Hostile Environment Awareness Training - Denmark

Our Hostile Environment Awareness Training (HEAT) is one of Guardian’s core services. The course gives experienced and non-experienced travellers easily used tools and specialised knowledge, ensuring that every possible threat is easily mitigated when travelling in high to extreme-risk environments. The training content builds upon a scientific basis as well as more than two decades of operative experience within the security industry.

We conduct around 20-25 HEAT courses per year and dozens of shorter courses. Recently we have experienced an increase in demand both in Scandinavia and other regions. Our clients come from various organisations including government, NGOs, media and private businesses. The growth in demand for our HEAT services stems from our uncompromising focus on delivering quality training that has an actual impact on the participants’ awareness and behaviour.

The satisfaction of the course participants is key to us, and we work tirelessly to improve and adapt to new knowledge. We are proud to have an average user satisfaction score of 9.3/10 for the courses conducted in 2022.

Our HEAT course is designed for individual travellers from various sectors. From media professionals, charities, international non-governmental organisations, and national/international governmental stakeholders as well as companies who find their employees travelling in unfamiliar and often hostile locations. We recommend our HEAT course before all travels going to high and extreme-risk areas.

The focus of our highly recommended HEAT course is to ensure that our participants can get the job done, whilst having an appreciation of the risks and threats associated with travel to elevated-risk environments. The advanced first-aid training provided at the course is of high priority and provides the traveller with the skills to potentially save lives in desolate areas.

Key learning objectives – at the end of the course the participants will:

• Be able to account for potential security risks, and hereby raise awareness of the influence on their safety

• Encourage and motivate to take responsibility for your safety and security when planning and executing travels to high-risk areas

• Apply concrete knowledge and skills to prevent and handle critical situations in hostile environments

• Be able to determine the advantages and disadvantages of impending actions and thereby act appropriately in known and unknown situations

• Risk Perception

• Travel Preparation

• Digital travel security

• Stress management

• De-escalating communication

• Cultural preparation

• Hostage survival

• Theft & Robbery

• Dealing with authorities

• Transportation safety

• Mass casualty attack

• Critical incidents

• Conduct in line of fire

• Advanced first aid

• Peer support

• Gender awareness

• Hotel security

Taxonomic structure:
Our well-tested learning process builds on a 3-phase methodology of crawl, walk, and run to get the full perspective of the learning objectives. We test the participants' newly gained skills in realistic scenario training using extensive roleplay.
    

The individual in focus:
The material and learning objectives focus on the individual gaining knowledge and skills. The individual course participant gains learning by participating in interactive group work, to create dialogue and reflection. The intention is to get the individual participant to engage and commit to the learning process through communication and cooperation with the other participants. By having this approach, we provide the opportunity for knowledge and experience sharing, to achieve greater depth in the learning outcome.

Learning environments:
We use alternating learning environments, role plays, and practical exercises built on scientific and experience-based knowledge to reflect our vision of developing skills that can be converted to different locations and cultural settings.

At Guardian, we strive to deliver the best, most realistic, and most relevant content possible in our courses. When striving to do so, we require a unique skillset from our instructors. We only use instructors with extensive knowledge and experience in the field of travel security. Our trainers not only educate regularly but also work within their respective fields daily, mostly in high to extreme-risk environments which enables us to always have an up-to-date basis for our training courses. 

This course can be delivered in Danish and English to meet the needs of the participants.

Duration:  Our HEAT course has a duration of three days. Starting at 9 am on the first day and ending at 5:30 pm on the last day of the course. It is our recommendation and intention that the participant stays at the location of the course to gain the full perspective of the experience.

Location: The training can be delivered in one of Guardian’s training venues in Denmark and Norway or anywhere in the world of the client’s choosing.

Included:  Training venue, accommodation, and catering during the course.

We offer courses with open registration. Dates for our open courses are available on this page. 

To register, click register on the course you like to attend and fill in the following:

• Name of participant

• Organisation

• E-mail

• Point of contact - name and E-mail

• Billing information

Quality assurance

• Guardian is ISO 9001:2015 certified within the scope of security risk management in accordance with the requirement specification set up by the Danish Association of Security Providers (SikkerhedsBranchen).
• Guardian ensures that the persons doing work under its control that affects the performance and effectiveness of the quality management system are competent based on appropriate education, training and experience.
• Guardian retains the appropriate documentation as evidence of its employees’ competencies.
• All employees doing work under Guardian’s control live up to the requirements of:

- Minimum of two days’ further education per year

- Criminal record less than one-year-old

Course certification

All participants who complete the course will be issued a certificate with a validity of three years.