Field Security and Resilience
Date:
19 - 21 Sep 2012
Length: 3 days
Location: London, UK
Residential: No
This specialist integrated training course is designed to equip NGO managers with the awareness and skills to ensure their health, safety and wellbeing in the field, as well as that of their teams.
The three-day course brings together three critical skill areas; First Aid, travel safety and psychological resilience. Alongside learning practical responses to medical emergencies, the course will help you build robust strategies for keeping physically safe and help you understand the psychological pressures which you and your teams are under.
Combining strategies for both short-term emergencies and longer-term deployments, the course offers a powerful set of tools that will keep you and your teams resilient and able to function effectively and calmly.
Who should attend?
This training is particularly aimed at anyone with a managerial or supervisory responsibility for other field workers. Nevertheless any NGO worker who travels regularly in remote field locations can benefit from the course.
The training
Days 1 and 2 represent a unique learning opportunity that combines training in both personal security and psychological safety. NGO managers with responsibility for other staff need to be aware of their context and the possible safety and security risks they may encounter as they travel. This course works with you to identify tools and techniques to ensure safe and secure practices and protocols. At the same time, you will examine the close relationship between physical security and psychological safety, particularly the way in which inadequate security creates unwanted anxiety.
Day 3 offers a thorough grounding in the basic first aid skills required to deal with medical emergencies in remote locations. The course covers a range of topics, including incident management, cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR), treatment of fractures and burns and the extraction of injured people from vehicles following road traffic accidents.
By the end of the course, you will be able to:
• Assess the threats, vulnerabilities and risks in your field context
• Identify and implement appropriate travel safety activities, before, during and after field trips
• Identify the impact of both cumulative and acute stress
• Respond to medical emergencies in remote locations with practical First Aid skills
• Promote robust psychological care for staff in the aftermath of traumatic events
• Develop longer-term resilience strategies, both for yourself and your teams.
• Think creatively about the link between physical security and psychological safety
• Describe the different levels of stress and explain their impact on body and mind
• Identify the threats to your psychological wellbeing as well as your own potential vulnerabilities
• Honestly assess areas in which your coping strategies are counterproductive
• Explain the principle of “containment” and describe its application to individual and team resilience
• Use the core actions of Psychological First Aid (PFA) to support colleagues and staff in the aftermath of critical incidents
• Define the basic principles of resilience
• Outline an effective action plan for your personal resilience
Given that some may find it difficult to take three days out for training, participants are more than welcome to join us on days 1 & 2 only or day 3 exclusively.
Location
The course is designed in partnership with Interhealth and will be held at the Interhealth London Office, 111 Westminster Bridge Road, London SE1 7HR
Regisatration and timings
Registration will take place at 8.45 am on the first morning. Training will begin at 9.00 am and end by 5.30 pm each day.
Cost
Band A: £330/£220
Band B: £429/£286
Band C: £557/£372
Band D: £725/£483
With fist aid/without first aid
The fees are inclusive of all training resources, lunch and refreshments. For further information on pricing bands please use the link on the right.
Participants on this course are eligible for the RedR Training Loyalty Scheme.
Please click here to read our full terms and conditions. For more information please contact our training team.
