Security & Awareness Advice for Employees Who Travel on Business

At a time of increased focus on corporate responsibility for health and safety, including business travel 86% of companies whose employees travel on business are unaware of need for pre-travel assessment.

Adhering to the 'duty of care' principle requires Employers to take steps to assess, manage and avoid reasonably foreseeable risks to its employees when travelling on Business. Investing time and resources in risk management strategies can help Employers protect not only its employees safety and wellbeing but also the Employer against claims of negligence or breach of its statutory duties.

For many of our Commercial Clients we recommend Business Travel insurance with Chartis, one of the UK's leading Personal Accident and Business Travel insurance providers. For all their policyholders, Chartis now provide an e-learning security and situation awareness program that helps employers comply with their duty of care to employees who travel on business. Called Travel Angel it provides practical advice about personal security, preperation and arrival, travel health risks, getting around, street crime and robbery, terrorism and unrest. This important protection for employers comes at no extra cost and telephone support is available during working hours.

The program is fully interactive, provides an audit trail and allows policyholders to benchmark employees' awareness levels. The core episode and six modules can be completed individually or together (they take around 45 minutes in total) and are accessible at work, home or whilst travelling.

Access to the Chartis Travel Angel means employees are prepared for their trip before they leave and are aware of risks and how to mitigate them.

How to access Travel Angel?

Travel Angel can be accessed by any Chartis Business Travel policyholder through the Chartis website page www.mylifeline.co.uk, Clicking on the Travel Angel link will take users to the Travel Angel page where there is a direct link through to the client login page. To login the employee enters their employer's Travel Insurance 10 digit policy number.