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3 Tips to Ensure Your Employees’ Safety During Business Trips

Travelling has always been an important part of business. Some travel for networking purposes, whereas others do so to build brand awareness or, let’s say, to tap into a new market.

Zippia’s recent survey reveals that about 35% of businesses in the U.S. engage in travel every year. In 2023, West Virginia ranked as the top state for doing business due to low costs, followed by Missouri, Oklahoma, and Ohio. Arkansas, though smaller than the average U.S. state, earned the 15th spot.

Whether your employees are travelling to explore locations for your business or participate in a trade show, ensuring their safety throughout the trip is paramount. Here, we’ll share a few tips that will help you keep your team safe while they’re travelling for work

3 Tips to Ensure Your Employees’ Safety During Business Trips

1. Develop a Comprehensive Travel Safety Policy

A robust travel safety policy is essential to ensure the safety and well-being of your employees when they are on the road. Consider creating one before your employees set out on a corporate trip. Such a policy serves as a roadmap for employees, providing them with clear guidelines and procedures to follow before, during, and after their trips.

Start by outlining guidelines for booking transportation and accommodations. Emphasize the importance of selecting reputable providers with a strong safety record while including preferred providers. Provide clear instructions on how employees should handle emergencies, including whom they should contact, as well as the procedures for reporting incidents.

Developing a comprehensive travel safety policy will help mitigate potential risks and ensure that your employees are prepared to travel safely and confidently for work.

2. Live-Track Your Travelers

When your employees are on a corporate trip, keeping track of their whereabouts in real time is important.

Implementing a travel tracking system is one way to live-track your employees. A travel tracker system with geolocation tracking offers real-time visibility into the itineraries of your employees. These systems also send timely alerts and notifications to employers in case of emergencies. Employers can quickly locate employees and take prompt action.

If your employees are planning a road trip, consider integrating telematics into their cars. Telematics systems allow for real-time transmission of a vehicle’s location, speed, distance travelled, and gas consumption.

Besides allowing you to track employees in real-time, this information can serve as evidence in case of an accident.

Car accidents are far too common in U.S. states. Take, for example, Fayetteville. Just a couple of weeks ago, a 47-year-old woman was killed in a head-on collision on North Crossover Road in Fayetteville.

Sarah Brasswell of Elkins, who was driving a Subaru, hit the Toyota head-on. The Toyota was standing still, waiting for traffic to clear to turn left into a private driveway. The driver of the Toyota was injured as a result of the collision.

What would you do if your employees had been involved in such an accident without any fault of their own? Establishing liability in car accidents is often difficult. But integrating telematics into your vehicle will make it easy for your employees.

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A Fayetteville car accident lawyer can help your employees prove that the accident didn’t take place because of their fault but due to the other party’s. The real-time data offered by telematics can help your employees prove they weren’t speeding. Information about the application of brakes or idling time can further help them prove they were driving responsibly, whereas the other party wasn’t.

Proving the other person’s fault will help your employee recover compensation. Keith Law Group explains that Arkansas is a tort state or at-fault state. That means if an accident takes place in Fayetteville or another city in Arkansas, the at-fault party will compensate for the damages. Your employees will receive fair compensation if they prove the accident occurred due to the fault of the other party.

3. Provide Round-the-Clock Travel Support

Emergencies can happen anywhere and at any time. That is why you must provide your employees with access to 24/7 support services.

Whether it’s a lost passport, a medical emergency, or a cancelled flight, knowledgeable personnel must be there to assist your employees who are on business trips. Knowing someone is there to help them around the clock helps alleviate anxiety and navigate challenges with ease.

It’s virtually impossible for your in-house employees to offer 24/7 support to those on trips. In that case, consider partnering with travel management companies. These often have dedicated travel support teams who provide assistance to travellers over message, call, or email. Thus, your employees will be able to get out of uneasy situations quickly and efficiently.

