Fortis Group | Protective Training Solutions

At Fortis Group, we offer comprehensive and customizable security training programs tailored to the needs of various sectors. Our expert instructors provide hands-on, in-depth training to equip individuals and teams with the skills necessary to manage security challenges effectively. Whether you’re in law enforcement, healthcare, or personal preparedness, our training programs are designed to prepare your team for real-world scenarios.

Specialized Training Areas

Our customized training services cover the following areas:

• Law Enforcement: Specialized training programs focused on tactical, legal, and crisis response skills. These programs are designed to enhance the operational effectiveness of law enforcement personnel in high-pressure situations.
• Security: Offering expertise in protecting facilities, assets, and personnel. Our security training programs ensure that professionals are equipped with the knowledge needed for proactive security measures, threat detection, and emergency response.
• Workforce: Empowering employees with vital safety skills, conflict resolution techniques, and emergency response protocols. This training ensures a safer work environment and prepares employees to handle unforeseen security challenges.
• Personal Preparedness: Designed for individuals, this program equips participants with tools to stay safe in various emergency situations, from personal safety tips to first aid and evacuation protocols.
• Faith-Based: Tailored programs for churches and religious organizations, focusing on security measures, threat assessments, emergency preparedness, and creating safe spaces for worshippers.
• Healthcare: This specialized training is designed for healthcare professionals to address the unique security risks in healthcare environments, including medical emergency response, patient safety, and handling workplace threats.

Workforce Courses and Workshops

Through the capabilities of its training services, Fortis can help with employee resilience training to improve confidence and preparedness during a crisis. Any of our dynamic multi-media presentations and hands-on workshops can be tailored by time and content to suit your organizational needs:

• 1st Care Trauma Management: Trauma is one of the leading causes of death in the workplace. Life-threatening emergencies can happen fast, and emergency responders aren’t always nearby. With the proper equipment, employees may be able to save a life by taking simple actions immediately. This 3-hour seminar focuses on five essential actions for employees including, moving someone away from ongoing danger, positioning the injured so they can breathe, stopping life-threatening bleeding, keeping them warm, and providing comfort.
• Workplace Violence Prevention: Fortis Group has helped dozens of businesses mitigate their odds of workplace violence by educating employees on how to identify, report and successfully manage these volatile situations. This 2-hour workshop is designed to be delivered to all employees in an efficient, yet informative format. Discussion topics involve prevention, risk reduction, threat management, workplace relations, and liability reduction.
• Active Shooter Preparedness: Given today’s ever-changing threat environment, preparing for and training employees to cope with workplace violence should be a key piece of an organization’s incident response planning. Using a simple training approach this 2-hour workshop helps companies better prepare their employees, regardless of industry, on how to respond in the event of an active assailant arriving on-site. Topics include a general overview and types of active shooter events, active shooter profiles, individual survival guidance, planning, policy, training, and physical security enhancements, and trauma equipment considerations. This presentation will be found useful by all participants regardless of industry path.
• Workplace Security Awareness: This workshop provides guidance to individuals and organizations on how to improve security in the workplace. Employees are often the target of threats as well as the organization's first line of defense against them. Threats endanger the confidentiality, integrity, and security of your workplace, as well as your virtual workplace and computer systems. This course presents information on how employees can contribute to organizational security. Upon completing this course, the participant will be able to identify potential risks to security, describe methods to improve workplace security and determine the actions to take in response to a security situation.
• Assault Prevention: This lecture-based course arms employees with information and techniques to help them avoid becoming a victim of assault crimes. This 2-hour lecture-based workshop provides information regarding violent crime and predatory behavior and raises personal safety awareness, avoidance techniques and simple considerations to defend and escape an assault.
• Personal Defense Readiness: The Personal Defense Readiness program will dramatically increase one’s confidence and confrontation management skills utilizing a proven mindset, and fear management strategies. All concepts taught in this 3-hour hands-on workshop can be used by anyone, regardless of age or gender. This is a hands-on self-defense skill practice course.
• Drug Abuse Awareness: Workplace substance abuse affects all businesses, regardless of size or industry. Statistics indicated that 12.3 million American adults who are current illicit drug users, 9.4 million (77 percent) are employed. This two-hour workshop, delivered by a narcotics enforcement expert, explores the social implications of illicit drug use, misuse of prescription drugs related to the cycle of addiction, and how to identify the signs of an employee working while they are under the influence. Policy considerations are also explored.
• Deadly Drugs: Opioids: The opioid crisis is one of the most pressing public health issues plaguing our country today. The epidemic is particularly troublesome in Michigan, as state data show that from 1999-2015, the number of opioid-related deaths increased 13-fold. Delivered by narcotics enforcement experts, this 2-hour workshop addresses the misuse and abuse of opioids, the cycle of opioid addiction and how to manage an overdose event.

Customizable Curricula:

• ✔ Advanced Firearms Training: Offering high-level courses for professionals needing in-depth firearms safety and tactical training, ensuring they are prepared for complex, high-risk situations.
• ✔ Advanced Law Enforcement Training: Expert-led training designed to enhance the capabilities of law enforcement agencies, focusing on critical areas such as tactical operations, crisis management, and specialized response tactics.
• ✔ Scenario-Based Training: Using realistic simulations, this training prepares teams for a variety of emergency and security scenarios, helping them develop fast, effective responses to any situation.
• ✔ Active Shooter Preparedness: Programs focused on preventing, responding to, and recovering from active shooter incidents, providing participants with the skills to minimize harm and react quickly in dangerous environments.
• ✔ Emergency Response Training: Equipping individuals and teams with the knowledge and skills to manage different types of emergencies, from medical situations to natural disasters, ensuring they can act effectively in a crisis.
• ✔ Security Training: A comprehensive security curriculum covering surveillance, threat assessment, risk management, and security operations tailored to the specific needs of various industries and sectors.