Spearfish’s online learning platform has been on its own journey over lockdown

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July 19, 2020

So, how do you take your hugely successful bite-size 1-hour travel safety webinars and turn them into something that resembles a “travel safety course”? By making it bigger.

Following on from our bite-size 1-hour travel safety webinars, we pulled our team of instructors together to build an online Travel Safety course capable of sufficiently preparing attendees to “travel safely”.

By taking the key modules from our Hostile Environment Awareness Training (HEAT) courses, re-imagining them for online delivery, we created a 1-day Travel Safety course consisting of 2 x 4-hour sessions split over 2 afternoons.

With a mixture of realistic scenarios, video demonstrations, discussion, and a little bit of instructor magic we delivered as close as you can get to face-to-face training. It will never be HEAT and that’s not what we’re trying to achieve, but it has turned out to be a scalable and cost-effective alternative for organisations. So, if you don’t have the training budget, or aren’t undertaking travel to countries where you deem HEAT necessary, then this might be an alternative for you that will still meet duty of care requirements.

As restrictions are lifted, we’re going to see an increase in movement, but in a very different environment. The key thing is making sure that we don’t lose sight of all the other threats that we face when we travel. The risk levels for many of these threats have actually increased as a result of COVID-19. Road traffic accidents and medical emergencies may now be more complicated as medical infrastructures work to cope with the added burden of COVID-19. There may also be increased crime as people struggle with unemployment, or increased risk of civil unrest towards governments either as a result lock-downs or perceived inaction. We will work through all of the major threats as we go through the course, and we’ve factored in plenty of time to discuss other concerns you may have.

Our HEAT courses will be up and running again in September with a new venue that makes for an excellent training environment, but also compliments our own “Training under COVID-19” policies.

So, if we don’t see you on one of our Travel Safety webinars, then we look forward to seeing you soon on one of HEAT courses.

Safe Travels everyone

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