Organization: RedR UK
Registration deadline: 19 Oct 2016
Starting date: 26 Oct 2016
Ending date: 28 Oct 2016
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 Security for Humanitarians 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.
Topics on First Aid for the Field will discussed during the training.
What does the course cover?
- Context assessment
- Assessing risk
- Threat and vulnerability
- Developing security strategies
- Personal communication
- Security planning
- Field communications equipment
- Stress management
- Coping with sexual violence
- Vehicles and travel security
- Evacuation planning and procedures
- Abduction
- Detention and kidnap
- 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 booking and participants are expected to arrive at the training venue on the Tuesday night before training commences. Accommodation will be provided however, please note that dinner will not be provided. Accommodation and meals on the subsequent two nights will be fully provided.
Registration will take place from 8.30 hrs on the first day of training. Training will start at 9.00 hrs and finish at 17.30 hrs on day one and 18:00 hrs on day two, with sessions resuming after dinner at 19:00hrs.
On the final day (day three), training will finish by 16.30 hrs, and all participants are expected to be present for the end of the course.
Day 1
The three day course begins with an introduction to personal safety and security in the field and gaining an understanding to where you are working. The course will move on to assessing and reducing risk. After lunch, you will learn about security strategies and security management framework. The last session of the day will cover radio communications and emergency communication and incident reporting. The day will conclude with a video and discussion.
Day 2
On the second day of the course, practical exercises will take place and training will end at 18.00 hrs, with a social event to follow.
Day 3
On the final day, training will finish by 16.30 hrs, concluded by a recapping of the key points, answering any lingering questions, completing course evaluations, and receiving your certificates of completion.
How to register:
http://www.redr.org.uk/en/Training-and-more/participant-info/booking-iframe.cfm/course_url/PSHOCT16