ARE YOUR PEOPLE READY?
A five-day check on whether your field travel risk programme actually prepares people for the places they go. Written for programme and project leads at conservation, climate, clean-energy, development and research organisations.
DAY 1
When the embassy leaves first
What Sudan in 2023 says about plans that assume someone will come.
DAY 2
Four gaps ISO 31030 tends to expose
Insurance, risk ratings, training, and who your programme actually covers.
DAY 3
One night bus, five kinds of risk
Health, cultural nuance, safeguarding, safety and security and how they compound.
DAY 4
Four tests for your programme
Questions to put to your team before the next deployment.
DAY 5
What to do with the diagnosis
Three questions to answer now and a next step if you want help.
YOUR INSTRUCTOR
Colin Howe
Founder, Rocky Road Resilience
​
Colin is a Global Risk & Resilience Advisor (GRRA) at Rocky Road Resilience. He works with organisations whose people travel or deploy into complex, fragile and hostile environments, building ISO 31030-aligned travel and security risk management frameworks that strengthen Duty of Care. He created the RiCE® programme, delivers SAFE, HEAT and CONDO training and has prepared more than 8,500 people to operate safely overseas. What sets Colin apart is his ability to provide context and context-driven solutions, to the physical realities on the ground, a skill rare in the field. A veteran, CMI Level 8 Chartered Manager and PhD researcher at The University of Buckingham, he combines operational experience with academic rigour to turn risk awareness into practical preparation.