Aviva has introduced a complimentary Travel Risk Management Maturity Model Self-Assessment tool aimed at empowering businesses to evaluate and mitigate risks associated with employee travel.
Now accessible to both new and current Aviva Business Travel policyholders, the new tool is powered by risk specialist GSA Global. It offers businesses the opportunity to benchmark their travel risk management practices against the ISO 31030 standard.
The globally recognised framework provides guidelines on best practices for managing work-related travel risks, covering areas like policy creation, program execution, risk identification and monitoring, and preventative measures.
The Aviva tool generates a comprehensive summary of a company’s performance in the abovementioned areas, helping to pinpoint where there’s a need for improvement. With structured feedback, businesses can refine their travel policies to enhance the safety of their employees on the road.
Aviva’s Business Travel policy offers a broad array of benefits designed to safeguard travellers. Coverage spans medical and emergency expenses, repatriation, and costs for emergency medical evaluations and accommodations due to accidents or illness abroad.
Additionally, the policy includes standard benefits for situations involving personal property loss, travel delays or cancellations, hijacking, kidnapping and ransom, and legal expenses.
“Investing the time to ensure that travel management policies and procedures meet best practice criteria can help create solutions before problems occur,” said Luke Powis, crisis management head at Aviva.
“Business travellers can face a range of risks, and it’s essential that companies think ahead to ensure staff are protected as much as possible.
“We’re pleased to offer this, and our wellbeing benefits, to new and existing customers at no additional charge – another way Aviva is going above and beyond to support customers and brokers.”
The initiative follows Aviva’s recent expansion of wellbeing support within its Group Personal Accident and Business Travel policies.
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