Business Travel Risk

Business travel risk management is fundamental for organisational resilience and business continuity management. It is essential to guard against security threats and follow business travel best practices.

Our Business Travel Security Course will help your employees learn about the planning and organisation needed for business trips.

This includes the policy and procedures to follow, how to avoid scams, stay safe and what action to take on their return.

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45 Minutes
All staff
Based on best-practice risk management frameworks and suitable for global audiences.
Global Risk Management Library

Learning objectives

Understand the nature of business travel risk
Understand the different stages of a business trip
Recognise the key actions and behaviours you need to take to keep yourself safe and to comply with your Company policies while travelling on business

Welcome

Learning objectives
How to complete this course

Why business travel?

Scenario: Denzil reflects on business travel risk

Subcategories of business travel risk

Stages of business trip

STR Global Group's upcoming business trips

Getting approval

Researching the destination

Which topics should be researched?

Planning the trip

Preparing for the trip

Scenario: Accessing data when travelling
Scenario: Additional data security measures when travelling

Going on the trip

At the airport
Scenario: Drishti arrives at her destination
Scenario: The arrivals lounge

Facilitation payments

You decide: Is it appropriate?

General safety precautions

Common travel scams to avoid
Scenario: Hans' trip

Tackling specific business travel risk

Scenario: Ayonna's experience

In an emergency

High-risk jurisdictions

Debriefing

Summary

Affirmation

Assessment

Your questions, answered

Common FAQs

Are Skillcast courses SCORM-compliant?

Yes. This means they can be delivered via the Skillcast Portal or any other SCORM-compliant Learning Management System.

What other tools are needed beyond training?

A comprehensive compliance solution often needs more than just training. Alongside e-learning, tools like declarations, surveys, and registers that track compliance tasks are usually essential. Skillcast provides full support to help you set up these additional tools.

Is our training content still compliant with the latest legislation?

You can check the latest course content updates in our library updates page: https://www.skillcast.com/compliance-course-library-updates
For major legislative changes, we:
- Will send you email alerts to ensure you are notified
- Offer you a free trial of newly created or updated content
- Host webinars with compliance experts to explain the changes and how our training supports your ongoing compliance

Can you translate our content into other languages?

Yes, we offer translations in a wide range of languages. Let us know your needs, and we’ll confirm availability or work with you to plan translations for your selected modules.

How can I give employees a secure way to record suspicious activity so we can act quickly?

Our Suspicious Activity Register allows staff to log concerns or irregularities they observe, helping you detect potential issues early. The secure register can be reviewed by compliance teams, enabling prompt investigation and action.

What file types are supported by the Skillcast system?

Features	Supported file types and details
File Exchange	File types: PDF, Excel spreadsheets, Word documents, SCORM and xAPI files, and compressed zip files. Max file size: Default is 1GB, can be increased to a max of 2GB
SCORM files	Versions: SCORM 1.2, SCORM 1.2 for Moodle, SCORM 2004 2nd, 3rd and 4th Edition. Max file size: 1024MB
xAPI file	Max file size: 2GB
Videos	File types: MP4 or MOV. Videos must be optimised, with a max file size of 100MB. If the file is bigger, our Design Team can help
Images	File types: jpg, png and gif. The file size should ideally be 100KB, but it can be up to 250KB
CPD evidence	File types: Word, PDF, Excel and CSV. File size: the limit should be whatever the portal config option is set to. Servers are set to max 2GB
Policy documents	PDF or Word File size: the limit should be whatever the portal config option is set to. Servers are set to max 2GB
Offline activities evidence	File types: PDF, DOC, DOCX, XLS, XLSX, CSV, PNG, GIF, JPEG, JPG, PPTX and MSG. File size: the limit should be whatever the portal config option is set to. Servers are set to max 2GB
Client logo files	File types provided by client: EPS, PDF, AI and SVG
Registers	PDF, DOC, DOCX, XLS, XLSX, CSV, PPT, PPTX, POT, PPA, PPS, JPG, JPEG, PJEPG, PNG, BMP, GIF, MP4, MOV, WMV, CPTX, CP, TXT, ZIP and MSG files
Declarations	JPG, JPEG, PNG, GIF, XLS and XLSX files