Stay Safe Training Urban Survival for “Yellow/Green Country Deployment” (2.5 days)

HDFF’s Stay Safe Training (SST) Urban Survival is a basic safety training addressing primarily implementing personnel but also short-term mission/business travellers as well as
management personnel safety needs of (I)NGO, media, Governmental and UN organisations personnel as well as corporate personnel, based or travelling into or through
so-called “Yellow or Green Countries” (medium or low risk level countries or deemed as such by insurances and/or foreign service advisories). 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 of organisations with field operations or intensive business travel. The “SST Urban Survival” training will be conducted by experienced and culturally sensitive trainers in an utmost safe way for participants taking in consideration an extremely high level of participatory activities and has in its core several practical simulations.

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 and in urban vicinities as well as related stress levels, e.g. situational awareness including theft and fraud and dealing with scams, journey planning and management, hotel accommodation security, dealing with aggression and violent crime including “Blitz Abduction”, Stress Management, active self-defence including gender-based security, active shooter, evacuation and firefighting.
• To understand and utilise practical tips to protect yourself during travel and in urban working environments.