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An introduction to the CIDRAP Business Source
Welcome!
If your organization is new to pandemic planning or you need to revise and refresh your plans, you've come to the right place. Although the 2009 H1N1 pandemic is over, the threat of another pandemic remains. We're here to help. On the left, you'll see categories of information we have vetted. Below are three helpful sections: (1) inter-pandemic resources, (2) a quick-start guide, and (3) planning and response practices gathered from your colleagues.
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| H1N1: Post-Peak Resources |
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| Quick-Start Resource
New to pandemic planning and response?
Start here to get up to speed quickly.
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| Practices from the Field |
Attaining 100% compliance with business continuity planning
Disappointed with decentralized efforts to get business units to draft business continuity plans, a cancer research center posed specific questions to departments that helped them focus on details relevant to their work. Questions of researchers, for example, included, "What materials do you need to conduct your research, and what would happen if you couldn't get them?" The specificity of the questions helped identify the need to work out arrangements with vendors for critical materials.
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Respiratory etiquette -- using other states' posters
To keep messages about respiratory etiquette and hand hygiene messages fresh and not incur additional expense, one organization identified several state health departments that produced high-quality promotional materials and rotated those throughout its numerous headquarter buildings. Materials were sent to the administrative assistants in key areas, who were charged with putting them in high-visibility areas.
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Tracking absenteeism
A national retail organization that had an occupational health department used that internal capacity to provide phone triage for employees during the 2009 H1N1 pandemic. Occupational health nurses had a pandemic-specific protocol to screen employees. Employees were asked to call the occupational health phone line if they had symptoms of an influenza-like illness. Employees who met the criteria were encouraged to stay home, and nurses notified the employee's supervisor.
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About CIDRAP
The Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy (CIDRAP) works to prevent illness and death from targeted infectious disease threats through research and the translation of scientific information into real-world, practical applications, policies, and solutions.
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