You need employees who perform at all times, focused on the tasks in hand. Uncertainty about their abilities and anxiety about their personal safety can impact on their performance.

Scott Owen Associates offers bespoke training to cover your needs and those of your workforce.
Employers are responsible for ensuring that their employees are fully prepared for the threats they may encounter, individually and as a team, and that they are equipped with the appropriate tools and know-how. This can only be achieved through expert training.

Scott Owen Associates prepare personnel for potentially life-threatening situations.

Working with you, we conduct a training needs analysis, based on your operation's location, your expectations, and your team's individual motivations and abilities. From here we design your course. The course structure and training packages are carefully planned to ensure that clear objectives are met. Once candidates have completed the course, its suitability is reviewed, updated and developed, as required.

Scott Owen Associates follows industry best practice in the development and delivery of its courses. We strive to ensure that our experts are the best in their field, bringing with them the very latest thinking in their skill's area. We are the acknowledged leaders in Hostile Environment training and we apply our experience at this level through all our courses, to give you the confidence you need.

Our training courses are not only bespoke, but also flexible, being run either in excellent training facilities in the UK and US or from a location of your choosing at very short notice.

If required, we can adapt our courses to be delivered anywhere, including in our clients' offices. Our courses are modular and can be quickly tailored to meet changes in location, facilities and time available.

Hostile environments – Training

Our Hostile Environments courses draw on up-to-date intelligence analysis and our understanding of current threats and risks you might face when travelling or working in regions of civil unrest, isolated fighting or all-out war.

Originally developed for the world's news media, these courses are now very popular and relevant for our corporate and government clients, as well as aid agencies. The aim of our courses is to give your workforce the knowledge and capability to react with confidence in challenging and threatening situations. Scott Owen Associates' Hostile Environment Instructors are unmatched in their expertise in this area of training, and it is our policy to ensure one of the instructors on each course has recent experience in the country around which the course is based.

Medical training

Employers who are responsible for placing personnel in difficult or dangerous environments must ensure their people are prepared for any eventuality.

The swift handling of a medical crisis can be a matter of life and death. Scott Owen Associates' medical training courses are individually designed to suit your working environment.

Scott Owen Associates' medical training team has frontline paramedical experience in the tropics, desert and Polar Regions. With professional backgrounds in emergency medical care, our instructors are uniquely qualified to provide training with a depth of experience rarely available elsewhere.

This level of expertise allows us to develop courses to cover a broad range of medical requirements, from first aid at work and road traffic collision awareness through to travel and expedition medicine and dealing with trauma in hostile environments.

All content is in line with current resuscitation protocols as adopted by the International Resuscitation Council and the European Resuscitation Council.