UNI - Italian Standardization Organisation and Confindustria Emilia Area Centro, have developed and published - in the double Italian and English version - the new Reference Practice UNI / PdR 124: 2022 "Non-regulated professional activities - Professionals operating in the field of safety travel - Requirements of knowledge, skills, autonomy and responsibility ".
The document identifies three professional figures: the Travel Security Officer (the person who ensures that the travel security management process is adequate and appropriate to the needs of the organization and people, the Travel Security Manager (the person who deals with the operational management of the traveler safety) the Travel Security Analyst (the person who collects, analyzes and evaluates information useful for the safety of travelers).
On the basis of the tasks assigned to each of these professional profiles, the practice adopted in detail skills, abilities, levels of autonomy and defined according to the criteria of the NQF (National Qualifications Framework).
The requirements defined by the practice are aimed at employees, both external consultants, service providers and persons in charge of managing the safety of company personnel, with the aim of fulfilling the obligations of Duty of Care, i.e. moral responsibility or legal, for companies, to protect the traveler from threats and dangers.
The need for this document was also felt following the publication of the international standard ISO 31030 "Travel Risk Management - Guidance for Organizations" recently adopted by UNI and dedicated to the management of risks deriving from travel, in which it is done several times reference to the competence of the professional figures entrusted with specific roles or the general coordination of the entire process.
This project sees Italy as the first country in the world to have developed a Reference Practice for defining the requirements of the Travel Security professional profiles. In a productive fabric increasingly oriented towards foreign markets, the creation of ISO 31030 "Travel Risk Management - Guidance for Organizations" represents a fundamental step in defining the correct measures for managing the risks deriving from travel, a very important issue especially in Covid regime.
The practice is completed by two appendices: appendix A contains the useful elements about the applicable conformity assessment procedures while appendix B contains the indications relating to the ethical and deontological aspects applicable including a general framework for the construction of an infrastructure of the culture of professional integrity, of particular importance for the purposes of consumer / user protection.
The UNI / PdR 124: 2022 reference practice can be freely downloaded from the UNI Catalog (both in the Italian and English version) at the following address: https://store.uni.com/catalogo/uni-pdr-124-2022
