Barb’s Pandemic Preparedness Safety Talk can be used as the basis of your weekly safety meeting. But, ideally, an effective safety meeting is tailored to your particular worksite. Here are some ideas for adding your own material to your infection control week safety meeting:

1. Review your company’s pandemic emergency preparedness plan. Will the business close if a certain percentage of the workforce is absent? How will operations be maintained with short staff? How will your business go on if supplies or transportation are disrupted?
2. Check out your company’s business continuity plan for getting up to speed after workers have recovered from the flu. Prepare to review it with your workers.
3. Your workers will need to know about sick leave policies. Will they get paid if they stay home?
4. Consider how work can be reorganized to minimize contact with the public and with fellow workers.
5. Is telecommuting an option for your workers? Arrangements should be made ahead of time rather than after the flu hits your workplace.
6. Do workers have easy access to handwashing facilities and waterless hand cleaner?
7. For amusement and education, have someone demonstrate the infection control benefits of coughing or sneezing into his upper sleeve rather than his hand or a tissue.

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