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Specialized AVIRT (Active Violence Immediate Response Training) for power plants, substations, utility workers, and energy sector personnel. Military-trained instructors deliver on-site training at your Texas facility — equipping your workforce to protect critical infrastructure and save lives when it matters most.
AVIRT — Active Violence Immediate Response Training — is an HSI-developed program that replaced the older AVERT curriculum in August 2025. Designed for high-stakes industrial environments, AVIRT goes far beyond traditional "Run-Hide-Fight" guidance by training workers to protect both their lives and the critical systems that communities depend on.
For power sector personnel, AVIRT addresses the unique reality that walking away from a control panel or substation during an incident could trigger cascading blackouts affecting hospitals, emergency services, and millions of residents. Our curriculum teaches workers how to balance personal safety with operational continuity — a challenge no generic active shooter program addresses.
Full AVIRT Overview →As of August 27, 2025, HSI officially replaced the AVERT program with AVIRT. If your facility completed AVERT training, it's time to recertify under the updated curriculum.
AVERT (Retired)
Active Violence Emergency Response Training
Narrower scope focused on active shooter events. Reactive "emergency" mindset. Standard classroom delivery.
AVIRT (Current)
Active Violence Immediate Response Training
Broader scope covering all active violence scenarios. Immediate empowerment mindset. Enhanced with current medical and tactical updates.
Action Required: Does your facility have AVERT certifications? They need to be updated. Contact us to schedule AVIRT recertification for your team.
Electric utilities and power generation facilities are federally designated critical infrastructure. Unlike typical workplace violence, attacks on energy infrastructure are designed to cause maximum disruption — making specialized AVIRT training essential, not optional.
Power facilities fall under Presidential Policy Directive 21 as critical infrastructure — making them priority targets for terrorism, sabotage, and coordinated attacks intended to destabilize entire regions through cascading grid failures that standard law enforcement cannot prevent alone.
Many substations and generation facilities operate far from population centers. Law enforcement response times of 20–45 minutes are common in rural Texas. Your workers become first responders by default — and must be trained to respond effectively without immediate outside help.
Unlike covert facilities, power infrastructure locations are publicly mapped and easily identified. Substations sit adjacent to neighborhoods, and plant locations appear on publicly available documents — giving hostile actors reconnaissance advantages that require proactive security countermeasures.
Attacks on key transformers, control rooms, or transmission nodes can trigger regional blackouts affecting hospitals, water treatment, emergency services, and millions of residents. Your staff must understand which assets to protect and how — even during an active violence event.
Most power facilities operate with minimal on-site security. Plant operators, technicians, and maintenance workers are the de facto first line of defense. Without AVIRT training, they have no framework for what to do when violence erupts at a facility managing critical grid infrastructure.
NERC CIP-014 mandates physical security training for utility personnel at critical facilities. FERC and DHS standards are tightening. Facilities without documented active violence training programs face compliance gaps that auditors are increasingly flagging during security reviews.
Generic active shooter training was never designed for power plants, substations, or control rooms. Our AVIRT program is specifically adapted for the industrial environments, operational pressures, and regulatory requirements unique to the energy sector.
Our complete AVIRT power industry program covers every phase of active violence preparedness — from threat detection through post-incident grid stabilization and regulatory reporting.
Identify pre-attack indicators specific to infrastructure targeting: surveillance patterns, perimeter probing, social engineering, and insider threat behaviors. Interpret DHS and FBI sector bulletins relevant to energy sector threats.
Master AVIRT response tactics adapted for power facilities — modified Run-Hide-Fight strategies for industrial settings where evacuating may compromise critical operations and grid stability for millions of customers.
Prioritize protection of transformers, control systems, switchgear, and generation equipment during active incidents — preventing attacker access to components that could trigger cascading regional grid failures.
Establish secure control room protocols — access denial, remote system monitoring, and emergency shutdown procedures — that allow operators to maintain grid stability while sheltering from active threats on facility grounds.
Coordinate responses across sprawling facilities using radio systems, emergency notifications, and backup communication methods. Alert grid operators, law enforcement, and neighboring facilities without triggering system-wide panic.
Facilitate first responder access to complex industrial sites with multiple entry points and hazardous zones. Provide facility layouts, safe approach routes, and attacker location updates while ensuring officer safety around high-voltage equipment.
