Corporate travel safety 2024
Corporate travel safety and security: a short guide
The role of duty of care in business travel
How smooth travel and duty of care shape employee experience
Travel risk management vs duty of care: what’s the difference?
What are some safety risks to consider while traveling for work?
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Sanitation and health
- The availability of healthcare: make sure your travelers know where they can get medical support before they need it. Encourage employees to research the availability of local healthcare services and keep a list of nearby hospitals or clinics.
- Food and water safety: while working abroad is a great way to gain new experiences and perhaps taste new food and drink, it’s worth remembering that some parts of the world might not have the same hygiene standards as at home. Traveler’s can reduce their risk of stomach upsets by sticking to safe eating and drinking habits. Although tempting, travelers should steer clear of street food. Similarly, opt for bottled water instead of tap water.
- Health threats and diseases: traveler’s will need to complete any necessary vaccination courses for the country prior to traveling.
Accommodation security
- Choose secure hotel rooms. Prioritize accommodations with strong security measures like 24-hour front desk service, security cameras in common areas, and digital room keys. Ensure the hotel is in a safe neighborhood by researching the area beforehand with Google Street View and reading guest reviews.
- Avoid ground-floor rooms. Rooms on the ground floor are more accessible to intruders. It’s safer to book rooms on higher floors, ideally between the third and sixth floors, where they are less vulnerable to break-ins but still reachable by emergency services.
- Be discreet at check-in. Encourage employees to be discreet when checking in. They should avoid sharing personal details out loud, such as their room number, and request that the front desk writes down the information instead. This prevents potential eavesdroppers from targeting them.
- Use the hotel room’s safety features. Ensure that employees use the in-room safe to store valuables like passports, laptops, and credit cards. Plus, they should always lock the door using the deadbolt and consider bringing a portable door lock or rubber door stop for added security.
- Know the emergency exits. Upon arrival, employees should immediately locate the nearest emergency exits and familiarize themselves with the escape routes. This quick action can be critical in an emergency.
Third-party contractors
Female traveler safety
4 Steps to promote traveler safety
1. Travel risk assessment
2. Employee itinerary tracking
With TravelPerk’s corporate travel tracker, you can view all employee itineraries in one place–on a single screen–down to the specifics like flights, hotel bookings, and car rentals. For larger teams or organizations, the grouping feature allows you to organize employees by team or location, for easy management. TravelPerk also keeps everyone informed on the go with mobile alerts, delivering important updates directly to smartphones. The built-in travel tracker offers full visibility into business trips and compliance with company travel policies, reducing risks and ensuring corporate standards are met.
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3. Employee training
4. It's not usually life and death
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