About us, Remote Area Risk International

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ABOUT US

Long standing, leading experts in the remote area medical and remote area risk managements spheres. Every year, we train delegates operating on every continent, in every environment, from Antarctica to the arctic circle, mountains to deserts, outback to jungles. Trusted by the leading organisations in our sectors, from the top adventure travel companies to Mountain Rescue, the most elite medics in the UK Military, overseas militaries, TV and media organisations, Universities, Government Agencies and more. Importantly, as well as being qualified and delivering up to date, evidence based training, our Faculty have huge real world experience in their chosen fields.

We are thought leaders in and the leading provider of professional level, modular remote area medical and risk management training in the UK, running training from our delivery operations base in Snowdonia, as part of our exclusive partnership in the remote area medical and remote area risk management sphere with the National Outdoor Centre, Plas y Brenin. Our expertise in this field was emphasised when we were granted permission by the Secretary of State to launch the Institute for Remote Area Risk and Medicine, 'Institute' being a protected word in UK law.

We have courses for both health care professionals and non health care professionals. Training is delivered by a team of passionate educators with no egos - just a passion to educate the next generation and to support expeditions, fieldwork and projects to run safely in remote areas. We invest heavily in the training and education of our Faculty and operate a robust and regular internal quality assurance programme.

Our aim is to raise standards in courses accessible by the public, delivering training in both risk management (prevention) and response - including medical response post incident. We see the medical aspect as one element of a wider risk management framework.

We have created global first courses in our fields, where we have identified what we believe are important training gaps. Our training is well established and long tested, year after year, by those using the training in a professional capacity around the world. Many have trained with other organisations before coming to us and we are both humbled and flattered by the feedback they give us regarding the quality of our training.

We have been involved in writing leading British (BS:) and International (ISO) standards for the fields we operate in, including BS:8848, the Standard for overseas visits, expeditions and fieldwork, as well as

ISO: 31030 - Travel Risk Management. We have Doctors who have worked for the British Antarctic Survey, Army, Air Force, A & E Doctors, those holding Diplomas in Mountain Medicine, Remote and Offshore Medicine and also Travel and Tropical Health.

The Faculty has 6 Fellows in the Academy of Wildernesss Medicine and Faculty members sit on the Wilderness Medical Society Expedition Medicine, Operational Medicine and Global Health Committees. Faculty include Doctors (including multiple Faculty members at Consultant level), Nurses and Paramedics including those who operated within UK Military (including Tier 1 Special Forces) units as well as subject matter expert remote area risk managers and remote area/expedition specific legal specialists.

In the UK - and perhaps globally, we believe that we have the leading multi disciplinary Faculty in our respective sectors. Not all of the Faculty feature on the website.

Three of our Faculty contributed to the new 3rd Edition Oxford Expedition Medical Handbook - either as authors or as an editor of a specialist subject area. Several Faculty members have also edited the UK localised edition of the Pre Hospital Trauma Life Support Course and Tactical Emergency Casualty Care texts as well as other remote area medical texts. There is a reason that remote area medics, disaster response organisations, government agencies, adventure travellers, expedition organisations and others come to us for training. Our multi disciplinary Faculty is a the top of its game - that is what our clients tell us.

R2Ri has been set up to operate as a for-profit wing and a not for profit wing – the latter to assist worthy charities, good causes and organisations, including Veterans Charities.

The team includes recognised experts with experience and qualifications to back up our practice.

If you are serious about complying with your Duty of Care for staff and local Partners overseas, want your teams to be able to plan field operations to accepted good practice standards, to operate safely in the field then we can help.

R2Ri was conceived by a group of like-minded experts in their respective fields during discussions at key industry events (including exploration safety and expedition sector safety events in the UK and North America, including at the Royal Geographical Society), for which these individuals were expert speakers, communications between members in the UK and Kurdistan, meetings in Hereford and final stages in the Special Forces Club in London…all to bring together a team of genuine operational, safety and academic experts with significant expertise in the fields in which we operate. Now going into our tenth year, the organisation has grown from strength to strength. Our client list speaks for itself.

The team includes specialists who have written internationally recognised remote area safety/expedition/fieldwork safety and Travel Risk Management safety standards - British Standards (BS:8848:2014) and ISO (ISO:31030) standards, team members who have sat on specialist industry advisory and health and safety committees, members of three Wilderness Medical Society (the global authority in Wilderness Medicine) Committees - Operational Medicine (including environmental and Prolonged Field Care), Global Health and also the Expedition Medicine Committee, Civilians and ex Military, Expedition and Exploration specialists, University level Lecturers, Doctors (including those who worked as Outdoor instructors before studying Medicine) who have ascended Everest and hold the Diploma in Mountain Medicine (along with Search and Rescue expertise), well known remote area Paramedics with TV and Media expertise, Travel and Tropical Health Training, Experts in Risk, Crisis and Disaster Response, Nurses with Mountain Rescue experience (and delivered Mountain Rescue Casualty Care training) who were responsible for training, clinical governance and quality at their NHS Hospitals, prior to leaving for academic posts, Kidnap Survival specialists, Survival Instructors, Intelligence analysts with Military and Security Service backgrounds, Off Shore Rescue Team Leaders, Ex Military Medics, Dive Medics, Legal experts, Mountain Leaders, Kayaking instructors, Outdoor instructors and Expedition leaders.

What the team have in common is that they are all experts in their respective fields.

Team members, collectively, have many decades of experience. They have trained, worked for or provided Consultancy to some of the biggest names in the Exploration, Expedition, Adventure Travel, Marine, Shipping, TV and many other sectors.

We pride ourselves on the fact that very (very) few photographs on this website are stock images. The vast majority were taken by team members on project.