Safe Zone is your one place for sane and practical discussion about keeping your place of worship safer. In the Safe Zone, we integrate common sense ideas and concepts from various disciplines for tips that help create greater safety and security. Safe Zone isn’t just about you. It’s about everyone you love and care for where you worship.There's a bonus, too! Everything we discuss in Safe Zone can be used in your business, school, and family life. We are working to help everyone live in a Safe Zone!
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…
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…
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 start…
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 explore…
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 liabilit…
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…
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 …
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 Protoco…
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 resta…
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…
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 st…
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 we…
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…
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 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…
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…
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 talk…