As the spread of the swine flu virus (officially known as influenza A H1N1) accelerates, business readiness is growing in importance. You should keep updated on what your business can do to help your employees get treatment and to prevent further spread of swine flu. You should be scheduling a meeting now for senior managers to debate what actions you can take to limit the impact on trading and create a strategy should the pandemic escalate.Probably the best source of information at present is the Business Link site, follow this link: http://tinyurl.com/kktg5f
In the meantime you should advise your employees that they should contact their GP immediately if they think they have swine flu symptoms.
Follow NHS guidance
Businesses should follow detailed NHS guidance for employers in the workforce and this can be downloaded from the following source. It will also help inform your strategy: http://tinyurl.com/kw4mqy
Email your employees the official leaflet
The official government swine flu leaflet explains how to prevent transmission of swine flu and how to access treatment. It can be downloaded from the link below.
APA recommends that you email this leaflet to your employees and suggest that they share it with family and friends; especially anyone who may be considered to be in the ‘at risk’ groups. http://tinyurl.com/cefghl
Please stay healthy.
APA
2 comments:
Thanks for this - I used it today as a talking point and the HR department are taking it up.
We are starting to get worried about this. We think we can only suffer a 10% loss of staff before it would seriously affect our production. As a small business, if our output dropped we would be under real threat of losing Government orders and that could be fatal in these difficult times.
Andrew Marr said on his show this morning (albeit jokingly) that we already have War, Plague is about to follow and we only need pestilence for the full set; I think he had forgotten about the Bankers!
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