Emergency Crisis Management Course

Terror attacks sites and tools of recent years:

• Rock concert - Automatic weapons and explosion
• Restaurant - Guns
• Metro station - Homemade bomb
• Airport - Homemade bomb
• Fast Train - Machete
• Fireworks at a national holiday - Truck

Recently, even in the minds of the most well-prepared anti-terrorists, the above have only emerged as an emergency scenario. By now, they are unfortunately mementoes of terrorist attacks in European cities. However, not only in a terrorist case can people get in a crisis, just think of a tsunami or an earthquake.

Recent events, terrorist attacks and environmental catastrophes have changed the perceptions of Hungary and the Hungarian citizens about security. The new environment brings new challenges to the Defense Forces, Police and Disaster Management as well. However, the staff of these agencies are, due to their task respectively the training system, continuously prepared for emergencies. In contrast, the civilian population and economic actors were not prepared or are not prepared at all for how to survive a catastrophe or a terrorist attack and how to cooperate with the authorities and help them on their victims after it has occurred.

Our trainings have been developed for the following target groups

The two-day crisis management course can be divided into theoretical and practical parts. The first day is the transfer of theoretical materials during classroom sessions, the second day the practice of the submitted theory takes place through situational exercises. The case studies to be presented are tailored to the group's working environment. If there are office-building workers involved, we will analyze cases that have occurred in a similar environment. Of course, we also analyze other cases, but we focus on what is probably the most relevant for the particular group.

In the context of psychological influencing factors, we discuss the importance of situational judgment, analyze verbal, non-verbal communication examples that can assist in detecting an emergency, and display body signals that may be a target of attack.

Armament knowledge is primarily a matter of basic information as the purpose of the course is not to train students for the use of different weapons but it is important to know the main features of each type to protect themselves properly in an acute situation.

Understanding the use of shelter and cover, and the difference between them is also important to eliminate the "Hollywood effect" of an average person.

With the demonstration of bare-handed collective defense techniques, we do not intend to educate martial arts, but we also consider it important to make students understand in what cases they can counteract and escape from situations.

A very important part of the training is how to communicate with official bodies or assistants who arrive to the scene first.

The first aid part of the course also includes basic knowledge. Our starting point was that the participants will not have any special equipment in the future either. A simple patient examination, a slightly extended first aid procedure is being presented, for example, with the topic of resuscitation, as these are also useful in real life.