Explosive Safety Training

Choose the level your role requires

Both routes share the same priority — keeping people safe in environments where explosive threats may be present. The difference is depth and responsibility: the operational route builds full user-level C-IED capability and structured actions-on, while the awareness route equips non-security teams to recognise, avoid and report hazards safely.

This ten-day residential programme delivers full user-level C-IED training for security personnel, corporate field teams and government-support staff operating in high-risk environments. The structure allows for in-depth recognition training, structured actions-on, ground-sign analysis, casualty management, emergency-service coordination and immersive scenario work.

Operational skills & practical application

The 5Cs & Actions-On

Learners rehearse the complete 5Cs alongside full Actions-On for suspected devices, for both foot and vehicle movement.

Medical & casualty management

Medical preparedness is strengthened through accredited Basic Life Support (BLS) and CPR, combined with explosive-incident trauma management. Learners develop competency in catastrophic bleeding control — including tourniquets, wound packing and improvised methods — alongside casualty extraction from hazardous areas and Helicopter Landing Site (HLS) selection for aerial evacuation. Scenario-driven exercises reinforce recognition, judgement and communication under pressure, including roadside anomalies, VBIED indicators, victim-operated devices, urban concealment and community-pattern changes.

Competencies include

• Recognition of IED and mine types and triggers
• Ground-sign identification and environmental indicators
• Full application of the 5Cs
• Actions-On for foot and vehicle movement
• Route assessment and safe-movement planning
• Minefield indicators and Mine Strike Drills
• Incident Command Point (ICP) selection
• Safe cordon control and standoff management
• Hostile reconnaissance and behavioural indicators
• Accredited Basic Life Support (BLS)
• Accredited CPR
• Catastrophic bleeding control (tourniquet & wound packing)
• Casualty extraction and evacuation
• HLS selection
• Structured reporting and radio discipline
• Emergency-service coordination and briefing

Personnel are equipped to operate safely, confidently and professionally in environments where IED and mine threats exist.

Non-operational UXO & IED awareness for NGO, media and civilian teams. The programme provides NGO staff, journalists, humanitarian workers and civilian teams with the essential knowledge to recognise and avoid explosive hazards in unstable regions. Unlike operational C-IED courses, it focuses strictly on awareness, safe behaviour, calm withdrawal and clear communication — without security-sector drills or technical actions.

Learners study simple indicators of IEDs and UXO, including visible anomalies, disturbed ground, unusual objects, placement patterns and changes in community behaviour. The programme reinforces safe civilian reactions — stopping movement, keeping distance, avoiding contact with the environment, withdrawing safely and reporting through appropriate channels. Instruction also covers travel safety, checkpoint approach behaviour, accommodation movements and cultural considerations that influence exposure to risk, developing calm decision-making and clear communication without introducing tactical responsibilities.

Competencies include

• Recognition of basic UXO and IED indicators
• Understanding simple placement patterns and environmental cues
• Safe civilian withdrawal procedures
• Travel and movement safety for NGO/civilian teams
• Behavioural indicators of potential hostile activity
• Communication and reporting for non-security roles
• Awareness of cultural and community-pattern changes
• Calm response to sudden environmental shifts

Graduates are able to operate safely and responsibly in humanitarian, media or development roles where explosive hazards may exist.

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