HAMILTON, Ohio — Investigators are still trying to find why a gunman opened fire inside a New Albany cosmetics facility. Active shooter situations like these have become a major workplace safety concern, but there are training programs to help keep you safe. Ohio officers are showing workers and students how to survive active shooter threats. 

What looks like office furniture is what detective Tim Andrews said could save you from an active shooter.

“We can barricade these doors and keep things up against them to keep them from getting opened," said Andrews. 

Once you’ve blocked the doors, he said use that same furniture to make a safe space. Then he said look around the room for anything you can use to defend yourself.

“There’s a flag pole right here with a sphere on the end of it," said Andrews. 

It’s all a part of a method called run, hide, fight.

“If you're able to run and get away, go, get out, if you find yourself in a building where you can't get out quickly, then you would find a place where you could hide, the fight is what you wanna do at the very end of anything," said Andrews. 

It’s what he teaches students to do in schools when there’s an active shooter, and now, it’s what his team out of the Butler County Sheriff’s Office is teaching workers, too.

“I mean, how many people are terminated? How many disgruntled employees? You might have customers, so you never know when somebody is going to have a really bad day and take something to the next level," said Andrews. 

He said they’re doing more training too. When there’s an active shooter, he switches from detective to S.W.A.T. team.

He said they used to wait for the team to get there before going in to a building, not anymore.

“Now what it is, first in first there, if I show up and it's just me there, I'm going to take what we consider take the fight to the aggressor," said Andrews, "the theory behind that is, is as long as if I get there first, how many more people can I potentially save? and then I take his attention off of hurting the innocent and putting it on me." 

Andrews said he hasn’t had to do that yet, but he’s ready, and wants to make sure you are too if there’s an active shooter.