A woman wearing a Trump shirt is pelted with eggs by protesters while pinned against a door near where the candidate was holding a rally in San Jose, Calif.

June 2, 2016 A woman wearing a Trump shirt is pelted with eggs by protesters while pinned against a door near where the candidate was holding a rally in San Jose, Calif. Josh Edelson/AFP/Getty Images

Protesters and supporters of Donald Trump clash during his campaign.

Protesters and supporters of Donald Trump clash during his campaign.

Protesters and supporters of Donald Trump clash during his campaign.

In photos, disruptions and protests during the Trump campaign

In photos, disruptions and protests during the Trump campaign

Donald Trump’s campaign events have apparently become such a minefield for reporters that one major news organization has taken the extraordinary step of offering its correspondents a version of training for dealing with real minefields.

NPR has sent its political reporters to 90-minute hostile-environment awareness training, which in its typical form lasts a few days and prepares journalists for covering war zones or regions where terrorists are active.

News organizations, government agencies and nongovernmental organizations generally employ this type of training to help employees respond to hazards such as riots, mortar attacks, kidnappings or firefights.

In this case, NPR’s scaled-down sessions might be called Trump Training.

Although there have been no mortar attacks, Trump’s campaign rallies are generally rowdy affairs in which violence has occasionally flared. The candidate canceled one of his rallies in Chicago this month out of concerns that protests against him had become too volatile.

Violence at Trump campaign events has been increasing in intensity despite Trump's insistence that his rallies are peaceful. Here's a look at how the violence has escalated to the events in Tuscon on March 19. (Daron Taylor,Monica Akhtar/The Washington Post)

Three journalists have been roughed up while covering Trump, including a reporter for Breitbart News who suffered bruises this month when she said she was grabbed by Trump’s campaign manager, Corey Lewandowski, as she was questioning the candidate. Lewandowski has denied involvement, and Trump has defended him.

But Trump arguably has inflamed violent behavior among his supporters by declining to disavow their behavior. He has said that he wanted to punch one protester “in the face” and that protesters in an earlier age would “be carried out on a stretcher, folks.”

He has also suggested that riots could ensue if he is denied the nomination at the Republican convention despite securing the leading share of delegates.

NPR wouldn’t discuss its training in detail, but Michael Oreskes, senior vice president of news, confirmed that the radio and digital news organization has made it available to its reporters. He described it as training for “dangerous or possibly hostile environments,” he told NPR.

A spokeswoman, Isabel Lara, said the sessions are designed to deal “with the stress of covering a very demanding story for a long period of time. We make the training widely available to newsroom staff whether they work internationally or domestically.”

She declined to say how many staffers had received the training.

NPR appears to be alone in providing such training to its Trump reporters. No other news organization, including The Washington Post, said it was undertaking similar training, a spot check found.

Corey Lewandowski, the campaign manager for Donald Trump, appears to have been involved in another altercation in Tuscon on March 19. Trump has praised Lewandowski for his involvement in the incident. (Daron Taylor,Monica Akhtar/The Washington Post)

Frank Smyth, executive director of Global Journalist Security, a firm that provides hostile-environment awareness training (HEAT), said some news organizations sought his company’s services last year after a disgruntled former employee of a TV station shot and killed a reporter and her cameraman near Roanoke.

Although no one has asked about Trump rallies specifically, Smyth said, “This violence is a serious concern, and it has the potential to escalate and develop a momentum of its own that could lead to serious injuries of journalists. In other words, I am more concerned about the kind of climate this could help unleash than the level of violence against journalists we have seen to date.”