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<strong>Coffee</strong> & <strong>Consulting</strong><br />

@ your Desk:<br />

<strong>Business</strong> <strong>Travel</strong> <strong>Risk</strong> <strong>Management</strong>


<strong>Risk</strong>s with business trips<br />

Brexit<br />

• Security risks<br />

• Crime<br />

• Terrorism<br />

• Political and social unrest<br />

• Natural disasters<br />

• Health risks<br />

• Illness<br />

• Accident<br />

• Pandemics / Epidemics<br />

• Compliance risks<br />

• Registration procedures / work permits<br />

• Labor law (working hours / holidays / salary)<br />

• Taxes<br />

• Social security<br />

Brexit<br />

<strong>Business</strong> <strong>Travel</strong> <strong>Risk</strong><br />

<strong>Management</strong><br />

with emergency plans and<br />

security concepts as well<br />

as overview of the<br />

whereabouts of travellers<br />

indispensable<br />

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Corona<br />

Brexit<br />

• Entry and Quarantine rules.<br />

• Internal policies include:<br />

• Regulations on when travel is allowed,<br />

• who may authorize travel,<br />

• under what circumstances travel is<br />

permitted,<br />

• when return from abroad is no longer<br />

possible,<br />

• possible assistance providers,<br />

• hospitals with European standards,<br />

• quarantine options,<br />

• repatriation<br />

<strong>Travel</strong> <strong>Risk</strong> <strong>Management</strong><br />

related to Corona /<br />

pandemics<br />

Brexit<br />

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<strong>Business</strong> <strong>Travel</strong> <strong>Risk</strong> <strong>Management</strong><br />

Brexit<br />

Brexit<br />

• Reasons:<br />

• Duty of care of a company<br />

• Compliance with legal and ethical<br />

obligations<br />

• <strong>Travel</strong> <strong>Risk</strong> Assessment<br />

• Employee tracking tools<br />

• Training of employees on how to recognize<br />

risks and prevent and deal with dangerous<br />

situations<br />

• Regulations<br />

• <strong>Business</strong> travel and expenses<br />

• Safety and emergency<br />

• Processes<br />

• Internal crisis team or external service<br />

providers for monitoring, analyzing and<br />

informing employees<br />

<strong>Travel</strong> <strong>Risk</strong> Assessment:<br />

• Identification regarding<br />

all risks during the<br />

business trip<br />

• Protection of<br />

the employee<br />

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Monitoring of destinations<br />

Brexit<br />

Brexit<br />

• Political instability and unrest (e.g. websites of the FDFA /<br />

Federal Foreign Office)<br />

• Health<br />

• Necessary vaccinations<br />

• Information on doctor / hospital<br />

• Accommodation<br />

• Reception / emergency plan<br />

• Typical precautions: no room on the ground floor,<br />

"do not disturb" sign when not in the room<br />

• Safety and protection for female staff<br />

• Global <strong>Business</strong> <strong>Travel</strong> Association and AIG Insurance<br />

Report of 2018 - 83% of women had a safety issue<br />

while travelling on business.<br />

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<strong>Business</strong>-<strong>Travel</strong> <strong>Risk</strong> <strong>Management</strong><br />

Brexit<br />

<strong>Business</strong> travel risk management already in<br />

place:<br />

• Monitoring of business travel destinations<br />

• Constant checking of the situations in the<br />

individual regions<br />

• Checking automatic travel booking systems<br />

in regard to the necessary information and<br />

to what extent the bookings (internal and<br />

external) can be made flexibly and quickly<br />

enough<br />

• Checking existing health and safety<br />

regulations and processes<br />

• Checking existing processes in regard to<br />

legal aspects (labor, social security, tax and<br />

licensing law)<br />

• Review existing insurance policies<br />

• Improving the confidence of employees<br />

Brexit<br />

<strong>Business</strong> travel risk management not yet in<br />

place:<br />

• Assess the scope, context and risks within<br />

the company based on business travel<br />

• Definition of travel risk management<br />

processes and creation of regulations<br />

• Conclusion of possible insurances /<br />

contracts with external service providers<br />

• Operational implementation<br />

• Constant monitoring and reporting<br />

TIP<br />

September 2021 - first official<br />

guidance on business travel<br />

security - ISO 31030:2021<br />

containing: structured<br />

approach to the development,<br />

implementation, evaluation<br />

and review of a travel policy<br />

and a travel risk management<br />

program<br />

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Your host<br />

Friederike V. Ruch, CEO<br />

Ms. Ruch is specialized in the field of cross-border employee assignments for more than 20 years and advises<br />

internationally operating companies and executives on issues such as tax, social security and licensing law, on<br />

payroll and compensation as well as on structuring and optimizing the assignment management. Ms. Ruch is<br />

one of the most experienced experts in Switzerland in the field of international employee assignments and is<br />

the author of various specialist publications, such as the practical handbook "Expatriates-Inpatriates /<br />

Handbuch zur Entsendung von Mitarbeitern" (580 pages).<br />

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Disclaimer<br />

The content of this presentation is for general guidance only<br />

and should by no means be used as a substitute for an<br />

individual consultation with professional accounting, tax, legal<br />

or other competent advisers. While we have made every<br />

attempt to ensure that the information delivered with this<br />

presentation has been obtained from reliable sources,<br />

CONVINUS is not responsible for any errors or omissions, or for<br />

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