HEAT

HEAT

When the Stakes Are High, Preparation Isn’t Optional

The Hostile Environment Awareness Training (HEAT) course equips you with the practical skills, confidence, and mindset to survive and operate effectively in volatile, unpredictable environments.

Delivered over 5 immersive days, HEAT blends realistic scenarios with expert-led instruction so you can anticipate threats, avoid danger, and respond decisively when it matters most.

Because Good Work Shouldn’t Come at the Cost of Safety

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What You’ll Learn

By the end of this course, you’ll be able to:

  • Recognise and assess threats in unstable environments and take proactive measures to stay safe.
  • Apply proven personal security tactics to reduce your vulnerability in urban, rural, and remote settings.
  • Communicate effectively under pressure using secure and reliable methods.
  • Provide life-saving first aid in hostile or resource-limited environments.
  • Navigate coercive situations with strategies to avoid escalation or harm.
  • Operate with confidence in the face of unpredictable challenges, from civil unrest to environmental hazards.

It’s not where you’re going that puts you in danger — it’s being unprepared when the unexpected happens.

Who Should Take This Course

This course is designed for anyone responsible for traveller safety, including:

  • Journalists and media teams operating in conflict or disaster zones
  • Humanitarian aid workers and NGO staff in volatile regions
  • Corporate professionals conducting business in high-threat locations
  • Academic researchers working in remote or politically sensitive areas
  • Security personnel and contractors in challenging environments
  • Government and diplomatic staff assigned to complex missions

If your role places you in harm’s way, HEAT gives you the preparation you need to stay safe and effective.

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Hostile Environment Awareness Training

What’s Inside the Course

Develop the mindset and behaviours needed to reduce your profile, avoid danger, and stay situationally aware — from day one, these principles are stress-tested in real-time simulations.

Learn how to defuse tension, read a room, and communicate assertively under pressure. You’ll practice these skills during staged encounters and escalating conflict drills.

Master radio procedures, emergency reporting, and field comms setups — then apply them in dynamic, high-stakes training environments.

Plan secure routes, identify ambush points, navigate through checkpoints safely, and respond to vehicle attacks through active scenarios and movement-based exercises.

Understand the unique threats of operating in armed conflict settings. Whether that is working with armed actors, through to responding to indirect fire and aerial bombardment. Apply threat mapping tools and safe practices in realistic conflict scenarios.

Learn how to recognise mined areas, UXO indicators, and react to blast events. Practical drills bring the theory to life.

Experience realistic kidnapping and hostage survival training delivered by professionals. Learn how to avoid being kidnapped, and experience a condensed version of a hostage situation — and learn strategies to survive it.

Apply trauma care techniques under pressure — from controlling massive bleeding and managing airways to stabilising casualties during high-threat evacuations.

Throughout the course, you’ll face evolving scenarios that mirror real-world dilemmas — blending physical action, moral judgement, and situational leadership.

The course culminates in a full-day simulation where you will operate as part of a deployed team. Every skill is put to the test in a complex, unfolding crisis designed to feel as real as it gets.

Course Features:

  • 5-Days of Intensive Training
  • Immersive, Scenario-Based Learning
  • Certificate of Completion & Record of Learning
  • Pre-course Blended eLearning Pathway
  • Expert Instructors with Operational Experience
  • Airport Pickup & Drop-Off Provided
  • Accommodation Included
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Doing Everything You Can to Keep Your People Safe

Our 5-day HEAT course is a critical step in fulfilling your responsibility to protect staff deployed into challenging environments. Providing the right security training for employees, allows your team to enhance their mindset and confidence to mitigate risk, respond to emergencies, and operate effectively in volatile settings. It’s a proven way to reduce avoidable harm and demonstrate that you’ve taken every reasonable measure to keep your people safe.

You’ll Walk Away With:

  • Lifesaving skills and threat response capabilities
  • Confidence to operate in complex and volatile environments
  • Practical experience applying your knowledge under stress
  • Tools and mindset that go far beyond theory

Don’t Wait Until It’s Too Late to Prepare

In high-risk environments, there are no second chances.

When things go wrong, the difference between a close call and a fatality often comes down to how well they were prepared.

This course ensures your people don’t have to learn the hard way.

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