Armadillo at Large

For humanitarian workers around the world, understanding personal safety and security is essential. Learn the threats confronting you, how to mitigate them, and how to react if the worst occurs.

This Personal Safety and Security course has been developed to fit the needs of humanitarian workers, and Armadillo’s experienced consultants cover all aspects of security training in insecure and hazardous environments.

All Armadillo instructors are current field practitioners who spend the majority of their time in practical implementation—not just training. We constantly update our personal skills and build our experience. As a result, the course is practical, not just theoretical.

Objectives

• To develop a practical understanding of the safety and security process so that you are aware of your individual responsibilities, and how you contribute to the security of your organisation.
• To understand the current threats to humanitarian workers, and how to recognise and minimise your vulnerability to them.
• To reduce personal risks through the use of a coherent security strategy and understanding of how to (and how not to) behave.

Topics Covered

Security Management Framework

• Context. How does your perspective, and the perspective of others, affect your security environment?
• Risks, threats, and vulnerability. What puts you and others in danger, and how can you minimise your vulnerability in a high-risk environment?
• Personal Preparedness. What’s in your quick run bag?
• Reporting security incidents so that you can contribute to the security of your agency and other humanitarian actors.

Individual Contingency Planning. What to do:

• Hostage survival techniques. What to do to increase your chances of surviving kidnapping or abduction.
• Explosive Remnants of War. Recognising the presence of UXO, landmines, and cluster munitions.
• Improvised Explosive Devices. What they look like, where they might be, and what to do if they go off.
• Weapons Effects. Small arms, indirect fire, artillery, and air attacks.
• Criminality. Mugging, theft, car jacking, and assault.
• Checkpoints—legal and illegal. How to get through them more safely.
• Ambush. What exactly it is, how it differs from other attacks, and what to do if it happens to you.
• Riots and Civil Disorder. Extracting yourself from a potentially dangerous situation.
• Fire and Carbon Monoxide Risks. Recognising the signs and how to fix them.

Our training is developed for you, and each course is developed with the needs of its participants in mind. If you or your agency has specific needs or requests, we are happy to include them in our training whenever possible.

Contact us for more information on this course.