Travelling abroad on business? Learn how to travel safely with our advice and professional business traveller courses.
Business Travel Advice
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Business Travel Safety
Travelling abroad on business? Learn how to travel safely with our advice and professional business traveller courses.
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Hostile Environment Safety Courses
Hostile Environment Safety training for media teams and NGOs. We will help you stay aware.
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Leisure & Adventure Travel
Leisure and Adventure Travel Safety Training for Individuals and Expeditions
Who We Are
Objective Travel Safety was established in 2002 by Charlie McGrath, Jamie Lowther-Pinkerton & Nick Nash and specialises in training a wide range of professionals and individuals prior to their travels. We have a range of consultants who assist us in the delivery of training and the provision of security advice. Whilst our team is small, we ensure that our training is delivered by high quality personnel who have extensive knowledge of global security and overseas travel. For example, on our Hostile Environment Safety Courses (HEST/HET) for journalists delivered in partnership with Eurovision in Bavaria, we ensure that one of the four instructors is a leading journalist, often Eric Feijten and Peter Ter Velde (both of whom work extensively for Dutch TV NOS), Robert Adams, or Ben Timberlake, all of whom have covered conflicts over many years. For our medical training, we work with a variety of specialists who provide training, medical support and trauma packs. Read More..
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- Libya civil war: UN envoy Salamé says foreign intervention must end
- Lebanon protests: Anti-government protesters clash with police
- National Archives sorry for censoring 2017 Women's March signs
- New Chinese virus 'will have infected hundreds'
- Mexico violence: Indigenous musicians killed in ambush in Guerrero
- Nepal avalanche: Snow hampers search for missing South Korean trekkers
- Orthodox Christians brave an icy dip to mark Epiphany
- Disney culls 'Fox' from 20th Century Fox in rebrand
- Delta Air Lines sued by California teachers over fuel dump
- Jack Reacher author Lee Child passes writing baton to brother
- The 'tiny' recipe to YouTube success
- When sexual abuse was called seduction: France confronts its past
- Acclaimed scientist gets brain surgery for alcohol addiction
- The rescue worker who refuses to leave a bombed-out town
- Davos 2020: What is the World Economic Forum and is it elitist?
- Australia fires: Have gum trees made the bushfires worse?
- 'You can quit': Colombian cocaine farmers' message to UK user
- Rain brings bushfire relief to parts of Australia
- Global Hawk drones: A look at Nato's new spy tool
- Iran tensions: Khamenei's 'defiant message' at Friday prayers
- 'We can get along because that's America'
- What's behind the fight for Libya?
- 'I was sexually abused by a shaman at an ayahuasca retreat'
- How having a son with Down's syndrome changed rocker's music
- Naked artists in Serbia breathing life into damaged art scene
- Prohibition: US activists fight for temperance 100 years on
- Why are Chinese fishermen finding so many 'submarine spies'?
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Hostile Environment Training
We have run these courses since 2003 when we started training the UK print media prior to the Second Gulf War. The majority of our courses are for media teams and journalists but also for NGOs working in some very challenging environments. Courses are designed to teach the individual how to think on their feet and typical subjects will include situational awareness, personal safety, mines & IED, negotiating checkpoints, ballistics and weapons and kidnap prevention. On all courses, whether two days or up to five days, there will be a strong medical content. For the last 10 years we have been working with the Eurovision Academy (part of the European Broadcast Union) and run regular 5 day courses in Bavaria for many of Europe’s leading media networks and journalists. -
Business Traveller
Corporations and businesses will understand the need to safeguard their personnel abroad. We can assist companies to develop a workable overseas travel policy and procedures and then assist with the training of their staff. Whilst any travel procedures will be set out in a company’s or an organization’s commitment to safe travel, our courses will train the individual how to think safe so to be able to react to events on the ground, especially if they are confronted by a hazardous situation such as a mugging. The aim is to maximize the potential of the traveller so that he or she can fulfill their potential. -
Travelling Abroad
No matter where you’re travelling, safety and security will be important and our courses are accessible to all types of individuals working or exploring a variety of environments. Our courses are always tailored to a client’s needs and we can cover all of the relevant areas of security to minimise risks, including accommodation security, kidnap prevention, situation awareness, criminal activity and handling of corrupt officials, as well as many other important topics. -
Security Advice
We are able to assist clients with a range of advice, requirements will vary depending on the destination and the level of knowledge and experience of the person travelling. The needs of a young 18-year-old Gap Year traveller going to South East Asia for the first time will be very different to a mining engineer with a wealth of experience working overseas. We have good links with many leading UK security proviers such as Northcott Holdings, Salamanca, Response 24 and RPS Parternship as well as medical experts such as the Fleet Street Clinic and Iqarus. We are also partners in the FCO’s Travel Aware initiative.
