We teach to survive where others give up
Protect yourself, your team and your loved ones. We will prepare you for the most extreme situations
We are trusted by international organizations, NGOs and UN agencies:
We help save lives in risky situations
Survival Training (HEAT)
Since 2016, we have been training humanitarian organizations, journalists and activists on how to act in dangerous conditions. Our trainings are based on real-life experience in a war zone.
How to prepare a team for a trip to a war zone?
We teach how to act during shelling, mine danger and kidnapping.
What to do if you are under shelling?
We teach how to act during shelling, mine danger and kidnapping.
Over 300 trainings in 8 years
200+
humanitarian missions supported
40%
of participants returned for further training
3x
3x increase in tactical medicine training in 2023.
Preparing for danger starts with the right questions
What is HEAT training and who needs it?
HEAT (Hostile Environment Awareness Training) is a training course for people working in high-risk areas, including war zones. Our training courses are suitable for:
1. Employees of international organizations and NGOs.
2. Media representatives.
3. Volunteers and humanitarian workers.
4. People working in high-risk regions.
What does the training program include?
The training comprises both theoretical and practical components, with a primary focus on practice.
Participants will gain skills in:
– Properly applying a tourniquet and stopping massive bleeding.
– Basics of cardiopulmonary resuscitation.
– Mine safety rules.
– Providing first aid in case of road accidents.
– Proper use of a fire extinguisher.
– Other skills.
Do the trainers have real experience?
Octopussecurity trainers have an experience in security work for international non-governmental organizations and the mass-media as well, along with they are constantly involved in planning and implementing trips to dangerous places, also providing medical assistance and medical evacuation in close proximity to the contact line.
Octopussecurity has a great amount of transport facilities, actors, equipment, props, weapon dummies and all the necessary attributes to model various situations as close as possible to real life and other training exercises.
We have conducted over three hundred trainings on HEAT, SSAFE, First Aid, Tactical Medicine, PSEAH and Safeguarding for various international NGOs, public organizations, UN agencies (in cooperation with UNDSS).
