Corporate Pandemic Planning

Contact Health Services Australia Group and the Travel Doctor to assist your organisation develop a corporate pandemic plan. Mr Brock Cambourne – 07 3307 9471 or Dr Tony Gherardin – 03 9224 8352

Useful Checklists

The following are useful for planning and executing your plan.

From the Australian Government, the Business continuity guide, contains good advice and a useful planning checklist.

It can be found at http://www.industry.gov.au/pandemicbusinesscontinuity/

From the US , Centres for Disease Control, the Business pandemic Influenza Planning Checklist, is a very useful tool, and can be found at;

http://www.pandemicflu.gov/plan/tab4.html . It has some other useful information about planning in general.

 

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Related Information

  • All staff should be aware of the basic hygiene techniques and principles for protection against respiratory disease. For hygiene tips go to our Fact Sheet section.
  • During a pandemic there will be a very important pool of workers who contract the disease but survive and become immune. Keeping a database of these individuals would make staffing front-line public areas easier.
  • Pandemics usually spread to all parts of the globe within less than a year and affect more than a quarter of the total population; they also tend to recur in second and sometimes third waves.
  • If 25% of Australians were affected by an influenza pandemic and there was no vaccine or treatment available, 13,000 to 44,000 deaths and 57,900 to 148,000 hospitalisations could occur over a 6 to 8 week period.