Deliver life-saving hemorrhage control, trauma care, and triage in remote industrial settings where EMS arrival is significantly delayed. Covers Stop the Bleed techniques, casualty evacuation, and industrial injury first response.
Navigate facility security sweeps, evidence preservation, regulatory reporting to NERC and FERC, media coordination, and grid restoration procedures while maintaining reliability for dependent hospitals, businesses, and residents.
Every power facility presents distinct security challenges. Our AVIRT power industry program addresses the operational and physical characteristics specific to your infrastructure type.
Coal, natural gas, nuclear, and combined-cycle facilities operate with hundreds of workers across vast industrial complexes. These high-value targets require comprehensive active violence preparedness covering every aspect of facility operations.
Remote, unmanned, or lightly-staffed substations represent the most vulnerable points in the electric grid. With extended law enforcement response times and minimal personnel, substation workers need specialized AVIRT protocols adapted for isolated environments.
Control centers and grid operations facilities represent the brain of the electric system. A successful attack on a control center could disable operators' ability to manage the entire grid — making these facilities the highest-priority target for active violence training.
Solar farms, wind energy facilities, and battery storage sites present unique security challenges — vast geographic footprints, sparse staffing, and locations that are often far from emergency services. AVIRT training for renewable sites addresses these specific vulnerabilities.
Our military-trained instructors have delivered AVIRT training to energy sector companies across Texas and surrounding states. Here's what facility managers and safety coordinators say about the program.
Brandon and Travis brought a level of real-world credibility you simply cannot get from a standard safety vendor. Our control room operators finally have a concrete framework for what to do when something goes wrong — and they know it fits our actual facility layout because we trained here.
We needed training that our NERC auditors would accept, and we needed it fast. Safety Is A Mindset delivered on-site across two of our facilities within three weeks. The documentation package they provided made our CIP-014 compliance review straightforward.
I've sat through a lot of generic active shooter presentations over the years. This was completely different. The instructors understood that our operators can't just drop everything and run — and they built protocols around that reality. That's exactly what we needed.
Safety Is A Mindset was founded by Brandon S. Beaver and Travis E. Beaver — a Navy Corpsman, combat veteran, firefighter, and EMT with decades of real-world emergency response experience. When you train with us, you train with people who have actually responded to crises under pressure.
Official authorization to deliver the AVIRT program — the current gold standard for active violence response training.
Travis E. Beaver served as a Navy Corpsman — bringing military medical training and crisis response experience to every session.
Active emergency response experience means our instructors have trained for — and responded to — real crises in demanding environments.
American Heart Association authorized, enabling us to pair AVIRT with CPR/AED certification for complete emergency preparedness.
Certified to deliver OSHA 10 and OSHA 30 training — allowing energy companies to consolidate safety training with a single trusted provider.
We travel to your facility across Texas and surrounding states — no logistics burden, no off-site downtime, training in your actual work environment.
Power companies face an increasingly stringent compliance landscape. AVIRT training from Safety Is A Mindset provides the documentation, curriculum, and certification records needed to satisfy regulatory requirements across multiple federal standards.
CIP-014 requires utilities to identify and protect critical transmission stations and substations. Our AVIRT program provides documented physical security training that satisfies CIP-014 personnel training requirements, including training records, curriculum documentation, and certification evidence for NERC audit submissions.
FERC orders mandate physical security programs for utilities operating critical electric infrastructure. Our training program documentation package includes all materials necessary to demonstrate compliance with FERC security requirements during regulatory reviews and inspections.
The Department of Homeland Security recommends active violence and security awareness training for all critical infrastructure sectors. Our HSI-authorized AVIRT program aligns with DHS guidance and can be referenced in your facility's security plan for all applicable infrastructure protection frameworks.
OSHA's General Duty Clause requires employers to provide a workplace free from recognized hazards, including workplace violence. Active violence training is an increasingly expected component of OSHA compliance programs for high-risk industries — and our documentation supports OSHA audit responses.
The standard AVIRT power industry program is a 4-hour training session that can be conducted as a single half-day module or split into two 2-hour sessions to accommodate shift operations. We offer flexible scheduling including overnight sessions for graveyard shift workers and weekend training to avoid disrupting critical facility operations. For large utilities with multiple facilities, we can conduct multi-day training campaigns with sessions scheduled around maintenance outages and shift rotations.
