The world has become significantly more dangerous for business travelers and especially for those who are given short or long-term assignments away from their home base of operations. Dramatic changes in conditions across the domestic landscape as well as across the world have driven significant enhancements to corporate travel security programs. Risks that enterprises need to consider when sending someone on business travel or assignment away from home evolve in many forms, such as:
Governments around the world have increasingly begun to implement new laws and regulations that affect how enterprises deal with the security and safety of their personnel while on business travel or foreign assignment. The United Kingdom, for example, established the Corporate Manslaughter Act which dictates criminal proceedings and potential imprisonment for corporate executives who fail to provide appropriate measures for the security and safety of their personnel while at work or while on temporary or long-term assignment. Similar health and safety-related laws have been instituted in Australia, Finland and a host of other countries. Beyond government-imposed laws and regulations, there are a broad range of standards that have evolved out of civil tort case law.