Training activities focus on a progressive series of live scenarios in which participants have the opportunity to acquire skills and knowledge and apply lessons learned in a safe yet challenging training environment. This may include training to both prevent and respond to a range of threats and attacks including:

• Active armed offender (including active shooter and knife attack)
• Kidnapping for ransom and resistance to interrogation
• Mass casualty event including motor-vehicle accident
• Robbery and mugging
• Civil unrest including violent protest and riot
• Siege
• Vehicle ambush
• Terrorism
• Weapons and blast threats
• Interpersonal violence
• Sexual assault

Specific content included in a HEAT course may be drawn from a range of areas including:

• Cultural awareness
• Situational awareness
• High Risk planning and preparation (including working with security providers)
• First aid and Tactical Emergency Casualty Care (TECC)
• Personal security and protection strategy
• Travel safety (including transport, hotel, communications, vehicle security)
• Threat avoidance measures (including surveillance awareness)
• Threat recognition and response (including escape, de-escalation and protective measures)
• Self-defence tactics and skills
• Firearms/weapons familiarisation, recognition, and safe handling
• Scenario-based training

What You’ll Gain:

• Practical strategies for situational awareness and threat response
• Immersive, realistic training scenarios tailored to the clients’ operational context and threat profile
• Personal safety, survival, and emergency preparedness
• Real-world knowledge and experience to make you safer while on deployment to a potentially hostile environment