About the training
International Travel Safety is a unique 2-day training course on safety management and preparation for people who will be traveling abroad. This training aims to enable individuals to understand the importance of having contextual awareness, identifying cultural issues that could be a source of risk and, consequently, the need to gather the necessary information for their safety. The course is particularly suitable for junior humanitarian staff or journalists traveling for field assignments, business, reporting or vacation.
Methodology/trainers
At the customer's premises, the trainer will guide participants through a theoretical and practical course based on a real-life scenario adapted to the customer's objectives, encountering a range of constraints at each phase of the trip. From context and situational awareness to fraud, bribery or sexual violence, participants will address issues of traveler health, hotel safety, public transport at destination and road accidents.
What will you learn?
- Pre-departure logistics research and planning
- Risk analysis at destination
- Where to find information
- How and what to pack - appropriate kit and essential supplies - including checklists
- Safety and security during the trip
- Avoiding the risks of public transport at destination
- How to choose safe accommodation: basic precautions
- Situational awareness: what to consider on arrival
Boost your career
Follow theoretical and practical course modules enriched by current feedback from the field.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
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