Helicopters and Evacuations at High Altitude
If you’re responsible for creating your company’s plan to evacuate mobile employees for medical, meteorological, or geopolitical reasons, consider altitude ...
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Lessons Learned From a Hotel Data Breach
The criminals were good. They almost got away with the most elaborate data breach and identity theft scam I’d seen ...
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4 Tips for Travelers in Muslim Countries
Every culture has unique mores and traditions. Travel to a foreign country unaware of these nuances, and you risk inadvertently ...
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4 Factors to Consider in Nuclear Incidents
In March 2011, a tsunami crippled Tokyo Electric Power Company’s Fukushima I nuclear power plant. With critical equipment offline, the ...
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Reconciling Airbnb with Duty of Care for Corporate Travel
Worldwide phenomenon Airbnb (and others like VRBO and HomeAway), the website that allows people to rent out lodging spaces (typically ...
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N.fowleri Infections Update
Naegleria fowleri is an amoeba common to warm bodies of fresh water, including lakes and unchlorinated or poorly chlorinated swimming ...
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Security Reminders for the Fall From the Institute for Security Executives
Summer is coming to an end, and with that change of season come many things that deserve some security and ...
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Confronting Bed Bug Infestations with a Multi-Treatment Protocol
Co-authored by Joelle Olson Sixty years ago, bed bugs were eradicated from the U.S., largely due to the use of ...
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Five Ways Your Safety at Hotels Can Be Compromised
There are certain, reasonable expectations we have when paying for a hotel room, such as a good night’s sleep, clean ...
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Hotel Pools: Another Potentially Hazardous Amenity
We wrote about the hazards inherent in hotel balconies last week, but that isn’t the only potentially troublesome amenity that ...
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