Pandemic Influenza
Information For Businesses

Preparing for an Influenza Pandemic: A Guide to Planning for Business
This guide will help businesses begin the process of planning for an influenza pandemic. By following seven simple steps, the guide helps identify a variety of issues to consider, learn key elements to a flu pandemic business plan, and chart a course of action to take now to prepare the business and it’s employees.

Pandemic Influenza Business Planning Toolkit
This toolkit will help businesses think through critical issues related to pandemic influenza planning, create comprehensive plans to address these needs, and to provide a consistent approach for all those involved.  It provides the resources needed to develop a pandemic influenza business continuity plan.

Other Resources:

Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services
http://www.dhss.mo.gov/PandemicInfluenza
http://www.dhss.mo.gov/Ready_in_3

U.S. Government Site on Pandemic Influenza
http://www.pandemicflu.gov/plan/workplaceplanning
http://www.pandemicflu.gov/faq/workplace_questions

U.S. Department of Labor
Guidance for Preparing a Workplace for an Influenza Pandemic http://www.osha.gov/Publications/influenza_pandemic.html

U.S. Department of Homeland Security
http://www.ready.gov/business/

The New York Academy of Medicine
Redefining Readiness
http://www.redefiningreadiness.net

University of Minnesota
10-Point Framework for Pandemic Influenza Business Preparedness
http://cidrapsource.com/register/do/framework

U.S. Chamber of Commerce
http://www.uschamber.com/issues/index/defense/pandemic_influenza.htm

Extension Disaster Education Network (EDEN)
Pandemic Preparedness for Business
http://www.eden.lsu.edu/LearningOps/Pandemic/default.aspx

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Stopping the Spread of Germs at Work
http://www.cdc.gov/germstopper/work.htm

American Red Cross
http://www.redcross.org/news/ds/panflu/