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Why Spinnaker Medical Consultants?

• We enable companies to meet their needs for quality occupational health and risk-management programs in a cost-effective manner by having access to an experienced Occupational Medical Medicine Advisor.
• We provide training & safety seminar to reduce personal health risk for business travelers and help company reduce legal and cost risks.
• We solve risk management/crisis planning issues. We help companies reduce health risks for employees, reduce business risks and contain costs.

Must Read!

If you are making an international move read “Health Care: What to Know Before You Go”

If you need more resources to guide you, present our programs to your management, or get budget approval for the services we offer, here are a few helpful resources:

ENSURE ACCESS TO MEDICAL SERVICES WHERE LOCAL HEALTHCARE GAPS EXIST

“Healthcare services vary widely geographically, even within close proximity. Organizations need to not only assess their local healthcare provider capabilities, but if they do not offer adequate services, companies need to provide access to services themselves.”
Source: “Prepare and Support Your Mobile Work Force For The Future: International Corporate Health Trends 2018”, International Corporate Health Leadership Council

ASSESS AND MANAGE SITE HEALTH RISKS, AND ENSURE COMPLIANCE WITH
LOCAL HEALTH REGULATIONS

“It is part of an organization’s duty of care for management to have and demonstrate plans to identify and mitigate against known foreseeable risks and threats to personnel. The obligation of an organization is to protect and support its personnel and identify and limit the incidents it may face in performing its work duties. Duty of care in some jurisdictions is a legal tenant, in others it is a guiding operational principle. Duty of care may be considered the minimal starting point on an organization’s journey to develop a global culture of health.”
Source: “Prepare and Support Your Mobile Work Force For The Future: International Corporate Health Trends 2018, International Corporate Health Leadership Council

PREVENT INTERNATIONAL ASSIGNMENT FAILURES

“International assignment management is one of the hardest areas for HR professionals to master—and one of the most costly. The cost of a three-year international assignment can easily exceed $3 million. Yet many organizations fail to get it right. Despite their significant investments in international assignments, companies still report a 42 percent failure rate in these assignments.”
Source: “Managing International Assignments”, Society of Human Resources Management May 1, 2017

COMPANY RISK MANAGEMENT – PREPARATION

“Being prepared for any incident, any problem and any emergency is essential for protecting a company’s reputation and staff morale.” – Edel Doherty, Managing Director at Beyond Business Travel
Source: Beyond Travel, 30 January 2018

COMPANY – DUTY OF CARE FOR TRAVELERS

“The requirements of duty of care are clear. Employers must make sure their staff are safe and looked after, when they are traveling for business. Companies have moral and legal obligations to their employees, contractors, volunteers, spouses and family members while they engage in travel for work. Employers are legally bound to reduce the risk of injury to staff, or exposures leading to health problems.”
Source: Beyond Travel, 30 January 2018

“If your employees travel on behalf of your business – whether in the U.S. or abroad – you are legally responsible for their health and safety. In fact, Duty of Care legislation has become increasingly important in the corporate travel world.  Companies that fail to safeguard their employees not only risk the health and safety of their people, but also can face legal, financial and reputational consequences.”
Source: “Understanding and Reducing Business Travel Risk for employees”, Corporate Compliance Insights Nov 19, 2017

OCCUPATIONAL MEDICAL ADVISOR – RISK MANAGEMENT

“Occupational physicians are able to help an employer significantly reduce the risks and thus assist with optimizing productivity whilst reducing costs related to health. How can they do this?”
Source: “An employer’s Guide to engaging an occupational health physician”, Faculty of Occupational Medicine of the Royal College of Physicians, Updated April 2010

TRAVEL RISK MANAGEMENT

“Every time employees travel on behalf of their companies, they and their employers face the potential that something will go awry in a way that can cause harm to the employee or the company.”
Source: Global Business Travel Association