SAFE Overseas / SAFE+ Hostile Environment Training
Designed for people travelling, working or deploying overseas, the SAFE course provides practical preparation for operating safely and confidently in unfamiliar, challenging and potentially hostile environments.
Delivered through a combination of classroom learning, realistic scenarios and practical exercises, the course develops the awareness, decision making and personal safety skills needed to recognise threats, reduce exposure to risk and respond effectively when situations deteriorate.
Suitable for journalists, media teams, charities, NGOs, humanitarian organisations, corporate travellers, researchers, expedition teams and anyone whose work may take them into higher risk environments.
What You’ll Learn
- Understanding the threats and risks associated with overseas travel and deployment
- Pre-deployment planning, preparation and personal security
- Situational awareness and recognising changes in threat
- Journey management and safer movement in unfamiliar environments
- Accommodation and hotel security
- Personal safety and managing confrontation
- Hostile surveillance, suspicious behaviour and threat indicators
- Responding to civil unrest, disorder and rapidly changing security situations
- Checkpoints, detention and interaction with authorities
- Kidnap and abduction awareness
- Managing incidents, emergencies and communications
- Operating around major incidents and disaster environments
- Practical first aid and casualty management in challenging environments
- Developing contingency, evacuation and emergency plans
- Applying practical techniques through realistic scenario based exercises
Course Details
📅 Duration: 3 Days SAFE with an optional fourth day to complete SAFE+
👨🏫 Delivery: Primarily practical, instructor led training combining classroom learning with realistic scenarios and exercises
🌍 Suitable For: Media and journalists, NGOs, charities, humanitarian organisations, corporate travellers, security professionals, researchers and personnel deploying overseas
🏅 Award Body: Highfield Qualifications
📋 Certification: Accredited certification following successful completion
🎓 SAFE+: Optional additional day providing enhanced practical training and capability development
👤 Entry Requirements: No previous hostile environment training required
📍 Delivery: Available as scheduled open courses or closed courses for organisations and teams across the UK and internationally
💷 Price: £1750+VAT
Delivered by 1705 Consultancy’s specialist practitioners with extensive real world experience across policing, counter terrorism, protective security, incident command, emergency response and risk management.
The emphasis throughout is on practical application. Learners are placed into realistic situations where they must assess what is happening, make decisions and apply the skills they have developed rather than simply learning theory in a classroom.
For organisations deploying personnel overseas, courses can also be tailored around the destination, operating environment, organisational risk profile and likely threats faced by the team.
Prepare before you deploy.
Places on open courses are limited. Contact 1705 Consultancy to discuss individual places, closed organisational courses or bespoke SAFE training for your team.
