Training Solutions: Our STX computer-based training platform comprises programs designed for e-learning, evaluation, classroom support and team simulation-based training. The topics covered range from routine operations to safety and security practices required during large-scale events. Examples of topics covered are helideck landing officer, crane operation, firefighting, refueling, and others. The technology underpinning STX is sufficiently flexible and cost-effective to allow rapid delivery via web-based courses, company intranets, LANs and standalone computers.

Training Services: Varicom provides on-site training sessions utilizing our STX training software, curricula and scenarios. We also plan and run table-top and full-scale exercises. Our teams comprise highly qualified subject experts, trainers and evaluators who are well versed in training exercise best practices.

Knowledge Management: An integral component of Varicom training system deployments is the development of training content that embodies knowledge of highly experienced workers. To rapidly bring this knowledge into training programs, we utilize a structured process to collect, model, validate and convey knowledge and experience to users of the Varicom training solutions. When deployed via the Varicom STX training suite, decades of company-specific expertise can be transfered to large numbers of workers, efficiently and cost-effectively.

Incident Management: Our incident management support services bring best-of-breed practices to the realm of real-time incident management. Via our leading technology we combine software tools to identify risks and hazards, manage resources, track environmental risks and dispatch equipment. These tools also help incident commanders and EOCs generate meaningful reports during and after the incident. We also provide support services based on our technology that allow us to aggregate in real-time a diverse mix of information ranging from hotzone sensor readings to news media bulletins and competitor reactions.

Management Systems: Whether your organization is seeking to improve existing or develop new management systems for safety, environmental, security and other vital functions Varicom can help. By applying our proven methodology, we can deliver leading practices and industry standards to your organization in a sensible, cost-effective way. And unlike other service providers, we have the tools and experience to be heavily involved in the testing, training and rollout of the new or improved management systems so that at the end of the day the system will be ready for action.

Our management system development process covers procedures and policies, organization structure, human resources, plans, standards, infrastructure and information systems. We typically begin with a foundational system built on proven practices and industry standards, and proceed to systematically taylor each system to the unique needs of our clients' organizations. And to ensure the system is properly implemented, we utilize a series of testing tools and live drills to validate and fine tune each system as necessary before going live.

Business Continuity and Crisis Management: Varicom helps its clients develop, test and continually improve plans and capabilities to withstand events that could disrupt business activities and or otherwise damage the business. Knowing that business continuity and crisis management plans are specific to each organization and can never anticipate all events, Varicom utilizes an approach that emphasizes agility and continual improvement. Where appropriate, we utilize a fast-track technique for plan development that enables rapid development of business continuity and crisis management plans plus the capability to properly execute each plan in real time.

The centerpiece of our crisis preparedness offering is the Crisis-Ready Teams(tm) collection of solutions and services. This advanced approach brings realism directly into a structured process for developing and verifying an organization's ability to optimally manage crises of many types. Further information on this leading-edge approach can be found here

Risk Assessment and Planning: Varicom assists clients in identifying risks at virtually all levels of the organization ranging from facility safety mishaps to global supply chain disruptions. By utilizing a number of proprietary tools, Varicom applies risk models and logistics analysis programs that can give a more comprehensive picture of the operating risk envelope and facilitate fast-track planning to mitigate those risks.

Information Systems: Varicom assists clients with the implementation and program management of third-party packaged and bespoke information systems. Our team comprises experienced analysts, architects, developers, testers, trainers and project managers that are conversant with leading software engineering practices and web 2.0 technologies.

Exercise Management: Achieving measurable and sustainable benefits from an exercise can be an elusive goal. Varicom's experience combined with its proven methodologies for planning, recording and evaluating exercises allows our Exercise Management team to deliver valuable results cost effectively. Having applied our capabilities to large and small exercises (from over 1000 to under one dozen participants) in both the private and public sectors, our team knows how to get the job done right. Key challenges like managing scenario scope, measuring and rating performance, orchestrating interdependent events, delivering injections, and deriving actionable feedback from the after-action analysis process all fall within the core competencies of our Exercise Management team.

Modeling and Simulation: The Varicom modeling and simulation (M & S) team develops virtual world models of physical plant, atmosphere and critical infrastructure. Our high-precision models serve as valuable tools in important activities like planning, plant design, training and even real-time monitoring. With the inclusion of physics modeling, dynamic events like smoke and flame propogation, explosions, hemical spills, structural collapse, vehicle collisions and human evacuations can be generated in a visually stunning "reality" that enables powerful insights and actionable results.