Swine Flu Workplace Expert

The swine flu scare has calmed down over the summer, but the disease will be back in full force this fall and winter. As more and more people get sick and the numbers of hospitalizations and deaths climb ever higher, your employees will be coming to you asking about how they can protect themselves. What do you tell them about a co-worker who is coughing or whose kids are home from school with a fever? Are they are risk of getting swine flu from customers? Should they be wearing masks? Should they get vaccinated? What happens if one of your employees dies? Employee demands can be conflicting, expectations can be unclear, mistrust is predictable.

You have a choice. Set your policies now, in advance of the outbreak. Or you can respond in the middle of a workplace crisis. Either way, you don’t want to manage it alone. A swine flu workplace expert can help you negotiate your way through a maze of complex scientific information to find the best solutions for your company.

Swine Flu Facts

Since the H1N1 swine flu outbreak was first detected in mid-April 2009 through the end of July, a total of 43,771 cases of swine flu were reported in the US. 5,011 people were hospitalized and 302 people died. Now there are just too many cases to count each one. Most of the cases are occurring in young people. While many of the hospitalized cases and deaths have an underlying chronic illness, many are young previously healthy people. Obese people and pregnant women have been at high risk for serious complications and death.