Hostile Environment and First Aid Training (HEFAT)
Basic and refresher courses available over 2, 3 and 4 days
Also known as Hostile Environment Training (HET) or Hostile Environment Awareness Training (HEAT). Our hostile environment and first aid training courses are the leading courses to prepare journalists and other programme makers for working in hostile environments and other high risk situations.
Our courses have been developed and continuously refined in close collaboration with our key clients including BBC, ITN, Channel 4, CNN, NBC, Washington Post, Alaraby TV, Global Radio and many more. Our courses are endorsed by the Rory Peck Trust and the Frontline Club through whom we offer bursaries for freelancers.
Courses
- 4 Day Full Course
The course follows a simple to complex training methodology for those travelling to and working in high risk and fragile environments. - Refresher Courses
For those who have completed a full course previously the training will updated and sharpen first aid and security skills and allow for consolidation and practice time.
Courses comprise of classroom and group discussion work interspersed with realistic exercises to build skills and confidence:
Medical
Our medical training equips delegates to deal with a range of traumatic injuries likely in hostile environments as well as how to maintain good health and hygiene in remote or austere locations. Medical subjects covered include: travel and environmental health, basic life support and AED, unconscious casualty and secondary survey; catastrophic bleeding and ballistic wounds; fractures, splinting casualty handling; triage and casualty simulation exercises.
Security
The hostile environment training includes personal and group deployment planning, threat evaluation and risk assessment; personal security and conflict management; vehicle and travel security; ballistics, mines and IED awareness; dealing with local authorities and factions; avoiding and surviving kidnap or detention; living and working in disaster areas; cyber security; and recognising and dealing with post-traumatic stress.
Our Venue
Salomons Estate is an impressive Victorian mansion two miles outside the spa town of Royal Tunbridge Wells. Designed by Decimus Burton, the house sits in 36 acres of gardens, parkland and woods, which provide our immediate indoor and outdoor training locations.
Delegates are accommodated in comfortable and newly decorated, individual, ensuite bedrooms on site and have all meals in the Salomons restaurant. Tonbridge and Tunbridge Wells rail stations are within 3 miles.
Our larger scenarios are run at Pippingford Park in Ashdown Forest 20 mins drive away. This 875 acre site allows us to run a day long realistic, mobile news gathering exercise.
