Must-read for international travellers

FERMA will tomorrow publish a guide to international travel to help businesses better understand their responsibilities towards their employees and dependents and to provide practical recommendations for them to manage the risks and meet those responsibilities.

“Globalisation has spread business operations and interests throughout the world, with the result that today, many employees and contractors, from junior to senior positions, travel for work,” it said. “at the same time, the legal status of the duty of care of organisations and institutions in Europe for their travellers has changed.”

This prompted Ferma and International SOS to prepare a joint paper on travel risk management. The paper – entitled European trends in travel risk management 2015: understanding health, safety and security risk management for work-related international travel and assignments – will be published on Tuesday 5 October during the forum.

The paper contains:


• a preface from the European health and safety agency EUOSHA;

• a review of European directives and national laws applicable for cross- border workers and assignees (with the latest law cases);

• interviews with risk and/or insurance managers from different sectors;
• a travel risk management toolbox; and

• appendices with European country duty of care regulations.