Hostile Environment Awareness Training (HEAT)

Working as an aid worker for a relief organization, a correspondent covering armed conflict or a security contractor safeguarding the reconstruction process in a war-torn country  – the wide range of personal risks, to which you expose yourself during work in a Hostile Environment may vary from a flat tire in the desert to being kidnapped for ransom by a group of insurgents.

It may frequently be important to the aims of your organization of being perceived as impartial and neutral by conflicting parties and the local population alike. Close connections with military structures are therefore often considered counterproductive – which in turn may negatively reflect on your personal safety.

To compensate for this deficit, we have worked out a brand-new training concept for those of you working in areas of conflict without being able to rely on permanent protection by the authorities.

Our state-of-the-art training courses and modules cover, among others, the following topics:

Hostile Environment Awareness Training (HEAT)

1. Security Mindset

• Developing Safety and Security Consciousness

• Understanding the Dynamics of Areas of Conflict

• Risk Assessment
  • Setting up an Alarm System
  • Gathering and Evaluation of Intelligence
  • Surveillance Detection
  • Mine / EOD Awareness

• Creating a Safe Environment (at the individual level)
  • Private accommodation
  • Office / Work place
  • Cross Country Travel

• Street Crime
  • Dealing with Violence
  • Armed Confrontations
    • Harassment
    • Robbery
    • Car-Napping
• Kidnapping
  • Nature of Kidnapping
  • Safety Precautions
  • Conduct after Capture

1. Physical Preparedness

• Trauma Life Support
  • Good medicine in bad places (Care under Fire)

• Driver Training
  • Emergency Driving Skills
  • Off-Road Training (4×4)
  • Basic Problem Solving

• Survival Skills
  • The Psychology of Survival
  • Equipment
  • Navigation
  • Shelter, Fire, Water, Food
  • Firearms Familiarization
  • Basic Self-Defense

• Physical Fitness
  • The importance of keeping in shape
  • Training programs

Interested? Contact us:

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