Defensive driving - SAHCO Consulting

Our 3-day training course in defensive driving in hostile environments is specially designed by field experts and specialists in operations in isolated environments. It is designed to improve the driving skills of personnel deployed in high-risk areas. It is aimed at drivers for humanitarian or international organizations, drivers for diplomatic representations and, more generally, journalists or actors in private companies. At a time when attacks and incidents targeting the transport and convoys of various players in the field are multiplying, it is important for them to take proactive measures to ensure that their drivers are trained and prepared to work in high-risk, dangerous environments.

About the training

Advanced training for vehicle drivers
Learn the rules of defensive driving, safe driving practices, protocols for driving in hostile environments, vehicle control and emergency procedures.
Based on realistic scenarios and case studies

Main objectives

Reduce risks by anticipating hazardous situations and environments, unfavorable conditions and terrain, or driving incidents.
Improvement: planning and preparing for trips and dealing with emergency situations.
Acquire techniques/know-how to react to situations and incidents likely to arise during field missions.

Methodology/ trainers

SAHCO works with expert trainers who are specialists in their fields, practitioners with extensive field experience who give participants the confidence and skills to act outside their comfort zones.

What will you learn?

The training is situation-based, with realistic simulations to keep you immersed throughout. SAHCO Consulting leads participants to understand their individual role in ensuring their own safety as well as that of the whole team.

Preparing your vehicle and route
Anticipating dangerous situations and observing the environment
Mastering driving and reflexes
Safety and defensive driving training (SDDT
4×4 armoured/unarmoured vehicles
Advanced and offensive driving training
Traumatic emergency first aid protocol to prepare for life-threatening emergencies
Anticipate potential road accident situations.
Respond to emergency driving situations
Develop effective vehicle observation and control skills
Demonstrate low-risk driving techniques.
Analyze, anticipate and mitigate safety and security risks.
Vehicle mechanics and driving science
Vehicle types and considerations
Vehicle checks, equipment and emergency preparedness
Anticipating attacks and preventing ambushes
Evasive maneuvers and concepts on different vehicles
Accident prevention, emergency braking and obstacle avoidance
High-speed vehicle maneuvers, braking techniques and skid control
2-point evasion and 180° turning techniques

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Consultant testimonies

I had low expectations for this HEAT training with SAHCO Consulting. I think it's one of the most useful courses I've attended, and it covered more topics than I expected. In addition, I was expecting not to be able to get fully involved in the simulations, or to be too anxious. On the contrary, the instructors and actors made the training very realistic, and many of the simulations took me out of my comfort zone, but never to the point where I couldn't handle it.

Gulfidan

Program manager

Formation HEAT

SAHCO Consulting's trainings and instructors are very professional and relevant to our work as humanitarian workers; I liked the fact that the instructors did not have military experience, but were senior humanitarian staff with years of experience in complex humanitarian environments and crises; I felt that I was understood in terms of the mentality and challenges we face in the field.

Eleonora

Gbv/cp program manager

I had the opportunity to attend a HEAT session delivered by Sahco Consulting, with whom we work in West Africa. The training is really adapted to humanitarian actors thanks to an approach based on our principles. This HEAT is well-balanced in the intensity of the learning exercises, and realistic in the scenarios and simulations of incidents we may encounter in the field. The trainers are professional, technically and humanitarian experienced, pedagogical, and flexible on the content of the training, allowing us to focus on the aspects we need to work on. All this in an excellent atmosphere of open collaboration.

Romain

Regional security manager

Indeed, this training course was very rich from the outset, with its very special teaching methodology, a perfect blend of practice and very realistic simulations; hats off to the trainers who were simply excellent. This training remains indispensable for us humanitarians living and working in hostile zones with volatile security situations. This training is beneficial on a personal, professional and even community level.

Benoit

Human rights activist