EBU
International Safety Training
PSAT, Pakistan - Afghanistan January / February
2005
HEST
- Hostile Environment Safety Training (ASIA)-
Training Venues -
Thailand's remote Kaho Yai
National Park (90 minutes east of Bangkok), &
Australia's Hawkesbury River island area (40 minutes north east
of Sydney)
HEST Course development
Developed in conjunction with training partner
EBU in January 2005.
It is a course that fits with the demanding work of news teams.
Through a mix of hands-on exercises, presentations, discussions
and role plays, delegates are trained during four days on how to
anticipate danger and how to overcome the ensuing risks. This course
is directed by Tony Loughran (former head of BBC High Risk), with
22yrs experience of working in hostile environments, and is a must
for in-house reporters and freelance who work for Radio and Television.
ZI has taken the past 18months to develop this unique training course
and a series of courses are planned to be run in Thailand's Kaho
Yai National Park, and Australia's outback from 2005 onwards.
In 2004 Loughran consulted with the EBU International Training team
and a number of staff based in the Asia region and all agreed that
this form of training is desperately needed and timely for this
part of the world.
ZI would like to reiterate EBU's fundamental training principles
which are engrained in any of its specialist OHS training courses.
1. The course should give journalists
the means to better evaluate the risks they face while working
in war zones but should not turn them into soldiers or doctors.
2. The course must be dynamic, interesting
and useful, and should concentrate on key aspects of security.
3. The journalists are put into real
time situations: they are confronted with danger while doing their
job. They must cover an event for their radio or television and
work under time pressure: i.e. "making the 1800 feed".
4. The course should help reporters
to take the right decisions swiftly while managing stress. An
error of judgment can be fatal to their health & safety and
even their life, and that of those who work with them.
5.
Will ensure all delegates are competent
to deploy and report on any Natural Disasters: (Earthquakes, Tsunami's,
Hurricane's). It will also ensure delegates and their respective
company's can operate with a suitable "Crisis Management"
strategy plan.
HEST is a practical and realistic
course recreating a disaster and war zone environment. To sum up,
it is undeniably the responsibility of Editors in Chief to provide
their journalists with good training if they are to be sent to report
from any war zone or hostile environment.
Figures speak for themselves as each year more and more media staff
are injured and die in the field.
© ZI & EBU International Training – Jan 2005
Information regarding the HEST 4 day course can be
obtained by e-mailing:
Tony
Loughran (ZI OHS Training Director)
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PSAT
(Personal Security Awareness Training)
This unique course can be delivered between
1 - 4 days depending on the experience of the delegate and the outcome
of the clients "Training Needs Analysis".
It can be tailored and run for any number of delegates anywhere
in the world.
The course is mainly aimed at staff who as a rule do not travel
to war zones, but during the course of their work they may be assigned
to a high risk security
area. (Also refer to ZI Country Risk Analysis File).
Note: anyone travelling to a war zone or area of higher risk should
attend the HEST course (refer to section above)
To ensure they are equipped with the correct knowledge and equipment
it is recommended that all staff and freelancers attend at least
1 days PSAT training, and core subjects can be chosen from the following
list:
- Planning
and Preparation (Crisis Management - Disaster Planning)
- Building
Security
- Vehicle
Security
- Medical
(basic knowledge and skills)
- Conflict
Management
- Public
Order
- Ballistics,
effective ranges and protective cover
- Medical
- (Ballistic and Blast injury management)
- Incident
Investigation
- Operational
de-briefing - Trauma councelling
For further details regarding any of the above courses
please
e-mail: Tony
Loughran (ZI Training Director)
Note:
ZI will be running a PSAT course in Pakistan - Afghanistan during
the months of January / February. The outcome of the training will
be published here in the first week of Feb
