Westminster, through their strategic partner ISSEE, offers students from military, police and civil agencies the opportunity to study for qualifications in Explosive Ordnance Disposal.
Until the formation of ISSEE (The International School for Security and Explosives Education), this subject matter was only available through military training schools and even then, without academic qualification.
Our students go on to perform a variety of different roles from Humanitarian Demining through to Counter-Terrorist Bomb Disposal Officers and from Environmental Services teams through to Explosives Magazine Personnel and government scientists.
The Improvised Explosive Devices Disposal (IEDD) courses available are:
- IED Awareness Day This 1 day course is to raise students' awareness of IEDs, their components, effects and associated hazards, and to be able to assess effective cordon and evacuation distances necessary to ensure the safety of others.
- IEDD Refresher Training course This 10 day course is to refresh the student in the skills required to operate in a competent manner when disposing of an Improvised Explosive Device (IED).
- Booby Trap course This 10 day course is to prepare students to be able to identify and disarm Booby-Traps and to carry out the necessary first response to ensure the safety of others.
- Manual Techniques course This 10 day course is to impart the basic knowledge required to manually neutralise Improvised Explosive Devices where the use of EOD weapons is unacceptable.
- Improvised Explosive Devices Disposal (IEDD) Technician course This 15 day course is to prepare the student to operate in a competent manner when disposing of an Improvised Explosive Device (IED).
- Weapons Intelligence Team Training course This 15 day course is to provide the student with the knowledge required to work as part of a team in order to conduct post blast scene examination, to recover evidence from a scene, working to multi-agency working practices and to use the information to provide analysis of current terrorist/insurgent methodology.
- CBRN IEDD course This 15 day course is to prepare students in the theory of Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear (CBRN) materials, introduce them to CBRN equipment and practice them in the render safe procedure options in dealing with a simple device.