HOSTILE ENVIRONMENT & TRAVEL SECURITY AWARENESS TRAINING
Our wide range of training courses equip individuals and businesses with the knowledge and skills they need to manage their own risks by educating them of the potential threats to their safety. Whether that is preparing to travel overseas or reinforcing security procedures, our professional instructors have a wealth of real-world experience to assist clients to understand and prepare for the risks they face either travelling or on business.
Our training courses are comprehensive but not exhaustive; to ensure our clients are operating as safely as possible, we can tailor our services to meet their specific needs.
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Our bespoke travel security courses range from 1 to 5 days depending on the client requirement and can include online training. Our pragmatic approach to training takes into account the key risks to the traveler and focusses on road traffic incident (journey management), medical emergency (first aid & evacuation) and crime (including terrorism).
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Modules:
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Identifying the risks and understanding the risk environment
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Travel planning and preparation
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Vehicles and effective journey management
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Remote first aid and medical emergencies
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Conflict management and personal safety
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Gender based vulnerabilities
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Accommodation and location security
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Communications
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Civil unrest and protest
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Information and data security
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Natural disasters
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Incident Management
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Psychological First Aid & Emotional Resilience
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Kidnap and Ransom
HEAT – Hostile Environment Awareness Training
​Our Hostile Environment Awareness Training course is designed to prepare personnel for working overseas in complex, challenging or hostile environments. Overseas travel can present organisations and individuals with significant risks, especially considering the current global threat of hostility towards western people and western assets. Our comprehensive three day HEAT course aims to give employees the tools to mitigate risks while working abroad and covers preparing to travel, operating safely while in the country, identifying risks, and what to do if the worst happens. Our training programme comprises a complete range of issues, from vehicle maintenance, to remote first aid to responding to a complex attack.
Our team of experienced instructors from a broad spectrum of backgrounds have an unrivalled knowledge of hostile environments and the risks therein, and deliver the course using a range of teaching and learning methods, including practical elements, to ensure you and your staff are operating safely while overseas.
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A video advising UK holidaymakers what to do in the event of a terror attack abroad has been released by police. Click here to watch it on the BBC website.
Gap Year
Similar to the HEAT course, our gap year course is a one-day travel safety programme tailored towards young adults preparing to travel or work overseas. Risks can present themselves at any time when travelling, and recent events have shown that incidents can occur even in areas which might appear safe such as bars, beaches and hotels.
Using a mixture of practical, discussion, and desktop exercises, our knowledgeable and experienced instructors will cover key risk areas affecting young people while travelling such as cultural awareness and sensitivity, finding safe accommodation, vehicle travel and natural disasters. Our course aims not to take the fun and adventure out of travelling but to minimise the risks involved, and to reassure friends and family at home that their loved ones are equipped with suitable training to keep themselves safe.
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A video advising UK holidaymakers what to do in the event of a terror attack abroad has been released by police. Click here to watch it on the BBC website​.
Security Management
Our Security Management course is designed for existing Security Managers, those who have a security function as part of their role, and other individuals who are looking to work within the security management industry. This course aims to expand the existing knowledge and skills of security personnel and covers the whole breadth of security management concepts, from assessing risk and vulnerability, to developing company specific security policies, to understanding the responsibilities of each of the security team and management.
After taking this course, Security Managers will be equipped with the fundamental expertise to carry out their duties to a high standard and manage their team effectively. We are security and risk management specialists and have experience across numerous industries, so we are well placed to pass on our knowledge to Security Managers to allow them to implement robust security management practices.