HEAT Urban Survival for “Yellow/Green” Country Deployment

HDFF’s Hostile Environment Awareness Training (HEAT) Urban Survival is a basic safety training designed for implementing personnel, short-term mission/business travelers, and management staff from (I)NGOs, media, governmental and UN organizations, and corporations. It addresses the safety needs of individuals based in or traveling to “Yellow or Green Countries,” which are considered medium or low-risk areas as classified by insurance and foreign service advisories. The training equips participants with essential skills to navigate such environments safely and effectively, ensuring preparedness for a range of potential risks. The training aims to increase participants’ safety and security awareness, as well as related “urban jungle survival” skills in hostile travel and/or urban working environments.

The training is useful for all personnel with field operations or intensive business travel. The “HEAT Urban Survival” training will be conducted by experienced and culturally sensitive trainers. It is highly participatory and primarily scenario-based.

Objectives:

– To develop an urban environment survival mindset that increases proactive and reactive response capabilities in unknown or turned-hostile travel and urban work environments.
– To develop ideas in coping with dangers on the move in urban vicinities and the related stress levels, e.g. situational awareness including theft, fraud, dealing with scams, journey planning, and management, hotel accommodation security, dealing with aggression and violent crime including “Blitz Abduction”, stress management, active self-defense incl. gender-based security, active shooter, evacuation, and firefighting.
– To understand and utilize practical tips to protect yourself while traveling in urban working environments.