Pandemic flu: Forward planning is essential
With experts warning that a flu pandemic is a case of when not if, employers should take steps now to adapt existing disaster recovery plans to match the very specific workplace health and resourcing issues that could arise.
Forward planning is vital to beat flu pandemic By Sally O'Reilly, writing in Personnel Today.
Pandemic Fl{resource_tag} UK Influenza Pandemic Contingency Plan (PDF format, 336K) Visit the Department of Health website to download a special guidance document on contingency planning for a flu pandemic.
UK employers totally unprepared for flu
pandemic Daniel Thomas reports, from
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DoH warns absence rates may double if bird flu hits the UK Sickness absence rates across the country could more than double if the UK is hit by a bird flu pandemic, the Department of Health has warned.
Data briefing: The day after tomorrow The threat potentially posed by avian flu now adds to the pressures on organisations to think the unthinkable and draw up contingency arrangements in case the worst-case scenarios come to pass. IRS Employment Review looks at related research from the Society for Human Resource Management.
Resource guide: Flu vaccines Occupational Health magazine provides a list of essential information sources on flu vaccinations.
