Building a Travel Risk Management Program: Traveler Safety and Duty of Care for Any Organization

by Charles Brossman

Overview

Building a Travel Risk Management Program: Traveler Safety and Duty of Care for Any Organization helps business and security professionals effectively manage traveler risk by showing them how to build a complete travel risk program. While global corporate travel risks are increasing exponentially, many security and business managers are not well-versed in the rapidly changing global landscape of travel risk, nor do they fully realize the multitude of risks their companies face if they don’t comply with their legal obligations—“duty of care"—for protecting their employees from foreseeable harm, which can cost a company in the form of extensive fines, productivity loss, business interruptions, stock price loss, litigation, and even potential bankruptcy.

This book is the first to bridge the gap between the topics of travel management, security, and risk management. It serves as a reference point for working with other departments, including human resources and legal, paving the way for better internal cooperation for travel managers and security managers. In addition, it helps organizations craft a travel risk management program for their unique needs that incorporates the most important policies and procedures that help them comply with legal obligations.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780128019252
Publisher:	Elsevier Science
Publication date:	04/04/2016
Pages:	222
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Charles Brossman is an internationally recognized expert, speaker and writer on travel risk management. He is a former corporate travel manager, and has held senior level positions at global travel management companies as the sole travel risk management subject matter expert covering over 150 countries, specializing in developing and implementing travel risk management products and services around the world. Mr. Brossman is a former member of the GBTA Risk Committee and the GBTA Foundation Risk Task Force, and currently sits on the advisory board for the Global Congress on Travel Risk Management, influencing industry best practices and teaching them to corporate clients and organization members at conferences, meetings and webinars throughout the year. Learn more about Charles at charlesbrossman.com, and follow him on Twitter at @travelcharles.

Table of Contents

1. Planning for known and unknown risks2. Assessing your current approach to travel risk management3. Building a proactive travel risk management program4. Travel risk policies, compliance, and supplier safety5. Crisis response6. Kidnap and ransom, extraction and evacuation7. Hotel safety8. Conferences, meetings, and incentive trips9. Enterprise risk management and its relation to travel risk management10. Travel management companies11. Finding the money for travel risk management12. TRM - Setting new standards for what's to come

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

Bridging the gap between travel management, security, and risk management and reaching across departments such as human resources and legal, this book shows how to understand and mitigate the risks associated with business travel, thus enabling businesses to grow, meet their legal obligations, and continue to run smoothly

Editorial Reviews

"...the concepts explained...should be second nature to those who are responsible for the security of travelers… I recommend this book highly to corporate security managers, and especially to executives who travel internationally." —Security Management

"This handbook is an authoritative and comprehensive account of applying what are considered industry best standards for an organization’s travel risk management (TRM) program framework and metrics. It also contains numerous case studies." —Perspectives on Terrorism

"Whether you are a physical security person, or a specialist in business travel, this book is a concise and wise place to turn... In a word, never assume. Or rather; assume at your peril." —Professional Security Magazine Online

"...offers a broad perspective on reducing exposure and liability for corporate travel activities...argues why planning makes sense and how to sell it to senior mgmt." —Security Letter

From the Publisher