To sum things up, ensuring your employees are safe during corporate trips isn’t just a moral obligation. It’s rather a strategic imperative that directly impacts the well-being of your team, the reputation of your organization, and the overall success of your business endeavors.

Incorporating these tips will help you ensure the safety of your team no matter where they go. Remember, investing in your employees’ safety will pay off in terms of employee loyalty, retention, and organizational resilience.

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A GOOD CHARACTER – HARRISON AVRUKPERE

I don’t know who you are. I don’t know what skills you may have but if you lack character you may crash.

It’s like the cement that holds the bricks of your life together.

Your skills can take you far, your talent can open doors for you, your gift can make room for you but without the wisdom of behaviour, you can be sent packing before you even settle.

People may tolerate you because of the quality of your skill or expertise but they may never be proud to recommend you to others because of the experience they had with you.

It is the silent truth they may never tell you.

So as you evolve, let there be an upgrade in the way you behave.

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You see, personal development should never be without the building of one’s character. It is like the foundation that determines the height of your building.

The next level of the life you desire can be in jeopardy because of the quality of your character.

You need to become that person that can attract and sustain whatever you desire.

And building your character begins with understanding how to manage your emotions and be in control of them.

It is the wisdom of intelligence to be in control of your thoughts, words, actions, response and behaviour.

Don’t say it doesn’t matter, because it might be too late for you to realize its importance.

It is good for you to be who you are but no one wants to be with people that are toxic with their character. So upgrade to a better you.

Lastly. your character is like your smell. You can either smell nice or smell bad.

But in all you do, have the willingness to develop a good character and become a better you

I pray you to understand this before its too late.

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THE MATHEMATICS OF THE ‘GRACE’ CONSTANT

I believe we all know about the word GRACE.!!! Everybody talks about Grace we pray for its effects and manifestation always as believers but I have come to discover more.

Grace is a constant in every mans life the value of the constant is what varies…

You are alive by His grace, but we are not all on the same level as regards life also by His Grace. The fact that you are alive is by the grace of God and His mercy that is endless but the level of life you enjoy of you are exposed to is also by the grace of God. HEB 4: 2 For we also received the good news just as they did; but the message they heard was of no value to them, since they did not share the faith of those who comprehended it.

Just like 24 hours is for every living being on earth but we all make the most or the least out of it, thus, it reflects in the quality of life we live. This is the reason we are not having the same results in Life although same 24hours of the day.

The Grace upon a man’s life is not equal to that upon his neighbour, but they both carry grace. Two students in the same classroom under the same teacher and condition might not produce the same result at the end of the day This is not because the grace is not there but what is attached to the grace vary.

WHAT IS GRACE?

In Western Christian theology, GRACE is “the love and mercy given to us by God because God desires us to have it, not necessarily because of anything we have done to earn it“. It is not a created substance of any kind. … It is an attribute of God that is most manifest in the salvation of sinners.

Every living soul is entitled to this grace constant, but just as life is in levels so also grace.

Grace covers great errors and colours little efforts. It brings result your capacity cannot comprehend or achieve on your own. It is not a function of what you can do but what God can do. It’s upon everyman but is it the same way for every man, I repeat No!!!!

Now let’s look at it mathematically,

G = GRACE
E= EFFORT
R = RESULT

G * E = R

if the grace upon a man’s life is 10G and he puts in an effort of 10E His results become 100R because Grace multiplies effort…

10G * 10E = 100R

Without Grace (G) his effort (E) will produce his result (R) and in no way would that be a pass mark

10E = 10R

However, if his neighbour has a grace level of 5G and the same effort of 10E as well but his result will be 50R

5G * 10E = 50R

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Then He complains, we are doing the same thing and He is making more progress…….Hmmmmmmm!!!

