Duty of Care for Business Travel – Travel Risk in 2022
1 Jun 2022
Travel risk management strategies and policies have become commonplace across most industries, yet their content and applicability can be affected by subtle changes in the risk landscape.
This report looks at what considerations should be made to ensure your existing strategy is robust enough to cover the changing risk landscape ahead.
Duty of Care for Business Travel Summary
Travel risk management strategies and policies have become commonplace across most industries, yet
their content and applicability can be affected by subtle changes in the risk landscape. Solace Global Risk
looks at what considerations should be made to ensure your existing strategy is robust enough to cover
the changing risk landscape ahead.
Key Points:
- COVID-19 risk and duty of care
- Fundamentals of an agile strategy
- Five considerations to ensure your travel policy is still relevant
- What to look for in a travel risk management provider
- Steps for successful crisis management
Business travel has increased with the gradual easing of COVID-19 travel restrictions and the rollout of effective COVID-19 vaccination programmes. Yet the risk of COVID-19 remains present, as lockdowns in China during the first half of 2022 have shown.
Organisations continue to face a further Duty of Care to their travellers to protect against the risk of COVID-19, whilst monitoring the challenges faced by rising political and economic instability fuelled by supply chain issues, the surge in inflation, the ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine, global conflicts, and more.
It is necessary for organisations to be ready to adapt and adjust to the challenges that this and future years may present. Risks need to be carefully considered in light of a volatile and unpredictable threat landscape, with employees and travellers at the heart of every decision and policy.