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At Group level

Travelling or expatriation in healthy conditions does guarantee the wellbeing of persons as well as the success of journeys or transfers.  

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In that context, the Solvay Syensqo Group Travel Policy and the HR International Assignment Policies recommend a medical surveillance of each intercontinental or frequent traveller, as well as each expatriate and the accompanying family.

And more specifically, one of the Group requirements in Occupational Health (IND-HSE-OH-08-PRO, Req. 3.2.8) requires a medical examination is performed prior to any site employee travel to a destination with a high sanitary risk.  The high sanitary risk destinations are defined by Solvay taking into account the iSOS classification (International SOS). 
An up-to-date Solvay list displays the Sanitary Risk Rating attributed for each country.   

To define if the destination is with a high sanitary risk, we rely on our travel health service provider Healix's country profile section and Alerts section.

At Site level

As the Site physicians play a major role in  in the preparation and advising of frequent travellers and future expatriates, HSE OH corp. has published two documents which are primarily intended for them :

Image Modified1.      “Medical surveillance recommended for travellers and expatriates”  : this guide provides the best practices (protocols) for conducting appropriate medical check-ups in order to prevent health issues related to business travels or expatriations.
Solvay Syensqo considers travelling frequently (at least 3 travels/month or > 25% of time away from home) is a potential factor of risk that needs to be taken into account, and recommends to undergo a yearly medical visit. 
Pre-travel visit is more than controlling the vaccination status, it includes advice adapted to the individual traveller’s health situation and counselling on safe behaviors in foreign countries.

Image Modified2.      “Medical management of expatriates” : this procedure guideline, intended for the medical teams and HR-International Mobility (HR-IMY), describes the organization of the recommended health formalities for future assignees in the framework of the global expatriation process managed by HR-International Mobility ( HR-IMY).   
The procedure guideline concerns also employees missioned during periods longer than 3 months.
The annexes annex of this procedure consist in a summary of recommendations for the check-up of the accompanying family as well as shows the Assignee Medical Sheet (AMS) which is a form that must be filled by the physician having examined performed the employee check-up, and returned to both the Regional medical coordinator OH Medical Referent (or Coordinator) and HR International Mobility coordinatorCoordinator. 
As required by many local regulations, translations  of these two types of documents of the AMS are available, also in order to help local physicians to understand their content and what they must fill in the English (official) version.

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