Course Description

This course consists of planning and travel security, regional threats facing employees, travel preparation and practical tasks for learners

Who Should Attend:
This course is suitable for all those who travel internationally and who wish to reduce risks to personal safety and the safety of casualties.

Course Outline:
The course consists of the following elements across three days:-

Day 1

• Regional Threat Brief - Overview of current threats facing employees in region.
• Planning/Travel Security - The importance of the various stages of travel planning and preparation including use of emergency and contingency plans.
• Casualty Assessment - Assessing a casualty’s injuries via a standard format (primary survey, resuscitation phase, secondary survey, holding phase).
• Self-Sufficiency - Deployment preparedness covering personal needs and preparation, health, clothing and equipment .
• Airway Management - Demonstrates methods and techniques for dealing with blocked airways.
• Vehicle Search - Theory aspects of safety searching vehicles, including a practical exercise.
• Cardio-Pulmonary Emergency - Explains and demonstrates the procedures used in dealing with cardiac emergencies.

Day 2

• Personal Security/Risk Reduction - Basic personal security procedures and methods to reduce the risk to oneself. How to ensure you are not a target and how to best deal with confrontation
• Wounds and Bleeding - Causes and types of bleeding and how to effectively treat wounds
• Cultural Awareness - How cultural awareness can improve personal security (area specific)
• Vehicle Safety and Travel - Vehicle choice, driving policies, vehicle security, route selection, convoy techniques
• Climatic Conditions - Identifying risks to operating in hot climates. Diagnosis and treatment of heat related injuries
• Hostage Survival - Methodology of kidnap and how best to avoid a kidnap ordeal. Includes various types of psychological tools which can be utilised in this scenario.

Day 3

• Fractures - Identifying and treating upper and lower limb fractures. Practical session including correct lifting techniques.
• Hotel Accommodation Security - Security awareness procedures required when selecting and staying in accommodation.
• Student Travel Plans - Presentations, identification of risks, mitigation, plans and requirements.
• Scenario Exercises - A series of realistic and varied practical training scenarios, controlled exercises designed to consolidate the important themes learned on the course using exciting and challenging scenarios.
• Course review
• Review of course and recap on learning points

Course Duration
This 3 day course includes two breaks of fifteen minutes and a lunch of a one hour duration each day.
 

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