Duty of care among biggest concerns

ORGANISING correct entry documents, health and medical issues, and terrorism and security threats are the top three concerns for managers when their staff travel on business trips, new research from ABTA has revealed.

However, there are some marked differences between managers’ concerns and the actual problems encountered by their staff. For example, 60% of managers expressed concerns over terrorism or security related issues, but only 6% said their staff had actually experienced those problems. When asked what problems staff had encountered on business trips in the last year, the top three issues were natural disasters or severe weather conditions (18%), health or medical issues (15%) and issues around organising correct entry documents (13%). Over half of managers (51%) said that none of their staff had encountered any problems on business trips over the last 12 months.