A fast lane of safety tips for the frequent business, or personal traveler. For example, 97% of hotel incidents occur on the 1st Floor. Why would you accept a 1st Floor room?
As President of Pizza Hut's International division, Mike Lorelli has traveled to 55 countries, and clocked 300,000 miles and 44 countries in one year alone.
A fast lane of safety tips for the frequent business, or personal traveler. For example, 97% of hotel incidents occur on the 1st Floor. Why would you accept a 1st Floor room?
As President of Pizza Hut's International division, Mike Lorelli has traveled to 55 countries, and clocked 300,000 miles and 44 countries in one year alone.
Keep Yourself Safe In The Parking Lot: Seven Simple SolutionsSpencer Coursen
80% of reported crime at retail and shopping centers happens in the parking lot.
Make these following best practices part of your everyday "parking process" to help increase your situational awareness and drastically reduce your likelihood of being attacked.
Help keep yourself safe with these simple, practical, and realistic reminders. "Safety Made Simple" is all about common sense suggestions that everyone can use to prepare today for a safer tomorrow.
How To Prepare for and Deal with Crowds, Civil Unrest and RiotsBob Mayer
Inevitably we will be in a crowd. Whether its a sporting event, a movie theater, a concert or something else. There is also the possibility we might get caught up in civil unrest or a riot. Do you know how to be prepared? What to do? How to react? How to protect yourself?
Corporate travel security services part 2Jeff Starck
Part 2 of a 4 part series on Corporate Travel Security, Safety & Cultural Awareness. Designed for the international business traveler to help make their travels hassle free and productive. The content and suggestions are equally as useful to the leisure traveler, International aid worker or traveling student.
Keep Yourself Safe In The Parking Lot: Seven Simple SolutionsSpencer Coursen
80% of reported crime at retail and shopping centers happens in the parking lot.
Make these following best practices part of your everyday "parking process" to help increase your situational awareness and drastically reduce your likelihood of being attacked.
Help keep yourself safe with these simple, practical, and realistic reminders. "Safety Made Simple" is all about common sense suggestions that everyone can use to prepare today for a safer tomorrow.
How To Prepare for and Deal with Crowds, Civil Unrest and RiotsBob Mayer
Inevitably we will be in a crowd. Whether its a sporting event, a movie theater, a concert or something else. There is also the possibility we might get caught up in civil unrest or a riot. Do you know how to be prepared? What to do? How to react? How to protect yourself?
Corporate travel security services part 2Jeff Starck
Part 2 of a 4 part series on Corporate Travel Security, Safety & Cultural Awareness. Designed for the international business traveler to help make their travels hassle free and productive. The content and suggestions are equally as useful to the leisure traveler, International aid worker or traveling student.
The Private Equity Play by Mike LorelliMike Lorelli
The Private Equity Play is a comprehensive overview on how the private equity model works: what’s in it for the Limited Partners, the private equity firm, and portfolio company management. You don’t need to be on the buy side or sell side of the private equity equation to find this presentation of value and interest. It will broaden everyone’s understanding of this major component of the capital markets.
The Private Equity Play by Mike Lorelli (PDF)Mike Lorelli
The Private Equity Play is a comprehensive overview on how the private equity model works: what’s in it for the Limited Partners, the private equity firm, and portfolio company management. You don’t need to be on the buy side or sell side of the private equity equation to find this presentation of value and interest. It will broaden everyone’s understanding of this major component of the capital markets.
Gary hourselt adventure travel trip tipsGary Hourselt
Gary hourselt During the travel, You have picked up some handy pointers to ease the whole travelling experience so we thought it would be useful to share these tips with you!
Home safety holiday that help an individual to be aware of the danger that comes with holiday. Most often than not during these festive seasons most people are pickup by the Joy and happiness that or the excitements they are they are going to experience
2. Many of you travel occasionally, if not regularly. Domestic and International.
This article outlines some common sense travel tips to better your odds
of a safe round trip.
No guarantees...just as you could have an accident simply driving to work.
Eight themes capture the essence of risk avoidance.
While some of this discussion may seem a bit much for domestic travelers,
unfortunate incidents are more widespread than publicly reported.
The press, thankfully, is thoughtful about not fueling copycatters.
