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Business travel health and safety: an OHR survey

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Source: Occupational Health Review

Issue: 130

Date: 01/11/2007

Publisher: RBI

Business travel health and safety: an OHR survey

TOPICS:

HR policy and strategy	work organisation
health and safety	incidents health and safety management employee health

SECTORS:
chemicals
public services
transport and communication

The travel health policies of UK employers tend to be reactive and ad hoc, but many are moving towards an integrated, risk-management approach, according to a recent survey carried out by OHR.

On this page:
Travel health policies
Vaccination and anti-malaria policy
Health promotion and awareness-raising
Personal safety and behavioural awareness
Jet lag and travel stress
Disease management and follow-up
Future trends
Our research
Box 1: Pre-travel assessments
Box 2: Expatriates and other special groups

Key points

UK employers tend to adopt a reactive, ad hoc approach to travel health medicine, although those with significant numbers of regular business travellers are more likely to integrate travel health with other risk management policies.

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