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Personal Security in Emergencies
Run by the humanitarian sector, for the humanitarian sector.
Security training is vital for all aid workers operating in unstable environments. Whether you are an individual, being deployed to the field, or are responsible for ensuring the staff in your organisation are as safe as possible in the work they do, Personal Security in Emergencies is the essential course.
For about the cost of a cup of coffee per day for a year, this course can help keep you or your staff safe whilst working in an insecure environment.1
Aid workers are now more at risk than ever before. According to the Overseas Development Institute, in 2008, 260 humanitarian aid workers were killed, kidnapped or seriously injured in violent attacks.2 It is essential that you do everything possible to ensure your own safety and security when working in unstable environments, and you need to feel confident that you have the skills and knowledge to react to a potential threat if it should arise.
Numeric Code: 09010
Date:
24 - 27 Sep 2009
Length: 4 days
Location: UK
Residential/Non-Residential: Residential
Suitable for:
The course is designed primarily for humanitarian personnel but it is also applicable to anyone who is likely to be deployed to an environment that is, or has the possibility to be, insecure.
Course covers:
An intensive, dynamic 4-day course where you will discuss, learn and apply approaches and measures to improve your personal security when living and working in insecure environments.
What you learn in the classroom you immediately get to put into practice during interactive simulation exercises.
Personal Security in Emergencies will help you better understand your role in a given context and will give insight into how your behaviour impacts on your own personal security and safety as well as that of your colleagues and your organisation.
The course will introduce a variety of measures to reduce the likelihood of security-related incidents taking place and gives guidance as to the appropriate responses when incidents do occur.
This course will cover context assessment; assessing risk, threat and vulnerability; developing security strategies; security planning, field communications equipment; stress management; coping with sexual violence; vehicles and travel security; evacuation planning and procedures; abduction, detention and kidnap; surviving hostile environments.
Registration will take place on Wednesday evening between 19.00 hrs and 21.00 hrs. Training will begin on Thursday morning at 09.00 hrs and finish by 16.00 hrs on Sunday.
Location: Fire Service College, Moreton-in-Marsh
Course outcomes:
At the end of the course you will be able to:
- Explain the importance of understanding your role and the security environment
- Be able to undertake a context analysis and a personal risk assessment
- Demonstrate immediate responses to hostile environments
- Effectively contribute to a security planning process
- Describe measures to reduce personal and team vulnerability to a range of threats
- Explain the importance of cultural awareness and sensitivity, team working, interpersonal communications and how diversity impacts on security
Cost:
The fees are inclusive of all accommodation and food from the evening of registration to the last afternoon of training, simulation exercises, workbook, and four days of intensive training. Participants will be responsible for arranging their own travel to and from the venue.
| Band A | £495 |
| Band B | £645 |
| Band C | £795 |
| Band D | £1100 |
If you have any questions please contact the training team:
email: training@redr.org.uk
phone: +44 (0)20 7840 6000
1 If the cost of the course was spread out over the course of a year, then the daily cost would be between £1.36 and £3.01 depending on the fee band paid.
2 ODI Providing aid in insecure environments: 2009 Update
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