Travel Safety

One of our core solutions is our popular and well-known Travel Safety course.

The course intends to encourage travellers to be more aware of the personal responsibility for their safety and security when conducting business travel. Our Travel Safety course aims to promote a culture where business travel risk is taken seriously, resourced adequately, and managed effectively, and where the benefits to the organisation and relevant employees are recognised.

It’s too late to educate travellers after something has gone wrong when travelling. Effective preparation before business travel takes place is essential, so that travellers know whom to contact - and how - should an emergency arise. It also makes sense for business travellers to be made aware of the procedures in preparation for travel, thereby avoiding the potential for unnecessary concern and confusion.

During the training, both the inexperienced and experienced traveller will be given concrete and easy-to-use tools on how to mitigate potential risks and handle different types of critical incidents, including everything from issues with authorities to natural disasters. The training builds upon scientific content and more than two decades of operative experience within the security industry and travelling to foreign environments to add value to employees associated with travel.

The training is designed and delivered to ensure travellers, and individuals with the responsibility for organising travel, travel risk management, and travel assistance can fulfil their responsibilities. The course is applicable for a wide range of participants, from media professionals, charities, international non-governmental organisations, and national/international governmental stakeholders to all companies who find their employees travelling frequently.

While the acute phase of Covid-19 might appear to be over, other significant risks remain for the business traveller and their employers, who are ultimately responsible for employees’ health, safety, and well-being. From cybercrime and natural disasters to civil unrest, terrorism, and mental health, there are many evolving risks which should be factored in before, during, and after any business trip. The content of the training is formed to meet requirements and recommendations for a wide range of travel destinations and gives tools to specific risk treatment requirements for the assessed risks in those areas.

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

• Be able to take responsibility for own safety and security when planning and executing business travel.

• Have the knowledge to understand cultural and ethical aspects of behaviour that minimise the likelihood of offending other cultures, being exposed to crime, or inadvertently committing crimes.

• Apply concrete knowledge and skills, so that if an incident should occur, they are able to de-escalate, find places of safety, and seek help.

• Be informed and aware of personal and proprietary information protection, risk of social engineering, and espionage during business travel.

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

• Risk perception

• Travel preparation

• Digital travel security

• Stress management

• Cultural preparation

• Hotel security

• Transportation safety

• Dealing with authorities

• Critical incident management

• De-escalating communication

Taxonomic structure:
Our well-tested learning process builds around a learning structure that forms bridges between the different topics throughout the course. The learning structure ensures that the participant can implement and share their own experiences and tailor the content to a relevant travel pattern. We test the participants' newly gained skills and knowledge in exercises and small practical activities throughout the training.

The individual in focus:
The material and learning objectives focus on helping the individual to gain knowledge and skills. The individual course participant learns 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.

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 educate regularly and work within their respective fields daily, mostly in medium to high-risk environments. Together with the always ongoing input from Guardians' different departments, we have the unique opportunity to be constantly updated on security trends and threats around the world.

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

Duration:  Our Travel Safety course has a duration of eight hours.

Location:  The training can be delivered in Guardian’s training venue in the heart of Copenhagen, Denmark or anywhere in the world of the client’s choosing.

Included:  Training venue, light breakfast, lunch, and snacks 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.