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Travel News
Lebanon: Violent clashes in Beirut
Pakistan & Afghanistan: Winter storms kill many
Fiji: Damaged by cyclone Tino
Hong Kong: Protests expected to continue from 20 Jan
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13 Jan, 2020
The Middle East
The killing of the head of Iran's Republican Guareds Corps, General Quassim Soliemani by a US drone strike in Baghdad on 3 Jan 20 will dramiticially increase tension between Iran and the USA. T...
13 Jan, 2020
Indian Sub Continent
Travellers, be they on business or for pleasure, will find the subcontinent a fascinating although an often tiring place to visit. We believe crime levels are significantly lower compared to Latin ...
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16/01/2020, ObjectiveTravel
We’re in Ankara, Turkey today delivering our Business Travel Safety Awareness Training to our lovely client Aviagen… https://t.co/F2MtnAhHEM
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15/01/2020, ObjectiveTravel
Travelling on a Gap Year? Don’t spend it like this! #GapYear #Travel #Safety course gives the confidence to get off… https://t.co/VNztiI8r8E
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13/01/2020, ObjectiveTravel
Thank you Ella for this great testimonial from our Gap Year Travel and Safety course last week in London.
Planning… https://t.co/QFd0qzvevi
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Testimonials
"16 years ago (in 2003), I did a gap year safety course, with Nick (?) if I remember correctly. What I learnt has subsequently kept me safe across six continents and many countries. I’ve just got back from travelling in the Middle East, incident free. I still use the ‘READE’ method, still don’t eat unpeeled / unboiled fruit/veg and always check my luggage before crossing borders etc. So I’d just like to say thanks for operating a business teaching lifelong skills that years and years later really do make travel safer, more fun and less problematic! That day at the cafe in London (Troubadour) taught me so much, If I hadn’t attended, I imagine I’d have not had the smooth travels I’ve had!"
Richard - Gap Year Course Attendee
"Charlie and the team at Objective Travel Safety tailored a one day training event for myself and my partner ahead of our cycle adventure from Scotland to Cape Wrath. Having spoken to many different companies, this was the first organisation who were able to offer a bespoke day which focused exactly on the countries we will be visiting, and the dangers we may encounter as cyclists".
Lucy Alliott, Cycle Adventure from Scotland to Cape Wrath
Charlie McGrath and the team at Objective Travel Safety have provided a range of excellent training programmes for Euromoney Institutional Investor PLC globally over the past four years, covering personal travel safety and security for employees, event security, and travel and security advice for female travellers. Annual training has been delivered through face-to-face workshops (both half-day and-full day) at our offices in London, New York, Hong Kong, Singapore and Shanghai.
Euromoney
First trust is at the heart of our partnership, real trust uniequivocal. When we hired Objective Travel Safety some 12 years ago, we were looking for a Company that would grow with us, meet our challenges. I wanted the relationship to become sustainable. Since 2004, Objective has been developing and delivering 58 courses for 671 reporters and journalists from 40 countries
Nathalie Labourdette, Eurovision Academy
The Medical Research Council (MRC) of the UK have used Objective for a number of years to provide staff training on the potential hazards of overseas & UK travel. The trainer, Charlie McGrath, developed a bespoke course for the MRC which has proved very popular and educational for those attending. I would highly recommend Objective Travel Safety.
Dr A R Mitchell, Corporate Adviser, MRC
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