traveler safety & security in the modern world bruce mcindoe february 2012

Traveler Safety & Security in the Modern WorldBruce McIndoeFebruary 2012

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You will learn…

How Global Threats and Business Disruptions Impact Business

About Organizational Liability and Duty of CareTravel Risk Management as a disciplineAbout the Traveler Safety ContinuumHow to benchmark your TRM program and where to focusPrecautions around social media, smartphones, and

laptopsThe Top 10 Reasons Programs Fail

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Major Incidents Every Year…

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Escalating Global Threats

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SOURCES: Georgia Institute of Technology. National Center for Atmospheric Research.The Rand Corporation. The World Health Organization.

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Who do Your Employees Turn to?

1. Pre-trip / assignment destination – safety and security?

2. For immunizations and medical advice?

3. Hotel or residence property selection?

4. When they need help?

5. When an incident occurs?

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Who do You Turn to?

1. For country/city safety/security information?

2. Traveler or Expat safety/security training?

3. What to do in higher-risk environments?

4. Threat against an employee?

5. For a medical emergency?

6. Plane or vehicle crash?

7. Kidnapping?

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Management Questions

• What’s really happening now?

• Who is impacted?

• Where and how does this affect

us?

• Are the right people aware?

• What should we do? When?

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• Who can do it?

• What is our liability if we

don’t?

• What is our competition

doing?

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Legal Deposition – How would you answer?

Death or serious injury to employee

It is well known that this area was risky, why wasn’t the employee notified?

What process do you have in place to understand the risks your employees may face?

What information is provided to the employee before he or she went there?

What did you do to mitigate these hazards?

Who was notified and when? What did they do?

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Management Program Motivators

Organizational Liability Risk Exposure Previous litigation history

Duty of Care What is expected? Anxiety Management

Standard of Care What are others doing?

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What is Travel Risk Management?

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Travel Risk Management

… is a well defined process to identify risks, prepare travelers pre-trip, monitor threats, and respond to incidents as they arise.

Benefits include:• More productive and prepared

employees• Reduced number of costly “incidents” • Lower cost of response• Reduced corporate liability

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Optimal Response Time

The longer it takes an organization to respond to an incident or opportunity, the greater the risks and costs.

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OptimalResponse

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Preparedness Impacts Response Time

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Planning Mitigation Communication Exercises/Drills

PREPAREDNESS

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Multiple Functional Areas Support the Employee

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EMPLOYEE

HR/LEGALFocus on expatriatesResponsible for all

employeesPolicy & proceduresCorporate insurance /

benefitprograms

MEDICAL Pre-trip health planning Immunizations Medical assistance & evacuations for international travelers

TRAVEL Advisor and knowledge base Books trips and handles travel issues Provides reporting

SECURITY Risk assessment Crisis & evacuation plans Emergency contact info Coordinates Response

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Traveler Safety Continuum

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Training• All employees• Management team• Personal protection• Country/region specific

Pre-Trip/Assignment• Crisis management plans• Policy/compliance• Enterprise communication

Access to Intelligence• Travelers/Expatriates• Management (push)• Assess risks/set ratings• Pre-trip (pull)• During travel (Alerts)

Track Employees• Employee profiles• Automated and verified• Real-time alerting• Communication options

Security Service• Executive Protection• Ground Transport• Guards• Evacuation

Medical Service• In-country, Western-quality care• Evacuation

Hotline• 24 x 7 - One Number• Specific protocols• Travel, security, health

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Key Elements of Execution

Proactive

Planning

Reactive

Training Incident Response

24x7Monitoring

Feedback

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How it works – Every Trip!

Country & City Information

Employee

Travel/Security/

HR Manager

TravelAgency/

Booking Tool

Alerts & Notification

Implement Protocol

24x7 Global Employee

Hotline

Report Trouble

Report Issue

Response

Help Provided

Pre-trip/assignment Preparedness

Book Trip or Assignment

Automated Risk Assessment

Automated Trip/Assignment Briefs & Alerts

Alerts & Notification

Report Issue Implement Protocol

Report Trouble

Help Provided

Worldcue®Risk System

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TRM3 - 10 Key Process Areas

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Data Management

RiskAssess-ment

Policy/Procedures

Training

Notification

Communication

RiskDisclosure

RiskMitigation

Risk Monitoring Response

Overarching KPAs

Management KPAs

Infrastructure KPAs

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Measuring your Program Maturity Level

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Program integrated throughout organization

Metrics collected and reviewed. Cross-organization support.

