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Last September I had the great pleasure of playing a very small role in the CIDRAP H1N1 summit in Minneapolis. This conference brought together hundreds of industry leaders who shared vital information on ways for businesses to deal with this ongoing pandemic.
I’m delighted to announce today that CIDRAP (Center for Infectious Disease Research & Policy) and SHRM (Society for Human Resource Management) have put together a terrific toolkit, based on much of that shared knowledge, that you can download and use to create or enhance your business’s pandemic plan.
But rather than prattle on about it myself, I’ll just post the CIDRAP press release on it.
Based in large part on the September summit, the University of Minnesota’s Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy (CIDRAP), in collaboration with the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM), and with contractual financial support from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), today released a new toolkit, Doing Business During an Influenza Pandemic: Human Resource Policies, Protocols, Templates, Tools, & Tips.
http://www.cidrapsource.com/hrtoolkit
The toolkit is available free of charge as a PDF document:
The toolkit, designed for organizations of all sizes, is intended to:
Help human resource (HR) professionals new to pandemic planning come up to speed quickly on high-priority HR issues related to operating during an influenza pandemic
Provide concrete ways that organizations can implement federal guidance
Offer new ideas that can be used to improve existing plans
Serve as a reference for benchmarking.
The guide includes:
Lessons learned by HR professionals whose planning efforts and response skills were tested during the early, chaotic days of the H1N1 pandemic this spring.
Original content from CIDRAP and SHRM information services (the CIDRAP Business Source and the SHRM Knowledge Center) and respective Web sites.
Vetted, authoritative sources, including practical, science-based information from the CDC and other government agencies.
To help HR professionals navigate this unconventional flu season, the toolkit includes a checklist, cross-referenced to the toolkit’s policies, protocols, templates, and tips, to assess an organization’s current level of preparedness, identify gaps, and benchmark efforts.
The toolkit is available free of charge as a PDF document: http://www.cidrapsource.com/hrtoolkit
I’ve only had about an hour to look this toolkit over, but I can tell you without reservation that this is a terrific resource. One that will remain prominent in my sidebar for some time to come.
So DOWNLOAD IT . . . read it . . . and use it.
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