Industrial Hygiene News - November 2009

Resources to help you manage your workforce during the Pandemic Flu

While sitting at home this month dealing with H1N1 in my own personal life I came to reflect on how important knowledge is when dealing with something so serious. Being a professional who reads about this pandemic flu almost every day in my job, I was reassured by my knowledge that the best thing for my family to do is wait this thing out perhaps easier said than done. The media have done a wonderful job telling everyone about the H1N1 virus but have they really educated the public about the prevention of the spread of the virus and the cold hard facts. Not necessarily, when I see parents allowing their children to play in football games when they clearly have all the symptoms of the flu or when they come to work to finish up that project that is due. I do not think that we, as safety & health professionals, have done our job in educating people to do the right thing.

I am not going to try and rewrite the book on flu prevention but I will give you several resources to help you get the word out about a good, common sense approach to the H1N1 flu season. I encourage you to share your knowledge with your co-workers, family and friends. You may be surprised by what people do not know about the flu, including the differences between the normal seasonal flu and this H1N1 pandemic flu.

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I encourage you to take a look at the resources listed below. They are free and have wonderful posters and handouts for you to distribute to your workforce. View our list of prevention products on page 12. Remember that a few minutes of prevention may save your company weeks of sick days. Remember no one ever tells you what they do not know. Common sense really does play a big part in most occupational accidents. Education and awareness is our greatest tool in containing this pandemic flu.

OSHA has developed a Website that will only take a few minutes to get a wealth of lit-
erature for your reference: http://www.osha.gov/h1n1/index.html
The United States Government has also set up a website: www.flu.gov
with a flu shot locator along with the myths and facts about the flu

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The CDC has a website to guard people through this maze of
knowledge: http://www.cdc.gov/h1n1flu/
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Company Argus-Hazco 5-2000 800/873-0456 CANBERRA 800/243-3955 Enertech Consultants 408/866-7266, www.enertech.net Industrial Test Systems Inc. 803/329-9712, www.sensafe.com International Light Technologies 978/818-6180 International Medcom Inc. 707/823-0336 Landauer Inc. 708/755-7000 Laurus Systems 315/457-9300 Meter Conversions 713/523-0515 Mirion Technologies 800/251-3331 Narda Safety Test Solutions 631/231-1700 www.narda-sts.us Ortec 865/482-4411 RAE Systems Inc. 408/952-8200 Radon Testing Corp. of America 800/457-2366 S E International Inc. 800/293-5759 Solar Light Co. 215/517-8700 Soltec Corp. 800/423-2344 Thermo Fisher Scientific 800/875-1578, www.thermo.com

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Working in a Bi-lingual atmosphere? Make sure
nothing gets lost in translation. For with hand-
outs about the flu in Spanish, Arabic, Chinese,
German, Italian, Korean, Russian and Tagalog visit
http://www.flu.gov/know.html