Localised critical events often happen and can threaten the safety of your travelling employees if they are in the vicinity. Vismo offers easy-to-use, secure solutions that combine the latest technologies in threat intelligence, mass notification techniques and real-time incident management.
Reach employees in seconds when an incident occurs with Mass Notification. Using live intelligence feeds into the Vismo Secure Portal, combined with geo-fencing, organisations can immediately send targeted messages to employees in the proximity of an incident to provide critical information and assist with safe evacuation. All with a full audit trail.
Threat intelligence tools offer a comprehensive understanding of daily risks and threats worldwide. Vismo acts as a conduit for this risk intelligence, marrying it with the known location of your employees, as well as safe and unsafe locations your organisation will have pre-defined to effectively help modify travel itineraries and schedules.
Vismo partners with the world’s leading providers of risk knowledge to deliver high-quality intelligence which is AI or human-verified and analysed, to ensure organisations can quickly respond when an incident or event occurs. Having a single app that collates and feeds this knowledge simply into your global or domestic workforce helps create certainty and assurance for all stakeholders.
Travel risk management is the process of identifying, assessing and mitigating the risks faced by employees when they travel for work — whether domestically or internationally. It covers everything from pre-trip travel risk assessment and security briefings through to real-time monitoring, incident response and post-incident support.
For organisations with a legal duty of care to employees travelling to high-risk or unfamiliar locations, corporate travel risk management is not optional — it is a compliance and governance requirement. Business travel risk management programmes typically include threat intelligence feeds, real-time location tracking, mass notification capability and defined escalation protocols for when an incident occurs.
Vismo’s platform delivers all of these capabilities in a single system — combining travel security management with employee location tracking, mass notification and threat intelligence. It is built for security directors, risk managers and HR teams who need people risk management tools that work in the field, not just on paper.
What should a travel risk management policy include?
A travel risk management policy should cover: pre-travel approval and travel risk assessment requirements, country-level threat tiering, employee check-in protocols, emergency contact and escalation procedures, and the tools employees must use when travelling. Vismo’s platform can underpin each of these requirements with live tracking, automated check-ins and mass notification capability.
Do employers have a duty of care to travelling employees?
Yes. UK employers have a duty of care to employees under the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 and common law — and this extends to employees travelling internationally. The duty of care to employees UK obligation means organisations must take reasonable steps to identify foreseeable risks and put appropriate safeguards in place. For travelling staff, this typically means maintaining visibility of their location, providing access to threat intelligence and having an incident response plan ready.
What should I look for in a travel risk management company?
A travel risk management company should offer real-time employee location tracking, integration with threat intelligence feeds, mass notification for large-scale incidents, and scalable travel risk management solutions that work across different risk levels and geographies. Vismo provides all of these in a single platform, with satellite device options for locations without cellular coverage.
How does Vismo support international travel risk assessment?
Vismo supports international travel risk assessment by combining real-time employee location data with partner threat intelligence feeds. Security teams can see where employees are on a live map, receive automated alerts when staff enter high-risk zones, and trigger mass notifications across the entire workforce if a major incident occurs. This gives risk managers the situational awareness they need to act before situations escalate.
