?

4. Considerations Market Layout / Design Safety for Vendors
Customers / Public
Food Safety

5. Establish Relationships
Fire
Police
Emergency Management
Public Officials
Have regular planning meetings

6. Develop a Plan Use your partners to help you create a plan
What are the potential threats
What are the potential hazards
Plan should be for “All Hazards”
NYS Mass Gathering Planning Guide

7. Resources NYS Mass Gathering Planning Guide
DHS Run Hide Fight Posters / Video
FEMA web site

8. What to do …… Run Hide Fight Have an escape route and plan in mind
Leave your belongings behind
Keep your hands visible
Hide
Hide in an area out of the shooter’s/ active killers view
Silence your cell phone and/or pager
Fight
As a last resort and only when your life is in imminent danger
Attempt to incapacitate the shooter / active killer
Act with physical aggression and throw items at the shooter

9. What to do…….. Contd.
If this happens…………….
Then I need to …….

10. Don’t reinvent the wheel
Use your partners to the fullest
The Art of Cut and Paste !!!!!!!!!
Take it Seriously
Lose the “it will never happen here” Attitude