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It is essential to have the right safety and security training for working in fragile or insecure contexts. This training enables participants to exercise caution so they can reduce and prevent risks and take well-considered action in dangerous situations. We offer a range of safety and security training courses to suit different situations and different kinds of previous experience:
Intensive - safety and security training (classroom training, five days):
- Risk and security analysis
- Risk prevention
- Possible scopes of action in violent and critical situations (how to behave when under fire, sudden kidnappings and being held hostage, natural disasters, attacks)
- Tactical emergency treatment of life-threatening injuries
- Dealing with stress due to dangerous situations
- Mix of theoretical input and numerous scenarios and role plays in which you can try out and reflect upon your behavioural patterns
The learning services can be booked in German or English.
Basic – safety and security training (classroom training, 2.5 days):
- Dangers, threats and preventive measures (e.g. how to behave at checkpoints)
- Strategies for dealing with danger
- Scope of action in violent situations (personal attack, burglary, kidnapping etc.)
- A mixture of theoretical input and a large number of practical units for exploring various scenarios and reflecting on your own strategies
The learning services can be booked in German or English.
Refresher Sicherheit (digital, 1 Tag):
- Refreshing your safety-relevant knowledge and strategies
- Topics from basic and intensive safety and security courses are repeated and re-examined as required
- Condition of participation: completion of one of our safety & security trainings (classroom training) in the past
- This course is recommended (for example) when participants expect to leave for another assignment abroad, or as a refresher course.
The learning services can be booked in German or English.
Finding the right safety and security training course
Additional information
If you have not yet attended a safety and security training course, you should take one of our in-person safety and security courses. Our in-person courses include both theoretical input and practical knowledge and give participants the chance to play out safety-relevant behaviours in numerous simulations and scenarios, and reflect on the results together.
If you have already completed an in-person course, e.g. for a previous period abroad, or you want to refresh your knowledge, we recommend taking a one-cay refresher course in safety and security. The digital format makes it easy to integrate it into your work routine. If your last safety and security training course was more than 10 years ago, we recommend attending an in-person course.
Deciding between the basic and intensive safety and security training courses depends most of all on your assignment location. We recommend a basic safety and security training course if you are going to an insecure region. The intensive safety and security training course is relevant in particular for regions with a much greater security risk, such as an increased risk of kidnapping or attacks, or the danger of coming under fire.
It is advisable to discuss this with your seconding organisation in order to decide which course is the most suitable for you. Indicators for assessing the security situation can help in making this decision (see for example the INFORM index below).
Your organisation may have specific requirements concerning when you have to complete which training course. As a GIZ staff member, please comply with the P+R rules and the requirements of the Corporate Security Unit.
Please note that we are not permitted to make this decision for you, owing to insurance issues and the requirements of your organisation.
For GIZ: Requirements of the Corporate Security Unit // INFORM index
The 2.5-day safety and security training course starts with a personal risk analysis as the basis for learning how to take preventive measures. You will practise acting with caution in dangerous situations. The course includes role plays in which you will play the parts of a pedestrian and a car user. In both training courses you will play the roles of affected people and perpetrators so that you experience how much stress is involved and how effective your own safety strategies are. Both courses are tailored to the international cooperation context.
The five-day intensive safety and security training course covers the following additional topics: conflicts, violence and fragility, radio communication, dealing with the presence of large numbers of weapons, firefighting and dealing with stress. The topics of kidnapping and hostage-taking, mines, and what to do when under fire/attacks are threatened are handled more intensively and realistically than in the 2.5-day safety and security training. The course also includes units on tactical emergency treatment of life-threatening injuries.
