Professional training to operate in a high risk hostile environment
Hostile Environment Awareness Training (HEAT)
The training is designed for CEOs, managers, corporate executives, mineral development managers, humanitarian workers, journalists and celebrities, and anyone deployed in high-risk/hostile environment countries. Anyone wishing to enter the medium to the high-risk industry of the armed close protection sector. The 5-day course also provides the student with the minimum requirements to apply for high-risk jobs abroad such as in the Middle East, Africa, and South America.
Hostile Environment Awareness Training (HEAT) is an intensive hands-on course with hands-on activities that allow participants to explore their own behavior and learn, apply and experience life-saving behaviors through realistic simulations in a high-risk environment.
The goal is to improve personal safety and self-awareness for NGO workers. Our well-proven learning process is based on a 3-step methodology of (1) learning theory, (2) practicing classroom learning, and (3) testing newly acquired skills in realistic simulations.
5 days of intense training for hostile environments covering all aspects from theory to practice with a multiple choice exam to complete the course.
Anyone wishing to enter the high-risk industry should seriously take this type of training.This qualification is designed for those students who wish to apply for a job in the overseas high-risk industry. The course also provides the student with the minimum requirements to apply for high-risk jobs abroad such as the Middle East, Africa and South America.
- Casual jeans or Dockers; gym clothing
- Laptop with Microsoft Word and power point,
- USB stick of 10 GB max
- Pencil and pen, eraser
- Tactical belt
- Tactical boots
- Tactical pants and shirt
- Instructor
- Training equipment
- Exams
- Awards
- Classroom
- Range (where applicable)
- Cook with everything you need
- Accommodation (where applicable)
- Food and beverages
- Flights (where applicable)
- Airport transfers (where applicable)
- Safety glasses (where applicable)
- Protective ear muffs (where applicable)
Duration of the course
7 Days
Cost of the course
€ 2.000,00 VAT excluded
Evaluations
Practical tasks set and assessed internally The program requires you to complete a project from initial planning, through to final project evaluation, including briefs to all major parties involved in the project, from stakeholders to investors
Qualifications
This qualification looks at the awareness of the hostile environment. How to plan and work in hostile environments. How to assess and manage risks in this hands-on, workshop-based program. Establish and maintain organization, communication, and information systems. Monitor the progress of the project, agree on corrective actions, and communicate appropriately with the people concerned. It also defines the skills, knowledge, and understanding to maintain personal and operational safety through anti-surveillance techniques and maintain situational awareness which allows for the monitoring and minimization of patterns and habits to avoid predictability and opportunity to attack themselves or others.
- None
- Survival skills (water, food, shelter)
- Anti-personnel mines, UXOs and IEDs
- Navigation and topography
- First aid
- Kidnapping and hostage-taking
- Coping with sexual violence
- Stress management and detoxification
- Field communication and equipment
- Security planning
- Context and risk assessment
- Familiarity with weapons
- Roadblocks and roadblocks
- Crossfire
- Travel safety
- Cultural awareness and security strategies
- Better awareness of how I react under stress.
- Better understanding of how an individual’s behavior can affect a team in stressful situations.
- Greater understanding of the need to analyze situations in advance; And,
- Appreciation for thinking / feeling / analyzing before acting.
Survival Evasion Resistance and Escape (SERE)
Primarily designed for military personnel but now brought into the world of private security, especially for the PSC sector. Designed by the British in WW11 and now enriched with many real-life scenarios, this course is suitable for everyone. For anyone wishing to enter the medium to the high-risk industry of the armed close protection sector then this is a must. Anyone who wishes to survive any kind of threat this world offers. Anyone concerned about protecting themselves and their loved ones in the event of equipment malfunction, weather changes, injury, vehicle breakdown, dead batteries, or a multitude of other problems. The course also provides the student with the minimum requirements to apply for high-risk jobs abroad such as in the Middle East, Africa, and South America.
This course will see you on the run after being captured and interrogated, navigating by stars and natural elements trained prior to your mission, evading the enemy and finding shelter for the night before traveling many miles to an ERV zone where you will have to hold out until arrival rescue.
You will be trained to withstand interrogations that could endanger your team, you will learn the art of negotiation by keeping yourself alive until you come up with the best escape plan.
5 days of intense hostile environment close protection training covering all aspects from theory to practice with a multiple choice exam to complete the course.
You will be tested by our highly experienced tutors, so be prepared to train hard every single day, so this course really prepares you for high-risk bodyguard and armed private security contractors looking to work overseas in places like Iraq and Libya for example.
- Clothing
- Closed shoes (preferably hiking boots)
- Long pants
- Sun hat
- Long-sleeved shirt
- An extra pair of socks
- Warm layers (possibly including a warm hat and gloves depending on the season / forecast)
- Rainwear (you never know what the weather will decide to do!)
