// Travel Risk Management - Consultancy, Training, Intelligence, Country Reports and Briefings.
The R2Ri team has a wealth of experience in Travel Risk Management (from assisting UK Government owned entities sending staff overseas to develop their Travel Risk Management Systems to comply with their Duty of Care, training teams heading overseas for fieldwork or expeditions and post incident support) as well as involvement in both the new ISO for Travel Risk Management and BS:8848 - the British Standard for overseas Fieldwork, Ventures, Visits and Expeditions. We also have significant expertise in generating and delivering Country Briefings. Team members include intelligence analysts with military and civilian intelligence backgrounds – well versed in high-risk operations overseas, expert trainers, those who have spent decades in the fieldwork and expedition spheres, to team members involved in writing the safety standards . The experience within the team also encompasses high level advisers to blue chip corporate, media, travel, expedition, off shore, mineral exploration, adventure travel, education and many more sectors.
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We maintain access to country reports and global incident data constantly maintained by a team of intelligence analysts. Our insights arise from multiple intelligence data sources.
Team members have years of experience, (Civilian, Military and Intelligence Services) in this area and have undergone formal education in this field, to complement their experience. Team member qualifications include accredited Duty of Care Practitioners.
Training and Accreditations include:
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The Security and Risk Management Consultant’s course (delivered at the Government’s Cabinet Office Emergency Planning College in York).
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IOSH (Institution of Occupational Safety and Health) Certified Safety, Health and Security for the Mobile Worker Practitioners having undertaken formal certifications in the field:
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Travel safety, health and security for the mobile worker: Travel risks; travel-related risk assessment; and traveller’s briefing.*
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Travel safety, health and security for the mobile worker: Building an organisation’s travel directives, incident management.*
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* R2Ri team members include trainers for the two courses.
Whether you are looking for assistance in putting in place systems to capture and undertake suitable risk assessments (and risk mitigation including training) for staff travelling overseas, travel intelligence reports on a country of interest or country briefings and written overviews for staff, we have it covered – from video conference or face to face briefings along with supporting materials to raise awareness prior to deploying your team members overseas.​
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// Colin - Intelligence
Colin is a Security and Cyber Intelligence specialist who has had a distinguished military career before moving into the intelligence community and thereafter, the private sector. He completed over 8 years’ service in the British Army Intelligence Corps. The majority of his career has been spent either preparing for, deploying to or supporting others on operations in Afghanistan and thereafter working within prestigious roles and locations within the Intelligence Community in the UK.
Colin has deployed to conflict zones several times, the third of which, saw Colin deploy as the only intelligence and security mentor within the task force. This role saw him establish an intelligence and security cell within the host nation’s Special Police Forces Unit, enabling the task force to take the lead on operations. Colin's efforts on his second deployment to Afghanistan saw him awarded a Queens Commendation in 2013.
Colin has had a varied and full career covering a breadth of intelligence and security disciplines. Since leaving the employ of HM Government, he has qualified as a Security and Risk Management Consultant.
He is an expert in intelligence collation, country and political risks briefing and ongoing intelligence in support of client projects outside the UK.
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