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ILS HEAT 3-Day Course
For organisations whose staff travel to high risk, remote or complex settings, or who are involved in the delivery of contentious projects, the provision of Hostile Environment Awareness Training (HEAT) is critically important.
Running since 2010, our 3-day HEAT courses have been designed to offer a more accessible learning experience for participants, one that focusses on human behaviour and risk psychology, as well as more established tactical threats.
ILS HEAT courses are CPD-accredited and delivered by a mixed gender team of professional security advisors and medics. Using up-to-date theory and best practice principles on risk mitigation, our course content is informed by our ongoing risk advisory field work around the world.
Our courses combine classroom-based learning with immersive simulations and activities that put delegates’ new skills to the test.
Our ILS HEAT courses are delivered regularly at our training centres near London, UK, and Nairobi, Kenya. They can also be delivered globally on demand.
Our Approach
Personal Safety is rarely a binary choice. There are countless ‘what ifs’ across an endless array of dynamic contextual changes. Recognising this, our teaching works on the fundamental principle that ‘You will always have choices, but all choices have consequences.'
In this way, our course builds the capacity of our participants to make informed decisions so that they can take personal responsibility for their actions, while considering the implication of those actions, within a framework of good practice principles.
The physical and psychological safety of our participants is of the utmost importance. We have invested heavily in systems, training and processes to ensure that every participant is cared for and empowered by their time with us, whatever their ability or needs.
Throughout the programme the instructors link three distinct topics:
Human Security
- The human factors that affect safety and security. Our team help delegates to understand the 'drivers’ to interpersonal violence, and their own attitudes and responses to it.
Physical Security
- Abduction, blast threats, vehicle check points, weapon effects; the ILS team explore and explain tactics employed by armed actors around the world. Delegates will learn how to reduce their personal and team vulnerabilities to these threats.
First Aid
- Basic Life Support for remote locations where access to definitive care is not easily accessible. The reality of delivering this kind of first aid can mean improvising equipment, and making difficult and pressured decisions.
by humanitarians,
for humanitarians.
By combining modules on physical safety, human security, digital risk and first aid, our courses offer an integrated and challenging programme of learning, including modules on:
- Weapons Awareness
- Communications and Incident reporting
- Psychological Responses to Risk
- Negotiation
- Information Security
- Road Threats
- Basic Life Support
- Psychological Resilience
- Sexual Violence
- Kidnap and Detention
- Blast Threats
At the end of the training, delegates will be able to:
- Conduct a context analysis and a personal travel risk assessment
- Explain their personal responses to risk
- Identify measures that reduce personal and team vulnerability to a range of threats
- Describe actions to take in the event of an incident occurring to reduce its impact
- List key protective equipment that can be used to increase personal safety
- Demonstrate how to communicate effectively during a critical incident
- Practice Basic Life Support
