Join our Managers, Sitati Wasilwa and Uday Bakhshi explore how APAC Assistance supports multinational companies in high-risk environments by delivering customized travel security assessments. They highlight the critical importance of these assessments in safeguarding high-value assets and ensuring the safety of personnel during travel. They share examples of APAC Assistance’s expertise in planning secure travel in insurgency-affected regions of the Philippines and Indonesia, as well as navigating socio-political challenges in the Middle East, Africa, and Europe. This video provides insights for organizations seeking to protect their teams and assets while operating in some of the world’s most volatile regions.
Why are travel security assessments important for global organizations?
Companies, especially with vast footprints, across multiple sectors have an inherent responsibility to protect their travelers, ensure their security, and pre-empt any potential emerging threats. This means that understanding the specific risk environment is important for such multinationals. Furthermore, localized areas’ risk environments can vary greatly from the country level, especially due to more granular socio-political considerations. The implication here is that, for remote locations in medium to high-risk countries, travel needs to be planned meticulously from a safety and security perspective. From a legal standpoint, it is of utmost importance for global companies to conduct travel security assessments from the vicarious liability point of view.
High-risk regions often face threats such as political instability, terrorism, civil unrest, and crime. Travel security assessments help identify these risks in advance, enabling companies to take proactive measures to mitigate them and protect their employees. Disruptions due to security incidents can severely impact a company’s operations. These assessments help ensure that travel-related risks do not compromise business continuity, allowing operations to proceed smoothly even in volatile environments. Companies that demonstrate a strong commitment to employee safety and risk management enhance their reputation with stakeholders, including employees, customers, and investors. Effective travel security planning shows that the company takes its responsibilities seriously.
How can APAC Assistance support businesses with customized travel security assessments?
We help MNCs understand the local context, security environment culture, and various other factors at a deep level. This allows them to formulate and plan out their travel needs. We avoid the tendency of using extremes. For instance, we believe that no travel or unrestricted travel should not be the main two choices. Instead, we present a more practical safety and security approach that allows businesses to facilitate their company’s operational goals. For example, we recently did custom travel security assessments for clients traveling to high-risk and insurgency-prone locations in the Philippines and Indonesia. We’ve also done a few interesting ones for the EMEA region. We have offered our support to clients who were traveling to Yemen and Azerbaijan when tensions flared and conflicts erupted. These clients not only had travelers but also key business operations in conflict-hit areas of these countries. In some cases, the situation is still ongoing and we are assisting a client in making informed decisions on their operational continuity. For Azerbaijan, we had to monitor and update clients round the clock given the dynamic and fast-changing security environment – to help them protect their assets and business travelers in the region.
As an operational risk management company, APAC Assistance enables multinationals to make better and timely operational risk management decisions by offering customized travel security assessment support.
Don’t wait for a crisis to test your preparedness. Partner with APAC Assistance and benefit from our proven expertise in safeguarding your operations against potential threats.
Contact us today to learn how we can help you protect your business and ensure the safety of your team. For more information, please visit our website or contact our Regional Director, Bhargav Reddy at bhargav_reddy@apacassistance.com. Together, we can build a safer, more secure future for your company.