- At least 2 large full water bottles (at least 2 liters) and extra water)
- Headlamp (with extra batteries, the red setting is nice to have)
- Sufficient bedding for local night temperatures appropriate to the season (heat pillow (non-inflatable recommended) and sleeping bag)
- Shelter (tent with a base tarp, OR a tarp, line and optional pegs. Soft colors / with better earth tones)
- Sufficient provision of all necessary medications (twice the allotted time of absence) and other health support items, including minimal toiletries:
- Backpack
- An extra liter of load capacity (3 liters in total)
- Complete change of clothes
- Another change of socks (wear at least 1 and bring 2 more)
- Food for another 5 days of breakfasts, lunches and snacks (dinners will also be provided)
- Survival items you have questions about or want to practice with (maps, compasses, pieces of shelter, fire lighters, purchased survival or medical kits, etc.)
- Sunscreen
- Sunglasses or safety glasses
- Insect spray or insect net (seasonal)
- Field chair / crazy creek / seat cushion
- Materials for taking notes
- Leather gloves
- Personal camouflage items such as face paint, cloth, etc …
- Binding, binding and binding techniques
- Instructor
- Training equipment
- Exams
- Awards
- Classroom
- Range (where applicable)
- Cook with everything you need
- Accommodation (where applicable)
- Food and beverages
- Flights (where applicable)
- Airport transfers (where applicable)
- Safety glasses (where applicable)
- Protective ear muffs (where applicable)
Duration of the course
3 Days
Cost of the course
€ 1.150,00 VAT excluded
Evaluations
Practical tasks set and assessed internally
- None
- Prepare for escapism
- Navigation
- negotiation
- Bushcraft
- The principles of effective camouflage
- Meeting your basic survival needs in tactical environments
- Movement techniques alone or in small groups
- How to minimize the signs of presence and passage
- NBC considerations (nuclear, biological and chemical)
- Packaging for silence and camouflage
- Physical conditioning
- Setting up secret contacts / communication strategies
- Psychological Factors Affecting Dodgers
- Methods for calming anxiety
- Effective camouflage
- Learn to use natural and artificial materials to mask visual, sound and olfactory perception
- Sources of water and food
- Learn to build escape shelters
- Understanding when and how to build a combat fire
- Movement techniques:
- Learn the best times to move in tactical situations
- Learn how to effectively cross various types of barriers (roads, walls, fences, etc.)
- Practice basic hand signals for small group travel
- Minimize signs of presence and passage:
- Learn to move in different environments while minimizing traces
- Learn methods of sweeping and naturalizing a campsite to minimize subsequent detection
- Find out what types of vegetation and terrain to avoid
- NBC considerations (nuclear, biological and chemical): find out how to respond in NBC conditions to improve the chances of survival you and your companions
- Training Coverage: This one-day training covers many different knots, snags, and ties, incorporating hands-on practical applications in scenarios such as building shelters, securing poles between trees, making tripods, and climbing or descending in emergency double rope.
- Full course description:
- Basics: the nomenclature of a line, a couple of simple effective curves and loops, and methods of memorizing the line
- Running ends, body, standing ends, rings above and below the hand, turns, coils, loop and tail
- How to prepare the line for effective use: cut to appropriate lengths and burn the ends so that they are slender
- Two different curves and how to untie them easily
- The difference between a running loop and a slip loop and how to use them for different purposes
- Two different ways to tie the “king of all knots” the bowline and the trick to untie it easily
- Two methods to archive your line so it can be used quickly in an emergency
- Shelter Knots: Several simple, quick and effective knots for tying emergency material shelters
- Learn several snags that can be used to quickly assemble and disassemble a tarp type shelter
- Emergency Evacuation Knots: Several makeshift knots and ropes useful for rappelling from damaged buildings or down cliffs
- Straps: Useful for building pretty much anything you might need in the backcountry
- Learn a useful harness for connecting poles in line to make tripods for things like clothes drying racks, smokers, A-frame shelters, tables, pots hanging from the fire, etc.
Other courses:
- 7 days Close Quarter Battle (CQB)
- 9 days HECPO (Hostile Environment Close Protection Officer)
- 9 days Private Security Contractor) PSD
- 4 days IED Awareness Training
Information
Information for CQB, HECPO, PSD, and IED courses must be requested directly from the S.A.S. secretariat.
- Servizi Aziendali Speciali Srl
- (+39) 463 901 545
- Street, via Nazionale 1343, 38025 Dimaro Folgarida - Trento - Italy
- info@sasinvestigation.com
- www.sasinvestigation.com
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