The retailer Marks and Spencer, Nestle and Johnson & Johnson were among winners of charity International SOS Foundation’s 2017 Global Duty of Care Awards, presented in Berlin. The ceremony marked companies and individuals for work on mitigation of travel, health and security risk and protecting their business travellers.
The dozen judges, who included Nick Allan, CEO for Control Risks Europe and Africa, reviewed entries representing 17 industries and organisations from 32 countries, including household names such as Shell, Citibank and Samsung.
M&S gained a ‘communications award’ for their travel security app, journey management protocols and a ‘location check-in’ to high-risk places.
An ‘Ambassador of Duty of Care Award’ went to Gian-Rico Luzzi. His master’s degree dissertation on the maturity of contemporary travel security risk management was nominated for the UK Association of Security Consultants’ (ASC) annual Imbert Prize, in 2015. In 2014, Gian-Rico approached the British Standards Institute (BSI) to propose development of a new standard on business travel security. He, with International SOS and others, helped create the PAS 3001:2016: Travelling for work, the responsibilities of an organisation for health, safety and security; a guideline, published in 2016.
An ‘innovation award’ went to the multi-national industrial product company ABB, whose 30,000 international travellers take over 200,000 trips per year. Last year it brought in a new travel risk management process and travel approval system when it merged its existing protocols with a technology platform from an external provider. That replaced a legacy system that required manual data entry. Its new platform automates pre-trip advisories, offers e-learning and requires management approval before departure. For high-risk places, employees get travel briefings.
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Arnaud Vaissié, Co-Founder, CEO and Chairman of the medical and security emergency response company International SOS, represented the International SOS Foundation and said: “The Duty of Care awards recognise the impact that participants have to protect their people. More and more the focus is on prevention and on proactive measures that can be taken to mitigate risks. Companies are examining threats on a granular basis – by location and by personal risk factors. They are adapting preventive strategies to keep their employees healthy, safe and secure. The entries this year, explore the pragmatic application of Duty of Care programmes for a mobile workforces.”
