This is an intensive, dynamic hostile environment awareness training (HEAT) course where you will discuss, learn and apply approaches and measures to improve your personal security when living and working in insecure environments. ‘Personal Safety in Emergencies’ has been designed specifically from an NGO perspective to provide the most relevant and challenging training for NGO workers. Essential theory learned in the classroom will immediately be put into practice in real-life simulation exercises, confronting key issues such as roadblocks, abduction, weapons, mines and crossfire. The course is designed to put you under stressful circumstances, preparing you for the worst case-scenario.
The course will introduce a variety of measures to help you reduce the likelihood of security-related incidents taking place and enable you to respond appropriately to situations that could compromise your safety and that of your colleagues.
What does the course cover?
- Gender and security
- Context assessment with a focus on urban contexts
- Assessing risk
- Threat and vulnerability
- Developing security strategies
- Security planning
- Interpersonal Communication
- Stress management
- Coping with sexual violence
- Vehicles and travel security
- Abduction, detention and kidnap with a focus on sexual violence
- Evacuation planning and procedures
- Surviving hostile environments
By the end of the course you will be able to:
- Explain the importance of understanding your role and the security environment
- Undertake a context analysis and a personal risk assessment
- Demonstrate immediate responses to hostile environments
- Effectively contribute to a security planning process
- Describe measures to reduce personal and team vulnerability to a range of threats
- Explain the importance of cultural awareness and sensitivity, team working, interpersonal communications and how diversity impacts on security
- Demonstrate immediate responses to threats in the operating environment
Who should attend?
Personal security training is crucial for anyone working in an insecure or hostile environment. The course is designed primarily for humanitarian personnel, but it is also applicable to anyone who is likely to be deployed to an environment that is, or has the possibility to be insecure.
Course structure:
This three-day course is fully residential. Participants are required to arrange their own timely travel to and from the training venue. Details of how to get to this training venue shall be provided in the course joining instructions upon course confirmation.
How to apply:
Please contact SSA.Courses@redr.org.uk to register your interest.
Cost:
Minimal commitment fee of 50$ for local NGOs and 100$ for UN and INGO staff, payable before training.
