Country: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Registration deadline: 22 Mar 2019
Starting date: 25 Mar 2019
Ending date: 27 Mar 2019
SAFA TRAINING DETAILS
Who Are ILS?
ILS is a well-established and highly respected provider of safety and security solutions to the not for profit sector – acting as preferred provider to some of the biggest, and some of the smallest, NGOs in the world.
All of ILS’ instructor team have extensive humanitarian and development backgrounds; they understand the humanitarian imperative and the critical role in security of personal and organisational Acceptance
What is SAFA?
Security Awareness and First Aid Training, or SAFA, is a giant leap forward in terms of hostile environment awareness training.
Over three days and two night SAFA courses offer participants an immersive, cost effective, risk appropriate and in depth learning experience which prepares them for the realities of living and working in hazardous, emergency or 'deep field' locations.
Course delegates are taught in three strands, which interlink throughout the course;
• Human Security - as well as understanding the operating space within which they will operate, delegates are taught about the human factors that affect their safety and security. Our team help the delegates to understanding the 'drivers' to violence, their own attitudes and appetites to it and will come away able to exert influence within the context of interpersonal violence.
• Hard Security - delegates will learn how to reduce their personal and team vulnerabilities to a range of threats, from Abduction to Blast Threats, from Vehicle Checkpoints to Weapon Threats, the team focus on current tactics and techniques employed by armed groups to ensure the learning is up to date and appropriate. Delegates will spend time with a former hostage who spent 15 months in captivity.
• First Aid in the Field- this portion of the course is taught in terms of delivering first aid in remote locations. Delegates are taught by international search and rescue medics who will teach the fundamentals of Basic Life Support; primary and secondary survey, managing traumatic injury and sustaining life when definitive care is not immediately available. The First Aid element of the course is a core component of the training and is mainstreamed throughout, not taught in isolation.
Specific Modules covered in our monthly courses are:
Operating Space Update
Personal Situational Awareness
Security and Contingency Planning
Communicating in an emergency
Vehicle Checkpoint Negotiation
Field Health and Wellness
Weapons Effects
Crowd Safety
First Aid
Inter-Personal Aggression
Kidnap Avoidance and Survival
Blast Threats
Journey Plans and Vehicle Safety
Road Traffic Accidents
Field Resilience
Sexual Violence
Post Traumatic Stress
Incident Reporting
Is SAFA for me?
If you are travelling to a very remote area, a humanitarian emergency or medium to high security risk settings, then yes, this is the course for you.
SAFA training will give you the skills to avoid some of the key threats you will face, and the tools to cope if things do go wrong.
Whether the threat be kidnapping, militancy or simply road traffic accidents, SAFA training has it covered, in a pragmatic and approachable way.
How to register:
How can I book?
For more information or to book a place please email Rachel Felton on rachel.felton@locationsafety.com/info@locationsafety.com or call +44 (0) 1273 833070.
SAFA Courses run once to twice a month in UK and regularly in USA, Kenya & Senegal. We also offer an alternative, field level SAFA for national staff.
To view our full course calendar please visit http://www.locationsafety.com/training