HEAT Course
An immersive hostile environment training programme designed for personnel operating in fragile, unstable or elevated threat environments where medical emergencies, civil unrest, hostile actors, infrastructure collapse and critical incidents may occur. Delivered in partnership with Comera Risk, the HEAT Course develops practical survival skills, operational awareness, emergency medical response and decision making under pressure through realistic scenario based training.
Duration:5 Days
Awarding Body:HighfieldCertificate: Included
Course Overview
The HEAT Course has been designed to prepare individuals and organisations for the realities of operating within hostile, unpredictable and rapidly evolving environments where support may be delayed, infrastructure limited and threats capable of escalating quickly.
This advanced hostile environment programme combines protective security awareness, operational resilience, emergency medical care, travel risk management and survival decision making into a highly practical and immersive learning experience. Delegates are exposed to realistic scenarios designed to replicate the pressures, uncertainty and challenges often encountered during international deployments, humanitarian operations, media assignments, disaster response and high risk travel.
The programme develops practical understanding surrounding situational awareness, movement planning, behavioural threat recognition, kidnap awareness, indirect fire response, IED awareness, hostile actor incidents, emergency communication and prolonged casualty care. Learners also develop confidence in making informed decisions under stress while maintaining personal safety and supporting others during crisis situations.
HEAT training focuses heavily on practical application, human factors and survivability rather than classroom theory alone. The course is designed to help organisations meet wider duty of care responsibilities while ensuring personnel are better prepared both mentally and operationally for hostile or fragile environments.
Delivered in partnership with Comera Risk, the HEAT programme represents premier hostile environment preparation for organisations operating internationally or within elevated threat environments.
About the Trainer
This course is delivered by experienced operational professionals with backgrounds in policing, emergency medicine, hostile environment operations, protective security, military support, crisis management and emergency planning.
1705 Consultancy and Comera Risk combine decades of frontline operational experience supporting personnel and organisations working across fragile, hostile and disaster affected environments worldwide. Training is immersive, realistic and operationally focused, ensuring delegates develop practical capability, resilience and confidence in environments where rapid decision making and adaptability are essential.
Our instructors understand the realities of hostile environments and deliver scenario based learning designed to reflect the pressures delegates may genuinely encounter overseas.
What Does the Course Include?
- Full hostile environment learning materials
- Practical medical and survival exercises
- Immersive operational scenarios and simulations
- Protective security and travel safety guidance
- Real world deployment discussions and case studies
- Continuous practical assessment throughout the programme
- Participation in operational scenarios and exercises
- Demonstration of practical survival and emergency response skills
- Learners assessed through realistic scenario application
- Delivered by experienced hostile environment professionals
- Practical mentoring and operational instruction throughout
- Real world deployment guidance and insights
- Ongoing support surrounding preparedness and operational resilience
- Certificate of hostile environment training completion
- Evidence of hostile environment preparedness training
- Supports organisational duty of care responsibilities
- Demonstrates practical hostile environment capability
Learning Outcomes
- Hostile environment awareness and operational resilience
- Situational awareness and behavioural threat recognition
- Dynamic risk assessment and survival decision making
- Travel risk management and movement planning
- Kidnap awareness and survival principles
- Terrorism awareness and hostile actor response
- Gunfire, indirect fire and explosive threat reactions
- Emergency communication and crisis coordination
- Hostile environment trauma care and casualty management
- Remote triage and prolonged casualty support
- Personal protection, PPE and survival considerations
- Disaster response and infrastructure failure awareness
- Stress management, resilience and human performance under pressure
- Practical scenario based survival and evacuation exercises
Who Is This Course For?
- NGOs and humanitarian organisations
- Media and journalism professionals
- Government and contractor deployments
- Security and risk management personnel
- Corporate overseas deployment teams
- Disaster response and aid organisations
- Expedition and remote environment teams
- Individuals travelling into elevated threat regions
- Organisations requiring advanced hostile environment preparedness
- Duration: 5 Days
- Level: Level 3
- Delivery: In Person
- Awarding Body: Highfield
- Start Date: Flexible
Ready to Take the Next Step?
Enrol today and start working towards your qualification at a pace that suits you. Our team are on hand to answer any questions.