The corporation has significant duty-of-care responsibilities to ensure all their international travelers are prepared and have adequate support if they have an incident while abroad. Issues multiply when an international health incident occurs — from coordinating an evacuation of a critically-injured engineer from a work site in Angola to helping an employee decide if he or she wants to remain on assignment after a robbery in Prague.
While directed at HR professionals, this article from HREOnline.com could just as easily apply to crisis management and prevention in any field. With the very real possibility of tumultuous international relations and worldwide issues, such as swine flu, interfering with the increasingly global nature of business, there are many considerations to be taken when sending employees abroad.
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Jonathan Bernstein
https://www.bernsteincrisismanagement.com/