Hostile Environment Awareness Training

This course is designed to assist media teams, free-lance  journalists, NGO’s and corporate clients to prepare for and manage risk while working in complex, dynamic and potentially hostile and austere situations and environments. We prepare your teams to operate with confidence; delivering the skill sets to work safely, effectively and to mitigate risk in remote, challenging and hostile environments globally.

 

Organizations, groups and individuals who wish to conduct business or travel in complex, hostile or remote areas face risks on a daily basis, many of which can be life threatening. These risks can have a detrimental impact on reputation, businesses and most importantly personal security.  7SI have developed a series of bespoke courses that are tailored to meet client needs. 

 

The Hostile Environment Awareness  Training program is delivered through a mixture of lectures, discussion groups, workshops, practical evolutions and exercises.  The program focuses on preparation and planning, threat identification, risk mitigation strategies, self-sufficiency, situational awareness and trauma management.  

 

Course duration: 3 days

The course will include, but not limited to the following.

 

• Planning and preparation

• Security, communications and contingency planning

• Selection of equipment (PPE)

• Threat Assessment, Task Planning & Mitigation 

• Personal preparation and security

• Travel safety

• De-escalation and conflict management 

• Ballistic awareness and protection

• Navigation

• Public disorders

• Improvised and purpose-built explosive devices

• Explosive remnants of war 

• Working with conventional and non-conventional forces

• Kidnap avoidance and surviving in captivity techniques

• Information security

• Working in disaster zones

• Scene safety

• Casualty care under fire

• Cultural awareness and gender specific considerations 

• First-Aid

• Extraction Protocols

• Psychological First-Aid

• Respirators (selection, use, donning/doffing