When you’re packing for a holiday or business trip, it’s obvious what the essentials are: clothing, toiletries, medication and a basic first aid kit, but there are some simple yet unexpected items that are worth squeezing into your suitcase that could help to prevent emergencies and potentially save lives.

Summer is in full swing and Europe is getting ready for the summer vacation. With all the holiday excitement, travellers may not prioritise safety. Here are RiskPal’s top 10 travel safety tips to keep you safe wherever you go.

Without knowing it, travellers everywhere are tapping into a powerful method used even by NASA to ensure they have everything they need at their destination. It is, of course, the humble holiday checklist.

Digital transformation is a hot topic in higher education. As universities face mounting costs and greater competition, they are having to seek new opportunities in terms of attracting students and revenues.

All businesses have a duty of care to protect their people, especially when their teams are travelling for work.

RiskPal is an enabler rather than end-to-end solution to achieving the ISO 31030 guidance.

A risk assessment process should be applied to all forms of work travel, this lead us to explore how ISO 31030 is relevant to risk assessment.

Getting started with ISO 31030 can be a daunting prospect. But it need not seem like a mountain to climb and most organisations will already have many of the components in place.

ISO 31030 provides guidance for travel risk management. It was published in 2021 and provides an “umbrella framework to encourage more joined-up and collective ownership of travel risk”.