Remember the parable of talents ??? Everyman according to their several abilities……he who could not trade with his, it was taken from him and given to that which had 10 already. Matt 25: 14 – 30

see the clause more was given to he that had much

THE MATHEMATICS OF THE ‘GRACE’ CONSTANT

Now, what makes the former have a 10G and his neighbour a 5G is what we will discuss now. Every relationship we have as humans don’t fall on the same ladder in our order of preference so also God. God loves everyone the same way but doesn’t relate to everyone the same way as well. His word says turn to me and I will turn to you. ZECH 1; 3Therefore say thou unto them, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Turn ye unto me, saith the LORD of hosts, and I will turn unto you, saith the LORD of hosts.

This constant could be a result of 2 Factors.

1. Covenant

Like Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob…which could reflect on the life of the Israelites God referred frequently to His covenant with them. Thus, a man as well could enjoy A Higher Level Of Grace, as a result of the covenant his fathers made with God.

Thus, don’t judge people that are making it now even when they don’t know God as well as u do….someone might have paid the price for him or her.. But no matter what it is only a matter of time because God values the relationship with His children, so if you are so far away you might get lost even after carrying Grace, it must be activated. Grace was upon the Israelites as they left Egypt God’d covenant kept speaking but only Caleb and Joshua Made it to the Promise land from the generation that stepped out of Egypt.

2.Relationship

This is what we enjoy as Christians. The more cordial your relationship with Jesus becomes the more of His grace you enjoy day by day. JOHN 1: 16 Out of his fullness we have all received grace in place of grace already given.

Great Grace… ACTS; 4; 33 And with great ability and power the apostles were continuously testifying to the resurrection of the Lord Jesus, and great grace [God’s remarkable lovingkindness and favour and goodwill] rested richly upon them all.

Someone once said we could be age mates but not Grace Mates…..

Without Grace effort can lead to frustration and vice versa they work hand in hand…Just Like Faith without works is Vain…

Kindly comment below on your thoughts and share if this message blesses you

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THE IMPORTANCE OF TOLERANCE – Harrison A.

Listen, what you are about to read will be a game-changer to the way you perceive life…

Because you’ll surely encounter what I’m about to tell you.

So read on.

Every single day you will encounter things that would either irritate you or things that you wouldn’t vibe with.

These things could be the way someone speaks, the manner in which someone talks, the way they do their things, their manner of approach, their line of thought, or their attitude in general. And this could come from anybody

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And one thing is this you’ll always feel a form of irritation whenever things don’t fit into your own perception of how they should be and as a human being, they will be this urge for you to respond in an act of correction in order to align these things to your own perception. Sometimes we do it harshly other times will do it calmly.

Because in as much as we’ve been taught not to tolerate rubbish from people it is also important we understand the wisdom to relate with people’s inadequacies so we don’t act like a sensor to a remote.

You see one thing you must understand is that people’s level of intelligence differs. Not everyone has the same level of understanding as you do. Not everyone has the same concept of how things are to be done as you do.

Not everyone has the same mannerism as you do.

When you understand this you’ll be able to see things from a different perspective and understand the wisdom to deal with people’s inadequacies.

THE IMPORTANCE OF TOLERANCE – Harrison A.

The truth of it is that we must train ourselves not to allow any slight irritations from people’s behaviour or manner to get to us always or make us angry.

People shouldn’t be able to predict the things that will easily trigger your anger.

You see maturity isn’t just in age but the ability for you to have a level of fortitude not to allow things get to you easily.

You must embrace the shield of tolerance to be able to accommodate people and their inadequacies even as you seek better ways to show them lightly from your light.

You know it is good not to tolerate rubbish from people but it is a great strength as a leader to be able to work with different kind of people with their different character in unison – and tolerance is one weapon you must embrace because people act based on their level of knowledge and exposure and people behave based on their belief system.

We must therefore learn to tolerate people to some level so we don’t sound like a clashing cymbal all the time.

Of course, you shouldn’t agree with everybody’s lifestyle but you should have the wisdom to relate with them.

And to the wise tolerance doesn’t mean acceptance rather it is the wisdom to know how to deal with a situation at the right time and in the right way. This is the mystery of tolerance.

I hope it makes sense to you.

I am Harrison.