Hostile environment training for media

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This course is designed to assist media teams, free-lance  journalists, NGO’s and corporate clients to prepare for and manage risk while working in complex, dynamic and potentially hostile and austere situations and environments. This program is delivered through a mixture of lectures, discussion groups, workshops, practical evolutions and exercises.  The program focuses on preparation and planning, threat identification, risk mitigation strategies, self-sufficiency, situational awareness and trauma management.  

Course duration: 2 days

The course will include, but not limited to the following.

• Planning and preparation
• Security, communications and contingency planning
• Selection of equipment
• Personal preparation and security
• Travel safety
• Ballistic awareness and protection
• Navigation
• Public disorders
• Improvised and purpose-built explosive devices
• Explosive remnants of war 
• Working with conventional and non-conventional forces
• Kidnap avoidance and captivity survival
• Information security
• Working in disaster zones
• Scene safety
• Casualty care under fire
• First-Aid
• Self help
• Extraction techniques
• Psychological First-Aid
• Respirators (selection, use, donning/doffing)