Yes — on-site training at your actual facility is strongly recommended and how most power companies prefer to train. Conducting AVIRT at your plant, substation, or control center allows workers to practice responses in their real work environment — using your specific evacuation routes, secure shelter locations, and communication systems. We travel to your facility anywhere in Texas and surrounding states at no additional travel fee for most locations. Prior to training, we conduct a facility walkthrough to identify site-specific security considerations and build them into scenario exercises.
Yes. AVIRT training helps power companies meet NERC CIP security training requirements, particularly CIP-014 physical security standards that mandate training for personnel at critical facilities. Our program provides documented training records, certification cards, and comprehensive curriculum materials that demonstrate compliance during NERC audits. We also address FERC security requirements and DHS critical infrastructure protection guidelines. Many utilities incorporate AVIRT into their annual security training programs as part of broader compliance strategies. We provide all documentation necessary for regulatory submissions and audit responses.
AVERT (Active Violence Emergency Response Training) was replaced by AVIRT (Active Violence Immediate Response Training) in August 2025. AVIRT covers a broader scope of active violence scenarios — not just active shooter events — and incorporates enhanced medical and tactical updates. For power companies, AVIRT also includes updated critical infrastructure protection protocols that weren't part of the older AVERT curriculum. If your facility completed AVERT training before August 2025, those certifications need to be updated to the current AVIRT program.
We specifically design training schedules around shift work realities in power facilities. Options include separate sessions for each shift (day, swing, graveyard), scheduling during shift overlaps to maximize attendance without compromising operations, or condensed sessions during planned maintenance outages when more personnel are available simultaneously. We also provide makeup sessions for workers who miss initial training due to vacation, sick leave, or emergency call-outs. Certifications are tracked individually so you always know which team members are current.
Absolutely — we train all facility personnel including security guards, plant operators, control room technicians, maintenance workers, engineers, administrative staff, and contractor personnel. While the core AVIRT principles apply to everyone, we customize scenarios and responsibilities based on job roles. Security personnel receive enhanced threat interception training, operators learn to balance grid stability with personal safety, and maintenance crews understand how to secure vulnerable infrastructure during active incidents. Every participant receives the same foundational certification, with role-specific protocols layered on top.
AVIRT certifications are valid for two years. We recommend annual refresher training for power facility staff due to regulatory requirements and the evolving threat landscape. New employees should receive training during onboarding. Management teams benefit from advanced training covering incident command, grid restoration priorities, regulatory reporting, and media coordination. Many utilities conduct quarterly tabletop exercises between formal recertifications to keep response protocols fresh and address emerging security threats as they develop.
This is precisely why power industry AVIRT training differs from generic programs. We train your staff on decision frameworks that balance personal safety against grid reliability — including protocols for maintaining critical operations from secure locations, remote system monitoring during facility lockdowns, coordinated handoffs between shifts if personnel must evacuate, and emergency procedures to prevent cascading blackouts while responding to active threats. Your staff will understand when abandoning posts is necessary versus when systems can be secured in fail-safe modes that protect both lives and grid infrastructure.
Yes — we regularly conduct training campaigns for utilities with multiple generation plants, substations, and control centers across wide geographic areas. We develop systematic training schedules that rotate through your facilities over weeks or months, ensuring consistent training delivery while minimizing disruption. For utilities operating across Texas and surrounding states (Louisiana, Oklahoma, Arkansas, New Mexico), we coordinate multi-site programs with volume pricing. We also offer train-the-trainer programs for utilities that want internal staff certified to deliver AVIRT refreshers to new hires on an ongoing basis.
Don't leave your critical infrastructure vulnerable. Schedule on-site AVIRT training for your power plant, substation, or utility team — anywhere in Texas and surrounding states.
Learn about the complete Active Violence Immediate Response Training methodology, program structure, and certification details.
Understand the evolution from AVERT to AVIRT and why the new program better equips workers for active violence scenarios.
Similar industrial challenges — heavy equipment, shift work, and critical production systems that cannot simply be abandoned.
Energy sector training for remote facilities, hazardous operations, and critical infrastructure protection in petrochemical environments.
Complement AVIRT with AHA-certified CPR and first aid training — essential when medical response is delayed at remote power facilities.
Comprehensive workplace safety training for power industry supervisors, safety officers, and operations managers.
How AVIRT compares to Run-Hide-Fight, ALICE, and other active violence programs — and why it's the right choice for power facilities.
Brandon S. Beaver and Travis E. Beaver — Navy Corpsman, firefighter, EMT — bringing real-world emergency response expertise to every session.
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