What is S.C.A.R.E.D Training? S.C.A.R.E.D is what we use to risk assess all our oversea and UK based expeditions and events. Basically any operations which involves working in remote and hostile environments is put through the S.C.A.R.E.D checklist during the planning phase and then is further used to dynamic risk assess and to deal with any emergency.
S.C.A.R.E.D The Meaning
- S – Situational Awareness
- C – Communication
- A – Accidents and Injuries (Most likely)
- R – Response
- E – Evacuation
- D – Decision Making
We will train you to use this simple formular to ensure you cover all major eventualities before deploying or going live on an event.
Situational Awareness
Situational Awareness, is exactly that. We will make sure you understand and know the importance of understanding where you are going. What is the political status, weather, wildlife, local cultures, transport inferstruction and terrain. Have you got the appropriate documentation, map, currency and anything else. Our training, shows the best ways to get this information, how to understand it and having procedures ensure nothing is missed.
Communication
Ensuring that you have a robust communication strategy. We will look at all options available and how best to source them, budget and use. Knowing the limitations of each item and having a number of plans.
Accidents and Injuries
Here we look at the where you are going, what you are doing and who you are taking. We use this information to come up with most likely injuries and accidents that our party are most likely to come across and plan to prepare for these. If we are going into high altitude we need to prepare for altitude sickness. If we are going into areas of extremely heat or cold we need to prepare for these.
This is the section of the S.C.A.R.E.D Training that takes up the majority of the time. We will look at our kit, what we can carry, how to use the items and spend each day running through remote first aid skills and scenario based incident management and first aid delivery.
Response
Before you deploy or start an event, you need to know what will our response look like. Will it be professional, will you have to pay and most important. What timescales are we looking at. This information is Vitale in the planning and will dictate what extra kit we will have to carry.
STVE Training 