Overview
This compact 3-day Hostile Environment Awareness Training (HEAT) course is intended to provide you with the vital skills and knowledge to react effectively when operating in high-risk politically unstable or conflict zone environments. Our training program encompasses critical training modules that provide extensive exposure to country-specific risks and is designed to place individuals in realistic situations to achieve the best preparation before deployments.
Benefits
You will receive an extensive amount of the knowledge needed to allow you to act confidently and effectively when faced with various situations in a high-risk and complex environment.
Why HEAT?
It’s a difficult reality to face, but when operating in a hostile and complex environment with the life threatening increased threats and likelihood of something happening it is imperative to be prepared.
SVS Risk provides our tip of excellence market leading Hostile Environment Awareness Training (HEAT) course, which is a tailor-made robust awareness training programme designed to prepare professional individuals such as NGOs, private contractors, journalists to be able to minimise their risk in some of the most challenging, complex and high-risk theatres globally.
This diverse market leading training programme is delivered by highly experienced ex-military professionals with an abundance of experience operating in such environments.
Realtime
During the course actual past and current events will be utilised to give you a full experience of managing situations that you may be exposed to.
Topics Covered
- Growing Risk in Warzones
- Operating Environment Threat Risk Assessments
- Health Precautions
- Hostile Environment Critical Trauma First Aid
- Medical Intelligence
- Pre-Deployment Preparation
- Personal Protection and Emergency Equipment
- Travel and Personal Security
- Hotel and Accommodation Security
- Communications and Reporting
- Daily Task Planning
- Warzone Awareness of Improvised Explosive Devices and Incoming Fire
- Vehicle Transport Management and Vehicle Checkpoints
- Battlefield Schematics and a Changing Environment
- Actions on Ambush or Contact both on foot and Vehicle
- Kidnap and Detention
- Emergency Evacuation
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