GlobalSecur® Travel Safety Resource
Global business travel today presents difficult challenges for multi-national organizations and their employees. Locations that once were considered “safe” have become targets for terrorists groups who have shown their willingness to strike indiscriminately, often attacking innocent civilians. Many companies are now expanding their business operations into developing markets that, while accommodating, can quickly become unstable environments. With limited resources, what can organizations and their employees do to help protect themselves from the threats they face overseas?
The answer is GlobalSecur®. This new service from IMG GlobalSecur is an Internet-based tool that prepares your employees for travel by providing them with the information they need to understand the types of threats that exist at their destination and the measures they should take to avoid these threats. The service warns them in advance of threatening situations and health issues and enables your organization to contact them in the aftermath of a crisis or disaster.
Overseas Security Awareness and Monitoring
With GlobalSecur® your travelers can access an online library of articles that contain time-tested steps and strategies that will lower their risk while traveling, as well as daily updates on threat and health conditions at their destination.
GlobalSecur® can also help your organization track international travelers and expatriates. Traveler itineraries can be automatically uploaded to a database that provides for a streamlined search. Mirroring your organization’s travel patterns and overseas presence, IMG continuously monitors world wide threat conditions. Alerts can be quickly sent out to warn of changing conditions, or to determine overseas personnel status in the aftermath of an incident or natural disaster. Our overriding goal has been to provide an effective means of getting the message out and to raise traveler awareness — usually the most difficult and critical parts of any worldwide security program.
GlobalSecur® — accessible via your organization’s Intranet and the Internet — has a number of main features:
- Global Threat Monitoring – provides real-time monitoring of worldwide events that could pose a threat to your employees.
- Itinerary Monitoring Service – your organization can automatically upload travel plans and contact information for expatriates and employees worldwide.
- Real-time Notifications — your overseas personnel can get information in advance of a threat, or can be contacted in the aftermath of a disaster.
- A wide selection of travel safety articles — to help employees prepare for their overseas travel and work, your overseas personnel have access to practical information based on IMG’s extensive overseas security experience.
- Extensive library of security-related articles — in areas such as General Travel Safety, Security Awareness, Corporate Travel Safety and Personal Protection Measures, Useful Travel Safety Web Links, and more.
- In-Depth Intelligence Reports — continuously updated and threat-rated reports on over 180 countries and 250 cities. Customized, pre-travel briefing documents.
- Travel-Related Health Resources — Comprehensive travel health advice, that includes up-to-date information on recommended/required vaccinations/inoculations and health advice for every country in the world.
- Self-Assessment Checklists — sophisticated yet easy to use questionnaires that provide overseas personnel with instant feedback on their security awareness, status and preparedness.
- “Virtual Consultant” — your overseas personnel can have access to emergency contact numbers and a “Submit Question” feature that allows for a quick email response to questions on any security topic.
- Affordable Pricing — GlobalSecur® is affordably priced for organizations large and small.
Support Components and Services
The effectiveness of tracking your international travelers and expatriates depends on IMG having a thorough and continuous understanding of your overseas operations, world wide threat conditions and risk exposure. Although the GlobalSecur® software component is an important proactive asset, IMG’s continuous and hands-on commitment is one of the prime differentiators of this service.
Traveler itineraries can be obtained directly from your existing travel provider for automatic upload to a database that provides for a streamlined search. Alerts by SMS, email or voice message can quickly be sent out to warn of changing conditions, or to determine the status of your overseas personnel in the aftermath of an incident or natural disaster.
IMG’s support services are truly comprehensive. IMG’s core security competencies are seamlessly integrated into GlobalSecur® proactive components and include risk assessment, threat analysis and intervention, comprehensive overseas event and meeting services, provision and due diligence of ground and air transportation, executive and personal protection, strategic downsizing, international site and protection protocols, etc.
Apart from our own core competencies, IMG has a solid business relationship two major, reputable leaders in corporate intelligence and worldwide aviation security services. These services include a relationship with an internationally-known medical services provider, and optional components such as political and medical evacuation, and crisis management (including kidnap/recovery) underwriting.
Equally important, IMG has over the years continued to maintain personal contact with senior security executives in many of the country’s largest companies - in financial, automotive, pharmaceutical, chemical, energy, high technology, consumer foods, aviation and other industry sectors. These essential contacts frequently provide IMG with accurate perspectives on their global own security activities and, when necessary, make available their trusted in-country resources.
The combination of these services, together with IMG’s long-standing professional relationship with many of the world’s law enforcement and security service entities provide an additional perspective and support for coverage of security-related issues and events.
Completely Customizable
Every aspect of your GlobalSecur® site and service is completely customizable to suit your company’s needs. You can integrate your travel policies, worldwide protection standards, travel health program, incident reporting, company forms, contact details, and more to suit your needs. In fact for some of IMG’s clients GlobalSecur® has become a one-stop reference for overseas employees and a focal point of their global protection programs.
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