Hostile Environment Awareness Training (HEAT)
The underlying assumptions on which the course is based are as follows: hostile environment awareness plays an important role in the effectiveness and impact of the mission; it is also a chief responsibility that each seconding or contracting actor has vis-à-vis the personnel deployed (“duty of care”). Hostile environment awareness is essential to coping with internal and external security threats that an international mission can likely face on the ground and is conducive to: a) enhancing the resilience of personnel when working in hazardous environments; b) increasing the understanding of proactive security and of basic field measures to be taken before, during and after a mission in a conflict zone; c) providing personnel with the basic tools and techniques needed to avoid potentially dangerous situations or to cope adequately with actual endangering situations in the field.
