Security & Risk Assessments
Structured review of operational environments, exposure, vulnerabilities, and realistic mitigation options for personnel, travel, events, and field activities.
DISCUSS AN ASSESSMENT ↗HEATSS / SECURITY & RISK ADVISORY
BETTER DECISIONS.
SAFER OPERATIONS.
Practical, context-aware security advice for teams working across unfamiliar, complex, or rapidly changing environments.
A PRACTICAL PARTNER
UNDERSTAND THE RISK. PLAN WITH CONFIDENCE.
Good security decisions begin with an understanding of the people, places, activities, and pressures that shape an operation. HEATSS helps organizations turn that understanding into workable plans and informed choices.
Our approach is collaborative, proportionate, and tailored to your mission—not a one-size-fits-all checklist or a promise that risk can be eliminated.
OUR ADVISORY SERVICES
THE RIGHT SUPPORT, AT THE RIGHT STAGE.
From early planning to operational review, select a focused service or discuss a tailored advisory engagement.
Travel & Deployment Planning
Pre-departure advice, destination-specific considerations, movement planning, communications, medical contingencies, and practical preparation for teams entering unfamiliar settings.
PLAN A DEPLOYMENT ↗Operational Security Advisory
Support with field procedures, check-in arrangements, journey management, team briefings, escalation thresholds, and safer ways of working in changing conditions.
EXPLORE SUPPORT ↗Crisis & Incident Preparedness
Review of response roles, notification pathways, emergency decision-making, continuity considerations, and scenario-based preparedness before an incident occurs.
BUILD READINESS ↗Digital & Information Risk
Practical digital hygiene and information-safety considerations, including sensitive data handling, device preparation, account security, and location-sharing practices.
DISCUSS DIGITAL RISK ↗Policies, Reviews & Team Briefings
Help reviewing existing safety procedures, identifying practical gaps, preparing concise briefings, and strengthening how teams apply their own risk controls.
REQUEST A REVIEW ↗HOW WE WORK
INSIGHT THAT BECOMES ACTION.
Listen
Understand your mission, people, priorities, constraints, and operational context.
Assess
Identify relevant risks and examine realistic options—not theoretical perfection.
Plan
Develop clear, proportionate measures that teams can actually use.
Adapt
Review decisions as conditions change and lessons emerge.
BUILT AROUND YOUR MISSION
ADVISORY THAT FITS THE WAY YOU WORK.
We work with the needs of journalists and newsrooms, documentary productions, humanitarian and NGO teams, civil society organizations, research and survey crews, and other organizations with complex field or workplace exposure.
Support may be scoped to a single journey, project, team, event, or broader organizational process.
A THOUGHTFUL STARTING POINT
Tell us what you're planning.
A field assignment, an unfamiliar destination, a sensitive event, a growing team, or a changing risk environment—every advisory conversation starts with your actual needs.
We'll discuss the scope and what support may be appropriate before proposing an engagement.
LET'S TALK ABOUT YOUR NEEDS
PREPARE FOR WHAT'S NEXT.
Share your mission, location or operating context, timeline, and main concerns. We'll help identify a practical starting point.
REQUEST AN ADVISORY CONSULTATION →