Education for safety is a preparation of the society to prevent any security threats. It plays an important role in preparing for general defence. It is therefore expected that the curricula are relevant to contemporary challenges and threats to security and that teachers of education for safety are adequately prepared for the realisation of the curriculum’s content. Currently in Poland security education teachers are trained in three-semester postgraduate programmes. Participants in these classes are teachers of different subjects, often completely unrelated to security issues. The paper presents a programme of training students of the Physical Education Academy of the department of physical education in the uniformed services as an alternative form of training teachers in physical education and education for safety.