General

The COVID-19 is still raging around the world. All countries are trying to overcome the negative impact of the epidemic and strive to ensure smooth economic development and business exchanges. China has also opened a green channel for business people with neighboring countries such as South Korea and Singapore to maintain normal international economic and trade exchanges. The International SOS organization commented that the global business travel is slowly recovering. The International SOS has been paying close attention to the global travel information trends to help enterprise managers and travelers obtain accurate and reliable information and suggestions, assist them to obtain real-time support for each trip, ensure smooth and safe travel, minimize the interference of travel activities, and reduce the possible risk factors to a controllable range.

Although many countries are gradually liberalizing the entry and exit restrictions on business people, the movement of people around the world is still full of uncertainty. Mick sharp, director of International SOS security service department, said that all enterprises and institutions must realize that the global long-term security risk problem has not ended due to the COVID-19, and crime, social unrest, terrorism and other geopolitical problems still exist. In addition, natural disasters, geopolitics, internal conflicts and criminal incidents in the host country will continue to affect the transnational business activities of enterprises. With the gradual resumption of international travel activities of enterprises, the above impact will become more prominent. The enterprise must be able to identify the blind spots of the current internal and external crisis management, timely obtain objective, forward-looking and site-specific health and safety risk information, follow up the changes of policies and regulations, make effective decisions, and enhance the development toughness of the enterprise.

Under the epidemic, transnational personnel and capital flows have been greatly affected. Many overseas project personnel have been forced to extend their stay, and even face closed management in foreign countries for a long time. In this regard, International SOS has cooperated with many parties to provide health management services and professional guidance for enterprises. The relevant person in charge of International SOS pointed out that many "going global" Chinese enterprises insisted on operation during the epidemic prevention and control period, and continued to cultivate and develop overseas core businesses. Many employees are in some areas with high environmental risks. International SOS is also providing them with all-round medical health and overseas safety risk management within its ability to help enterprises operate safely. In response to the changing needs of enterprises, International SOS has re integrated and optimized a full range of services, such as the "global enterprise personnel resilience service" solution and professional global assistance services.

With regard to the impact of local containment measures taken from time to time around the world on international economic and trade exchanges, neilnrich, global medical director of International SOS, said that the current complex and changeable international business operation environment is indeed full of challenges, and the risks come from multiple levels. The global COVID-19 has entered its third year, and some countries are slowly resuming their travel. However, the continuing epidemic has put great pressure on the multinational medical and health systems. For enterprises, efforts to help employees cope with the changing working environment will help to establish a more stable enterprise and employee resilience, and obtain higher employee loyalty and productivity. In the past two years, International SOS has also been exploring the best practices for epidemic prevention against the COVID-19, helping enterprises and institutions to reduce and avoid risks with the times. On the one hand, it complies with national and local laws and regulations, and on the other hand, it supports the best practices from a professional medical and health perspective, For example, I participated in the preparation of iso31030:2021 travel risk management - Management Guide for enterprises, the first international standard on travel risk management of the international organization for standardization.