TRG 320 · Training and Instruction · Level 300 (Non-Commissioned Officer / Instructor)
A Royal Army College course in running practical training safely.
Course length: 10 hours, studied online and asynchronously at the student's own pace, together with any in-person practical instruction and assessment the course requires.
Foreword
Practical training is where soldiering is really learned, and it is also where people get hurt if the training is run carelessly. Airsoft exercises, physical training, fieldcraft, first-aid drills, weapon handling, and cold-weather work all carry real risk, and an instructor's first duty, before teaching anything, is the safety and welfare of the people in their charge. Training that injures someone has failed, however well it passed on the skill. This course builds the member who keeps practical training safe.
It teaches the safety officer's duty; how to carry out a risk assessment and keep re-judging risk as conditions change; the hierarchy of control and the safe system of work; how to apply all of this to the Army's actual practical training, from airsoft milsim to the range to the field; supervision, the stop procedure, and the emergency and casualty plan; the highest-risk domains in depth, range and live-fire safety, the environmental hazards of weather, heat, cold, and water, force-on-force and simulation safety, and the fatigue and human factors that undo a safe system; and how to record, review, and build a culture of safety where hazards are reported early without blame. It is grounded in recognised risk-assessment practice and in the Army's own training-safety and airsoft standards.
The safest training is not the training where nothing is attempted; it is the training where real things are done under real control. This course builds the member who provides that control.
Who this course is for
This course is for members who will run or supervise practical training, range periods, or airsoft milsim exercises, and for those advancing in the Training and Instruction speciality. It assumes TRG 301 · Methods of Instruction.
What this course covers
| Lesson | Title |
|---|---|
| 01 | The Safety Officer's Duty |
| 02 | Risk Assessment |
| 03 | Controlling the Risks |
| 04 | Safety in the Army's Practical Training |
| 05 | Supervision, Emergencies, and the Stop |
| 06 | Range and Live-Fire Safety |
| 07 | Environmental Hazards: Weather, Heat, Cold, and Water |
| 08 | Force-on-Force and Simulation Safety |
| 09 | Fatigue, Human Factors, and Why Safe Systems Fail |
| 10 | Recording, Review, and a Culture of Safety |
How this course fits the catalogue
TRG 320 builds on TRG 301 · Methods of Instruction and partners TRG 310 · Assessment and Course Supervision. It applies directly to FLD 360 · Physical Training Instructor, FLD 210 · Weapon Handling and Safety (range safety), FLD 240 · Cold-Weather Operations, the practical Airsoft Milsim Component and its safety standard, and MED 201 · Combat First Aid (the casualty plan). It draws on LDR 420 · Command Responsibility and Ethical Leadership for the duty of care and the reporting culture.
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