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Resource Sector Travel Risk Assessment Checklist
Your guide to corporate travel program risk assessment
Resource operations rely on many types of travellers, FIFO/DIDO crews, VIP executive leaders, contractors, and operational teams moving between sites and regions. The risk profile changes depending on the journey, but the responsibility to keep people safe remains.
This travel risk assessment checklist is designed to help you keep your people protected and your travel program consistent, wherever they’re heading.
Download the checklist to:
- Standardise travel risk decisions across FIFO, business, VIP, and contractor travel
- Improve visibility across remote, offshore, and international movements
- Strengthen duty of care across every stage of the journey
- Reduce disruption caused by avoidable travel risk gaps
Key takeaways
A travel risk assessment checklist can provide:
- A structured framework to assess travel risk before wheels up
- Clear visibility across all traveller types in resource operations
- Stronger alignment between HSE, HR, procurement, and travel teams
- Improved consistency in duty of care across complex travel environments
- Better decision-making before travel begins, not after issues arise
What's inside the checklist
This checklist gives resource teams a structured way to assess travel risk before anyone leaves for site, hops on a charter, or boards an international flight. It brings together the moving parts that are often spread across different systems and documents, so nothing gets missed when decisions are being made. This corporate travel program risk assessment checklist covers:
- Destination and site risk conditions
- Health, fatigue, and traveller suitability
- Transport and remote logistics
- Security, crisis readiness, and escalation pathways
- VIP and executive travel considerations
- Contractor and third-party travel alignment
- Post-travel review and continuous improvement
Designed for every traveller in your program
Corporate travel has had some changes in the past few years and more businesses are moving to people-centric risk management because of it. Keeping employees safe no matter where or who they are.
This checklist supports:
- FIFO and DIDO workforce movements
- Regular project and business travellers
- VIP and executive travel
- Contractors and third-party workers
Who this checklist is for
This checklist is designed for the resource sector teams responsible for planning, approving, and managing travel across complex resource operations. Key users include:
- HSE and safety leaders managing duty of care obligations
- Travel managers coordinating FIFO and project travel
- Procurement teams overseeing contractor compliance
- Operations leaders responsible for workforce movement into remote and high-risk sites
- Security teams monitoring risk and crisis response
- Project managers handling site-based travel logistics
- Executive assistants supporting senior travellers
When to use this checklist
This resource works best when shared across HSE, HR, travel arrangers, procurement, operations, and site leadership teams, along with security, project managers, and executive assistants supporting senior travellers.
Use it to standardise your approach during:
- Travel approval and pre-trip planning
- Major resource and capital projects
- Onboarding new employees, and third-party workers
- Ongoing travel program reviews and audits
- Incident reviews, near misses, and post-travel learnings
- Seasonal risk changes or operational ramp-ups
- Expansion into new sites, regions, or jurisdictions