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The holiday season is a great time for your team and leadership to minister uniquely. Help your people remain safe during these unusual times with ideas and tips for security and safety. Help them to give thanks along the way.

Historically, all pandemics surface in multiple "waves" or outbreaks. There are three simple steps your church needs to be doing NOW to be ready for the next wave.

Situational awareness should be applied by everyone, whether in a place of worship, a business, or even at home. Situational awareness is easy to grasp if you break it into three rings. Ring #3 takes us inside your facility and what you should be situationaly aware of.

Situational awareness should be applied by everyone, whether in a place of worship, a business, or even at home. Situational awareness is easy to grasp if you break it into three rings. Ring #2 starts at the outside doors and windows.

You use, or should be using, situational awareness in every area of your life, even where you worship. In this first of three podcasts about situational awareness in places of worship, Robert explores ring #1, the parking lot out to the street. Ring #1 is where it all starts, and where any potential bad situations should stop.

Robert shares information on a subject for planning that almost no church has considered, nor do they have a plan for, and yet it can become a very large concern for both legal and publicity liability after a critical incident. Reunification.Let’s say the critical incident, whatever it is, is now over. What are your plans to get people back together after the critical event, particularly getting the right children to the right adult? How can we make reunification of loved ones work well? Robert will share two principles and three actions you can take now to be ready.

You want to build a strong safety/security team from the beginning, and you want to do it right, but how? In this Safe Zone, Robert shares the top 5 questions you need to start with to either start a team, or expand your present team.

In this episode of Safe Zone, Robert discusses the two types of personality responses to a crisis or emergency. One brings chaos. The other, calm. Which are you? 

This month is a continuation of how to standardize your response to critical incidents using the Standard Response Protocol. Robert will share the final three components of this very simple and easy to teach system for everyone in your facility. 

How do you create a non-complicated, standardized response for your place of worship? In this podcast, we begin to explore that  very question by discussing how to apply the Standard Response Protocol initially developed by the I Love Your Guys Foundation

The world-wide pandemic brought things to a halt, including worshiping in buildings. As we begin to reopen and restart, Robert Hurst shares five important areas a church should consider as they restart their safety and security functions. 

In this "return to work" podcast, Robert shares what changes are coming to the podcast, topics that will be coming, and basically relaunches for the future!0

What do you do when you worked so hard to build, or help build, a good safety and security team and/or environment where you worship and suddenly you realize that everything has crashed! The plan has gone flat. People are dwindling. Others do not fulfill obligations. What now!? It happens to everyone at one time or another, but there are three concise steps you can take to get your team and plan back online quickly.

In the Safe Zone podcast, we share ideas, tips, actions, and options you can implement to make your place of worship safer and more secure. #7 is part 1 of 2 parts on managing risk, insurance, and stopping needless lawsuits against your church. Listen as a risk manager of 30+ years experience shares what churches can an need to be doing.

In this Safe to Worship Safe Zone episode, Robert interviews a former church staff member who served in various roles for several years. They discuss what it's like for the church staff person, as well as some ideas to help the staff and church members.

In the Safe Zone podcast, Robert Hurst shares ideas, actions, and practical tips to help you make your church or house of worship a safe place to gather. In this podcast, Robert asks you to step away from any physical hand’s-on discussion about church safety, and start by asking you a simple three-word question - What's your WHY?

In episode #4 of SAFE ZONE, we discuss information and ideas on making churches safe for people to worship. In this episode, Robert shares a new way to mentally prepare to identify, prepare for, and in many cases, stop issues before they occur.

In this podcast, we discuss the number one reason that causes churches to end up in the courtroom defending themselves. We also talk about the actions and steps you can take right now to help stop it from happening. The church you save may be yours!

Welcome to the second episode of SAFE ZONE, a podcast from Safe to Worship by Robert Hurst to discuss information and ideas on making churches safe for people to worship. In this episode, Robert talks about the basic "5 P's" of starting your church safety

Welcome to the first episode of SAFE ZONE, a podcast from Safe to Worship by Robert Hurst to discuss information and ideas on making churches safe for people to worship. In this episode, Robert talks about the most asked question he receives at his seminars.