About Us

As the founders of Safe Desks 4 Kids, we have decades of experience in the commercial furniture and construction industry. We have tirelessly pursued a collective vision of designing and creating practical pieces of furniture made for daily use. We now have developed furniture for a very helpful purpose, with a focus on the opportunity to protect people and save lives. We’ve developed seemingly ordinary items for use in an extraordinary way, including educational, business, institutional, and government facilities.

Our specially designed safety products can be used in:

  • Schools – K-12, Higher Education
  • Military
  • Medical and professional office buildings
  • Government buildings
  • Private businesses

Our classroomtype work table is functional and durable for daily use, and it boasts stylish design aesthetics. Most importantly, our work table is capable of absorbing and neutralizing multiple highvelocity rounds from high velocity firearms in the hands of a potential threat.

Our Vision

There has become a need to provide an option for physical protection in learning, medical, professional, and private business environments. As continued reports from survivors of mass shootings in schools and other facilities are made known, we’ve learned that those involved are repeatedly instructed to hide behind and under their furniture. We have realized this option offers little to no protection from gunfire. Our Student Bodyguardis the only bulletproof table of its kind, capable of providing full frontal protection from projectiles fired from semiautomatic, automatic and high velocity firearms.

These tables can be incorporated into monthly drills and active shooter trainings. Each month, teachers, students and employees can practice rotating the tables up, interlinking them together and filing in behind them in timed drills. In a classroom setting, a separate table, the teacher’s desk, can be rotated up and wheeled in front of the doorway. The casters in locked position then restrain a potential threat from entering a classroom. The same strategy can be used in an office setting. If an attacker directs their attention toward the back of the classroom or office, anyone behind our tables will be hidden and protected.

 

How the Table Works

Time is critical in these tense situations. The ability to provide a few more minutes of protection until help arrives can make all the difference in the outcome. Our table was created for just that reason, to buy additional time until responding officers arrive on site. Our table appears and functions as any other table. In the event of an active shooter, the person seated at the table releases the pull handle on the underside of the table. The top quickly and easily rotates upward to create a bullet resistant barrier in under five seconds. Add more tables side by side to lengthen this solid barrier of protection.

 These tables can be incorporated into monthly drills, much like the tornado drills we participated in when we were in school. One day each month, teachers and students can practice flipping the tables up, interlinking them together and having students practice filing in behind them in timed drills. It is our firm belief that, with some practice, our tables can be flipped up, inter-linked, and the entire classroom filed in and sheltered behind the tables in under 30 seconds. A separate table (the Administrator’s desk) can be flipped up and wheeled in front of the door entrance. The casters can be locked so it cannot easily be pushed away, restraining the threat to the doorway. If the threat then focused and lashed out toward the back of the classroom, anyone behind our tables would be
fully protected.

Media

KSDK NBC News Story – St. Louis, MO

9/28/18

NEWSY News Story

11/20/18

WTVC ABC News Story – Chattanooga, TN

11/6/19

KETV ABC News Story – Omaha, NE

11/15/19