John Jacobs is an experienced and qualified electronics engineer. His working experience has always been in 'severe environments', ranging from oceanographic instrumentation to ruggedised radio communications systems. In 20 years of radio communications experience he has worked throughout the EMEA region, using both English and French in support of humanitarian organisations, government departments, private security companies and UN agencies.

Although he worked for Codan for thirteen years he is brand independent. As well as Codan radios, he is familiar with Barrett, Motorola, Tait and many other manufacturers . He will always select the equipment that best suits your needs and can train on a large range of radio communications products.

New Course:
Personal Safety & Security with Radio Communications and First Aid

This training course is designed to equip humanitarian field workers with skills to prevent and correctly respond to security and safety threats.

The course combines the usual Safety and Security training but goes further by adding First Aid and Radio Communications modules so that field workers have all the tools necessary to deliver humanitarian programmes in an insecure environment.

This course has been specifically designed by experienced field workers and combines a mix of classroom based theoretical learning with practical simulations, reinforcing the learning process for all delegates regardless of their previous knowledge and experience.

John Jacobs Consulting trainers have decades of security and communications practice in areas of disaster and conflict from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe, Gaza, Rwanda, Kosova and Haiti. They also have current real-world experience from recent deployments. First Aid trainers are all HSE qualified with the advantage of hazardous environment experience.

Participants will not only gain understanding of the safety and security process but will focus down onto specific threats and how to deal with them.

The Radio communications module will enable participants to understand the differences between common communications equipment used by humanitarian agencies and how to use them.

We have the advantage of use of the Codan UK base and radio training from John Jacobs with his encyclopedic knowledge of severe environment radio communications.

October 10th-14th 2011
Farnham, Surrey
Cost: £750

The course is non-residential. Assistance with accommodation booking may be given