WHAT IS TRAVEL RISK MANAGEMENT?
Travel Risk Management is the practice of anticipating, preventing and reacting to unplanned risks that travellers may face on their journeys. This can include extreme weather events, social unrest, terrorism, natural disasters, public health events like pandemics, and much more.
Concerns about security risks - including geopolitical threats - and concerns about travel disruptions are pushing organisations to manage more real-time information, more granular risk assessment and enhanced travel scrutiny, to ensure their travellers are safe, secure and productive.
PREPARE
Developing a structured approach to the implementation, evaluation and review of your organisation's Travel Risk Management programme is more important than ever. Most importantly, organisations have a responsibility to uphold their Duty of Care requirements by mitigating foreseeable risks and threats. It is important to not only assess the risks but promote a culture where medical and security travel threats are taken seriously. This increases an employee's confidence and willingness to travel knowing that they will be well taken care of in any situation that may arise.
A good starting point is to identify the framework of how to manage health and security risks.
Key questions to consider when preparing a Travel Risk Management programme
PREVENT
Plans are only as good as the weakest link, so it is key that everyone know their roles and responsibilities. Online or in-person training can get everyone on the same page, covering off who to call in an emergency, plans for evacuations and monitoring emerging risks and threats.
Be sure to have detailed itineraries of where your travellers are and know how to contact them if necessary. Make sure everyone is booking through approved channels - and be ready to take corrective action with those who don't follow the procedures. These are some of the many things that can be done in partnership with your assistance partner.