Business Travel Security: corporate travel security

BUSINESS TRAVEL
SECURITY

AIRO provides companies with its consulting services aimed at protecting assets, resources, and business continuity.

Risks in business trips

Legislative Decree No. 81 of April 9, 2008, has required employers to equip themselves with tools to reduce or, where possible, eliminate risks in the workplace.
The concept of Safety, meaning the prevention of workplace injuries or illnesses related to work activities, has finally gained a prominent position in business management.
What many companies still ignore is that the mentioned regulatory revolution addresses the reduction or elimination of ALL RISKS by tackling the dual aspect of safety, namely Safety and also Security.
The former deals with typical risks arising from work activities and originating exclusively from within the company, while the latter addresses atypical criminal risks originating both from within the company and often from outside.
Below are some examples of atypical risks that threaten workers and the company as a whole, including infrastructure, material assets, ideas, patents, human resources, in a condition of maximum legality, etc...


EXTERNAL RISKS

Related to sending personnel abroad:

• terrorism
• piracy
• subversion
• kidnapping for extortion or terrorist purposes
• robbery and murder as a consequence of another crime

Protection of people and business continuity

Presence abroad has become a strategic aspect for a company's competitiveness and success; however, internationalization procedures lead to an exponential increase in Security risk.

Security prevention and planning

The activity called "Business Travel Security and Crisis management" deals with:

• analyzing criminal threats to which employees and infrastructures abroad are exposed. This activity is based on geopolitical and criminological analysis of the area of interest
• analyzing the consequent risks (risk is the probability that the aforementioned threat will materialize)
• analyzing the possible impact on the company and estimating potential damages. This is a very complex procedure, carried out in close collaboration with other stakeholders of the company
• analyzing which risks are acceptable and which are not, in terms of business continuity and potential damages
• develop prevention protocols for unacceptable damages
• estimate the costs of implementing prevention procedures and compare them with the potential damages resulting from the absence of the protocol, to decide whether it is more effective to implement the defensive measure or if it is preferable to take the risk (no risk to an employee can be considered acceptable)
• present the analysis to the company executives and subsequently draft the "Risk Assessment Document"
• operationalize the protocols decided by the company executives. The operational phase consists of implementing the prevention protocols
• monitor and coordinate the security apparatus by intervening with corrections. It is the responsibility of the Security manager to adjust the protocols, making them more efficient in terms of effectiveness and cost
• tackle crises operationally, resolving them as quickly as possible. Resilience is the company's ability to return to full operational and structural integrity, as it existed before the crisis. Resilience depends on the good work previously done by the Security team and its ability to intervene operationally.