Professionalising Travel Risk/Travel Security Management
Employers’ duty of care to their employees is a moral obligation and applies to employees’ business related travel as well as within the office setting or on the factory floor.
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In 2022 BGS provided an overarching security programme for one of the wealthiest and most high-profile families in the Middle East.
Employers’ duty of care to their employees is a moral obligation and applies to employees’ business related travel as well as within the office setting or on the factory floor.
ISO 31031: 2024 Managing risk for youth and school trips is a guidance standard intended help organisations which support children and young people who travel on organised visits, whether weeks trekking in jungles or a day visit to the local museum.
GSA has announced a strategic partnership with US-based Traxo the world’s leading provider of real-time corporate travel data capture.
Drones, once the stuff of science fiction and military strategy, have firmly integrated into everyday life. However, as drones become more common, so too do concerns about their misuse – often making headlines due to security and safety threats.
In most travel risk assessments we conduct, travel and security risk managers are concerned about ground transportation due to frequent incidents and lack of regulation.
By incorporating the lessons learned from the points outlined, you can strengthen your organisation’s Travel Risk Management approach and prevent such incidents from happening.
Travel risk management: Guidance for organisations provides that training of travellers in respect ‘Personal and proprietary information protection, risk of social engineering and espionage need[s] to be provided…’
This shocking BBC report is derived from police data about particular venues where child sexual abuse is committed. Worryingly, it adds to the picture GSA Global found when we analysed other recent FOIA data from police forces about the types of crimes committed in hotels.
Public consultations on the Terrorism (Protection of Premises) Bill took place in 2021 and 2024, and the Home Affairs Select Committee scrutinised the Bill in 2023. As a result, the Labour-led Government has proposed a number of changes to the original draft of the Bill.
Earlier this year GSA Global was honoured to be approached by the UK’s leading diversified Insurer Aviva, to collaborate in the development of an innovative initiative that takes a giant leap forward in travel risk management.
In our experience, some organisations appear unsure about whether they have a duty of care for employees in their downtime during a business trip, or after the business element of the trip is complete…
The role of employers in TRM is to discharge their duty of care through identifying foreseeable travel risks that could affect their travelling workers, to assess those risks and take reasonable steps to prevent or mitigate them.