International SOS Foundation Duty of Care Awards Shortlist Announced

Organisations show increased commitment To Duty of Care Awards with
Increase in Entries and Sponsors from Around the Globe

LONDON–(BUSINESS WIRE)–The International SOS Foundation 2017 Duty of Care Awards have attracted
almost 20% more entries than last year, and sponsors from industry
leaders including headline sponsor Chubb, the world’s largest listed
property and casualty insurer.¹

Today, The Foundation also reveals the outstanding initiatives in nine
categories from Return on Investment to Innovation that have been
shortlisted for this year’s Awards.

Laurent Fourier, Director of the International SOS Foundation, comments,
“Organisations are raising the bar in Duty of Care initiatives and
our panel of judges² have been particularly
impressed with the high level of expertise and commitment to strategic
implementation. We are encouraged in our endeavours by the increase in
entries in our second year running these prestigious awards.

We are also delighted to have sponsors coming on board this year and
our recently announced one day Summit. Our sponsors share our ambition
to increase the awareness of Duty of Care for the mobile workforce that
we feel becomes more vital by the day, as the mobile workforce grows.”³

Drazen Jaksic, Senior Vice President, Accident and Health for Chubb in
Europe and Eurasia and Africa, said, “Duty of Care is vitally
important to our organisation and the clients we support and features
heavily in our proposition. We are proud to sponsor the
International SOS Foundation Duty of Care Awards and Summit in its role
of spearheading and enabling the sharing of best practices worldwide.”

The winners of the 2017 Duty of Care Awards will be announced at a
ceremony during a Gala Dinner in Berlin on 29 June. To learn more visit www.dutyofcareawards.org.

The Awards will be preceded by the International SOS Foundation Duty of
Care Summit, a one-day business conference, tailored specifically for
stakeholders involved in mitigating health and travel security risks of
a mobile workforce. This Summit will bring together leading experts from
around the globe, providing insight and share expertise on latest
industry trends, discuss best practices in Duty of Care in an exclusive
and conversational environment. Tickets for this exclusive Summit are
now available at a special Early Bird price of €219 or €359 for a Summit
and Gala Awards Dinner ticket, at https://www.dutyofcareawards.org/summit.

ENDS

Duty of Care Awards shortlist:

Category: Shortlisted companies

Communications: Allstate Insurance Company   Arla Foods   Ausenco Limited   PTT Exploration & Production Public Company Limited   General Mills, Inc   Kongsberg Gruppen   L’Oreal   Marks and Spencer plc   Nippon Steele & Sumikin Engineering Co., Ltd.   Saab AB

Ambassador of Duty of Care   CMI Groupe   Genpact Limited   Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd   pladis Global   Zebra Technologies

Resilient Care:   The North of England Zoological Society (Chester Zoo)   Engineers Without Borders USA   Fairfax Media   Harris Corporation   Jacobs   Mondi Group   Petronas Carigali Nile Ltd   pladis Global   Toyota Boshoku   Weir Minerals Europe

Remote Healthcare:   BESSAC   Broadspectrum   Forbes Bumi Armada   Kinross Gold Corporation Inc.   Nestlé Australia Ltd   Reliance Industries Limited   SP Armada Oil Exploration PVT LTD.

Innovation: ABB Asea Brown Boveri, Ltd   Cisco Systems, Inc.   Citibank   Johnson & Johnson   McDonald’s Deutschland LLC   Reliance Industries Limited   Saab AB   Shell   SMS Group GmbH   Unilever Plc

Partnership:   Aditya Birla Group   Allstate Insurance Company   English Schools Foundation (ESF)   Genpact   Marks and Spencer plc   WINDEA Offshore GmbH & Co. KG

Thought Leadership: Gentera   Johnson & Johnson   Micron Technology, Inc   Samsung Engineering Co. Ltd.   Sule Shangri-La, Yangon

Return on Investment in Travel Risk Mitigation:   CLAAS CSE   Dr. Reddy’s Laboratories Ltd.   Experian   FirstRand Group   Sanofi Pasteur   Schlumberger Limited

German Mittelstand: Duty of Care Programme:   CLAAS CSE   Kärcher   KHS GmBH   SGF GmbH & Co. KG   Welthungerhilfe e.V.

About International SOS Foundation

Established in 2011, the International SOS Foundation – Ambassadors for
Duty of Care – has the goal of improving the safety, security, health
and welfare of people working abroad or on remote assignments through
the study, understanding and mitigation of potential risks. The
escalation of globalisation has enabled more individuals to work across
borders and in unfamiliar environments; exposure to risks which can
impact personal health, security and safety increases along with travel.
The Foundation is a registered charity and was started with a grant from
International SOS. It is a fully independent, non-profit organisation.
For more information on Duty of Care and the International SOS
Foundation, please visit http://www.internationalsosfoundation.org/

¹ Other sponsors include Barmenia, CWT and Alcoa.

² Full list of judges can be found here.

³ The global mobile workforce is set to increase from 1.45b
in 2016, accounting for 38.8% of the global workforce, to 1.87b in 2022,
accounting for 42.5% of the global workforce, Strategy Analytics ‘Global
Mobile Workforce Update 2016-2022’.

Contacts

International SOS Foundation
Suzanne Withers, Head of Group PR
T:
0208-762-8494
E: suzanne.withers@internationalsos.com