3. Keep a Low Profile
• Avoid drawing attention to yourself or your
group.
• Leave the jewelry home.
• No cameras around your neck.
• No fancy watches.
• Dress down.
• Don’t wear a company logo shirt.
• Discuss travel plans (particularly international)
with outsiders/strangers only on a
need-to-know basis.
4. Don’t Be Predictable
• Again, particularly in international, vary
your departure times with extended stay
hotel visits.
• Jog at different times and on different
routes.
• Vary dining schedules.
5. 3. Presume the worst when someone,
particularly at airports, tries to divert your
attention
• Thieves frequently work in pairs
• ...the attention diverter asks you,
• "Do you know where Gate 6 is?"
• You put your bags down and try to help.
• The thief and your bags are now history.
• Rest rooms have high vandalism incidence rates.
6. Security
• Use the company name and phone number on luggage tags;
never your home information.
• Go to personal wardrobe extreme to have only carry-on luggage.
At minimum, all critical items (wallet, most money, tickets, travel
documents, valuables, glasses, schedules) should be in a soft canvas travel
attaché
that never leaves your sight.
As an aside, next time you get new glasses, don’t throw the old ones away.
Keep it in your travel attaché.
• Keep a photocopy of your passport in your pocket at all times.
The American Embassy can move a lot faster with that photocopy.
Better yet, get two passports.
Some countries require you to leave your passport with the hotel.
Keep (another) one on you person 100% of the time.
• Pocketbooks should always be carried over your front. Never over the
shoulder.
• Women -- carry a whistle in your purse outer compartment. Better use it by
mistake, than to not call attention when you should have.
7. Hotel safety
• Always use the lobby entrance.
• Women should avoid hotels with multiple access doors.
• Select floors 3 to 5, with a room nearest the stairwell. The 1st floor has
more crime than all other floors put together. Floor 3 and above avoids the
lobby noise. In the event of a fire, you can jump from Floor 3 and Floor 4
and have fair odds of making it (not intact). You have a slim chance of
surviving a jump from the 5th floor if you land in shrubs. Above that, no
way Jose. Even in the event of a stairway evacuation, there’s no reason to
work your way down multiple flights. Those of you who have walked down
the stairwell from Floor 22 at 1:00am (in a false alarm, hopefully) know
what I'm talking about.
• Count the doors from the stairwell to your room. In a power outage or
smoke condition,
you may need to feel and count your way to the stairwell.
• In yellow and red countries, have the bellman check the entire room
before he leaves you.
• Be aware of hidden spaces in the hallways.
• Never put out a breakfast room-service door hanger. A sharp thief will
make note the
night before, ring your bell 5 minutes before the appointed time (catch you
off guard and probably half-dressed), enter and rob. If you need breakfast,
call room service the night before.
• If you receive a call from ‘the desk clerk’ asking for credit card
information, absolutely don’t give it out. A favorite credit card theft prank.
• Car rental trunks at hotel parking lots have high vandalism rates. Take all
your luggage to your room.
8. Rental Cars/ Ground Transportation
• Don't stop or unlock your doors for anyone
except a uniformed policemen,
regardless of their claim.
Criminal tactics include representing authority.
• Never leave a car with possessions anywhere
but out-of-sight...it goes in the trunk.
• Unmarked taxis are an invitation for trouble.
9. Laptops
• Buy a canvas Lands End attaché.
Plenty of room for your laptop, AC power
supply, airline power cord, mouse,
and . . . yes, all your files.
Branded laptop cases are a wonderful
invitation.
10. High-Risk Countries and Cities
• Invest in a service such as KrollWatch
(www.KrollWorldWide.com). Available services
include itinerary-specific intelligence reports
about destinations, on-the-ground travel alerts,
and itinerary tracking services. Clients also have
access to their response center, which is staffed
by security, intelligence and medical specialists
who can provide information and assistance at a
moment’s notice.
11. Michael K. Lorelli
• As President of Pizza Hut's International, Mike Lorelli
flew 300,000 miles, to 44 countries, in 1993 alone.
• He is the author of the childrens’ bestseller
"Traveling Again, Dad?"
with profits donated to childrens’ charities.
• He presently is engaged as CEO for private equity firms.
• Contact: MikLorelli@aol.com
(203) 655-2444