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comfortable with the local roads, and
should be sure their driver is safe and
always wear seatbelts, and avoid riding
or driving a motorcycle or moped. They
should also alert a third party about their
travel plans.
Organisations should also consider
implementing Journey Risk Management
Planning that includes road condition,
journey timing and duration, climate,
security, communications and emergency
support as well as emergency response
protocols. They should also consider
staging a workshop to get key stakeholder
input and buy-in and develop and
implement policies.
Authors: Michael Chippendale and Erin
Giordano - ISOS.
DID
YOU
KNOW?
…that Germans, Italians, Spanish and British business travellers prefer
journeying by train for business trips
, that Belgians, French, Dutch and
Swiss
prefer the car
and the Portuguese
prefer flying
, says a Go Euro study.
Does your company have a road safety policy? It’s essential wherever
your travellers go, be it emerging markets or domestic journeys.
ISOS
shares its guidelines on managing risk on the road
should ignore the risk in other locations.
Emerging markets and remote locations
may often present high endemic road
risks to business travellers, but business
travellers who self-drive in lower risk
destinations are prone to traffic accidents
as well. Travel fatigue and unfamiliarity
with local road rules and driving culture
can contribute to incidents.
In addition to loss of life or reduced
quality of life, road accidents carry many
other consequences for the survivors,
including legal implications, economic
burden as well as psychological
consequences.
Travellers can play a major role in the
prevention of crashes through education
and sourcing the right information.
They should not self-drive unless very
Every
year, more than 1.2 million people
are killed on roads around the world,
according to the World Health Organisation.
Traffic accidents are a leading cause of
injury and death for business travellers and
expatriates working abroad. In fact, road
accidents are one of the leading reasons
for evacuation of travellers to foreign
countries, according to International SOS
research.
Yet 57% of respondents in a recent
webinar poll said their organisation does
not have a road safety policy. Moreover,
fully 60% said their organisation has
experienced a road safety incident.
Low-and middle-income countries
suffer 90% of the annual deaths and 50
million serious injuries that arise from road
crashes, but that doesn’t mean corporates
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