Hostile environments, high risk activities & events
Any proposals to work in hostile environments, on high risk activities or high risk events must be referred to Head of Newsgathering and Occupational Risk Management's High Risk Team. For further information see http://hss.gateway.bbc.co.uk/.
A hostile environment is a country, region or specified area subject to war, insurrection, civil unrest, terrorism or extreme levels of crime, banditry or lawlessness, and public disorder. It also includes areas with extreme climate or terrain. The BBC keeps a list of hostile and dangerous environments available at http://hss.gateway.bbc.co.uk/heCountryList.asp.
High risk activities include criminal investigations involving covert surveillance or recording and/or confrontation of terrorists, serious criminal or extremist or violent or political groups.
High risk events include riots, civil disturbance or extreme public disorder, terrorist or armed criminal incidents such as hi-jacking or sieges as well as any event involving chemical, biological or radiological (CBR) substances or extreme climatic events such as hurricanes, severe floods, earthquakes, and volcanic eruptions.