duty of care and travel risk management: due diligence
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http://intelligenttravel.com.au/ What Due Diligence is required in order to demonstrated Duty of Care to your business travellers? Find out in this chapter on travel health, safety, security and risk management.TRANSCRIPT
CHAPTER FIVE
Due Diligence
Duty of Care: A Buyer’s Guide to Travel Health, Safety and Security
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Due Diligence: It is not enough to simply state you have a plan and a process. Both standard business conven9ons and the courts require you to prove it. As with everything else, there is a basic compliance and evidence process that you must demonstrate in order to be truly compliant or prepared.
In accordance with the specified practices and requirements within the health and safety act/s, here is the basis for demonstrating due diligence: 1. Knowledge of the relevant laws and standards 2. Relevance to your business and activity 3. Resources allocation specifically for this purpose 4. Processes to support the plan and maintenance 5. Compliance to the laws and resulting plan/strategy 6. Verification it exists and applied routinely
Duty of Care: A Buyer’s Guide to Travel Health, Safety and Security
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Fact Not Belief: Unless you can prove it, by means of demonstra9on, compliance and verifiable audits, it doesn’t exist. That simple! What you believe and what you can prove in a court of law are two vastly different terms of reference.
1. Knowledge
2. Relevance
3. Resources
4. Processes
5. Compliance
6. Verifica9on
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