Consistent execution of travel risk management processes.

Basic travel risk management policies defined and documented. Primary focus on incident response.

Ad hoc. Few policies. Chaotic in the event of an emergency.

Optimized (5)

Managed (4)

Proactive (3)

Defined (2)

Reactive (1)

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Social Media Awareness

Do not disclose travel plans on Facebook or other social media sites.

Do not post while on travel – discloses where you are, and are not!

Caution on using Twitter or other IM software in high risk countries

Be cautious of who you “friend” – especially on travel

Consider having two personalities – “Open You” and “Closed You”

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Be Aware! Your mobile telephone has four major vulnerabilities

1. Vulnerability to monitoring of your conversations while using the phone.

2. Vulnerability of your phone being turned into a microphone to monitor conversations in the vicinity of your phone while your phone is inactive.

3. Vulnerability to tracking your phone based on its emitter or GPS data.

4. Vulnerability to "cloning," or the use of your phone number by others to make calls that are charged to your account.

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Smart Phones - Vulnerabilities

Smart phones are powerful computers…Complete with an Operating System and

ApplicationsEvery PC vulnerability can be translated to the

phone… and more!Cross-Service Attacks (LAN, Bluetooth, WiFi,

GSM, etc.)Code vulnerabilities and exploitsMalwareViruses

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What to do?

Backup contacts, email, and calendarsInstall latest OS and security updatesEnable PIN/Password – And remote “Wipe”Record Make/Model/Serial Numbers Maintain continuous control of your devicesLock in safe if you leave in roomDo not use unprotected networksDo not allow web browser to save login &

passwordConsider using a travel phone with limited

data to higher risk locations

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Guidelines for Laptops – Before Travel

Leave all but essential storage devices at home – use encrypted USBs

Enable “user authentication” -- requiring a password or PIN on your device to gain access. Use a strong (combination of number, digit, and special character) password

Load encryption software and encrypt either the whole device (full-disk encryption) or any sensitive files or folders

Ensure operating system, firewall/VPN and Anti-Virus are updated

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Summary – Key Take-Away Thoughts

Protection of human assets is a multidisciplinary effort

Best approach is a risk management framework

Training is critical to overall success Prevention and decision support through real-time intelligence & communication Planning for response minimizes impact

Top 10 Reasons Things Fail…

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Company does not know what to do in an emergency

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Don’t be reactive. Get a basic plan in place and make sure you know where to get help.

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Out of date contact numbers

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Get contact numbers (cell, home, office, e-mail, IM, etc.) for the people that you need in an emergency. Periodically get them updated and verified.

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#8

Primary AND Backup Person are not available

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This happens frequently. Try to have multiple backup contacts. Think about people that are normally available.

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#7

Cell phones don’t always work

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We are becoming totally reliant on cell phones. Try to find a pay phone!

Provide travelers with international cell phones or satellite phones.

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#6

No response resource retained

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Who would you turn to for a kidnapping?

What about a threat against an employee?

Medical emergency? Car accident?

Incident on Vacation?

Make a list of incident types and answer who would I turn to?

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3rd Party response resource does not know what is going on

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Talk to your vendors. Include them in your planning. Run exercises and drills.

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#4

Protocols are not maintained

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Managers and organizations need to periodically review their plans and protocols. At least annually.

Train staff on procedures. Run drills and exercises.

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Protocol or procedure is too complex

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Many times the plans and procedures are way too complex.

Look to streamline the process. In a time of emergency, you will only have time and bandwidth for the basics.

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#2

Inconsistent skill level within the team

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Crisis and emergency management is not the core competency of most travel managers and staff.

Get training for the core team that will be called to deal with an emergency.

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Cost sensitivity delays response

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Deal with where the funds will come from and who will pay BEFORE the event!

Delay in response increases cost and can cost lives.

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THANK YOU!

Every organization needs to address duty of care for all employees

Bruce McIndoe, President, iJET InternationalBruce@iJET.com

Resources

www.ijet.com/GBTA

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