MT75 – Active Armed Offender Response
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Who Should Enrol
- Frontline retail and hospitality workers
- Healthcare and community service workers
- School and education staff
- Security and facilities management personnel
- Office-based and corporate employees
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Evidence‑Based Content
• Safe Work Australia (Model WHS Act and Regulations) — informs the duty of care obligations on workers and persons conducting a business or undertaking (PCBUs) to manage the risk of workplace violence, including armed offender scenarios.
• Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (Privacy Act and APPs) — informs how personal information gathered during incident reporting and emergency response must be handled lawfully and with care.
• Fair Work Ombudsman (National Employment Standards) — informs worker entitlements and protections relevant to trauma recovery, leave, and workplace obligations following a critical incident.
Course overview
Active armed offender incidents are rare, but they do happen in Australian workplaces. When they do, the seconds immediately after an incident begins matter most. Having a clear, practised response can mean the difference between safety and serious harm. Australian workplace health and safety law places a duty on both employers and workers to take reasonable steps to protect people from foreseeable risks — and armed offender scenarios fall within that scope.
This microcourse is for any worker, in any industry, who wants to understand what to do if an armed offender enters their workplace. In 15 minutes you will learn the core response framework used in Australian settings, how to recognise warning signs, when and how to communicate with authorities, and your obligations under relevant WHS legislation.
This course does not cover every scenario. It gives you a grounded, practical starting point — clear thinking when it matters most.
This microcourse is for any worker, in any industry, who wants to understand what to do if an armed offender enters their workplace. In 15 minutes you will learn the core response framework used in Australian settings, how to recognise warning signs, when and how to communicate with authorities, and your obligations under relevant WHS legislation.
This course does not cover every scenario. It gives you a grounded, practical starting point — clear thinking when it matters most.
Certification included
On successful completion of this microcourse you will receive a digital Statement of Completion from Integrity Academy. This is a non-accredited professional development microcourse and does not lead to nationally recognised qualification or units of competency. It is designed to support continuing professional development, induction, and ongoing compliance training in your workplace.
What's included in this microcourse
In 15 focused minutes, you get the core knowledge, applied scenarios, and a compliance check that helps you respond with clarity.
The Australian Armed Offender Response Framework
Learn the nationally recognised response principles used in Australian workplaces — including the run, hide, communicate approach — and when each applies to your specific setting.
Recognising Warning Signs and Escalation
Understand the behavioural indicators that may precede a violent incident and how to report concerns through your workplace's threat assessment process.
Your WHS Obligations During an Incident
Explore what Australian WHS legislation requires of you as a worker during a violent or threatening event, and what your PCBU is required to have in place to support you.
Communicating with Emergency Services
Practise the key information you need to relay to Triple Zero (000) calmly and accurately, and understand what happens once police take control of the scene.
After the Incident — Trauma and Recovery
Learn about your rights to psychological support and leave following a critical incident, and how your employer's duty of care extends into the recovery period.
Meet the instructor
Brinda Rowe (RN)
Brinda Rowe is the founder and CEO of Integrity RTO Solutions and Integrity Academy, with over two decades of experience in vocational education, compliance and workforce capability across health, aged care, disability and community services in Australia.
A registered nurse, qualified VET practitioner and ASQA-experienced RTO leader, Brinda has built her professional reputation on translating complex legislation, standards and reform into practical learning that frontline workers can apply on the next shift. Her work spans the design of nationally accredited qualifications, the development of evidence-based microlearning and the operational leadership of a Queensland-based RTO (RTO 46406).
Brinda is passionate about culturally safe, trauma-aware and First Nations-informed practice, and brings every Integrity Academy course to life with the clarity, warmth and rigour that has become her signature. Every microcourse you take is built on her belief that great compliance training should respect your time, sharpen your judgement and never insult your intelligence.
A registered nurse, qualified VET practitioner and ASQA-experienced RTO leader, Brinda has built her professional reputation on translating complex legislation, standards and reform into practical learning that frontline workers can apply on the next shift. Her work spans the design of nationally accredited qualifications, the development of evidence-based microlearning and the operational leadership of a Queensland-based RTO (RTO 46406).
Brinda is passionate about culturally safe, trauma-aware and First Nations-informed practice, and brings every Integrity Academy course to life with the clarity, warmth and rigour that has become her signature. Every microcourse you take is built on her belief that great compliance training should respect your time, sharpen your judgement and never insult your intelligence.
Integrity Academy courses are non-accredited and include certificates of completion only.
Nationally recognised training is available through Integrity RTO Solutions (RTO 46406).
Integrity Academy delivers non-accredited professional learning only. Courses are designed to support professional development and workplace capability and do not replace organisational policies, supervision, or formal qualifications.
