Mexican Influenza Response Manual Chapters Summary

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The Mexican Influenza Response Manual for Businesses was written by business managers for business managers and covers all the areas you need to know about so that your company can mount an effective response when the pandemic waves wash through your neighborhood.

With these simple-to-use instructions and accompanying tools you’ll be able to…

  Conduct your own Risk Assessment to analyse your company’s exposure to the four critical components of business operations that are most at risk from an influenza pandemic, namely:

   People
   Processes
   Suppliers and
   Utilities

Risk Assessment Templates


   Set the triggers for your company’s own pandemic response alerts, and align them with the World Health Organization’s and your local area response phases.



   Choose an Influenza Manager and show them the role they will play in handling the return to normal operations quickly, as staff feel sick at work and others evacuate the premises.

   Implement effective office access controls which keep those infected from unwittingly bringing the virus in to the offices, and what increasing degree of access controls should match the increasing threat alert.


Orange Threat (page 1)

Red Threat (page 1)
Increasing Office Access Control Measures

   Initiate social distancing policies and know what kind of measures you should implement to minimise your staff’s unnecessary contact with others.

   Put into effect your own travel policy guidelines to ensure staff know how to minimize risk to themselves when in an infection-active area and to eliminate passing on infection to your staff when they return.


Orange Threat (page 1)

Red Threat (page 1)
Increasing Travel Policy Guidelines

   Manage a workforce with less to do as business slows considerably, and know how to minimise the cost of absenteeism whilst maximizing the productivity of the skill sets which are available.

   Learn all about managing illness at work as it will mean healthy employees' refusal to come to the office due to safety concerns. According to the workplace health and safety regulations in most countries they would be well within their rights to do so.

   How to do an on-the-spot diagnosis using the Influenza Screening Flow Chart to minimize false alarms and panic among the staff and avoid unnecessary absenteeism.

Sickness Response Procedures
Influenza Screening Flow Chart

   Update your company’s operating procedures with supplemental sickness response procedures, to officially elevate pandemic response in to company policy. Fully customizable of course!

Sickness Response Procedures
Start of Sickness Response Procedures

   Disinfect workstations should the company’s cleaning contractor be unable to respond due to their own staff absenteeism problems.

   Understand the importance of good communications management and the critical role it will play in keeping the business ticking over. Includes some great ideas in alternate communications channels!

   Thorough staff training is critical. The more the staff know and understand about Pandemic Flu and your company’s response plans the quicker they will return to work.

Flu vs Common Cold Differences Factsheet
Flu vs. Common Cold Differences Factsheet

   There will be a shortage of supplies. The manual will help you to identify what supplies you rely on and how to source alternate suppliers.

   Can your office environment be compromised easily? Will the ventilation systems spread the virus? How about shared crockery and newspapers? What about your visitors? Learn how to maintain office environmental integrity.

   You hear about the need to increase staff awareness, but how do you? The manual comes with lots of great ideas and will show you what the message is which you should get out to all employees. Includes aa awareness screensaver.

   Probably the most important thing you can do to keep from picking up the virus is frequent hand washing. The chapter on personal hygiene education comes together with ready made awareness posters. Just print them out and stick them up on the walls – with your branding and logo.

Hand Hygiene Awareness Posters

   What about personal protective equipment? What kind of Face Masks should you get? How many should you get? What's the best Hand Antiseptic? The manual covers all this and lets you know where you can get the best deals, helping you stretch your pandemic response budget.

   Your government may require you to keep records of who your sick staff have been in contact with. Learn all about it in the contact tracing/tracking section.

Contact Tracing Form
Contact Tracing Form

And the manual doesn’t stop there. It’ll teach you what to expect and how to respond in many other areas too…

   Regulatory Compliance
   Public Health Sector Actions
   Communications Tree
   Quarantine Room
   Customer Management
   Stockpiling Provisions
   Mexican Influenza Response Activities Table

Mexican Influenza Response Activities Table
Mexican Influenza Response Activities Table Template

   We’ve even prepared templates of all the forms you’ll need, so you don’t have to! Customize the:

   Influenza Notification Form
   Sickness at Work Record Form
   Contact Tracing Form
   Emergency Contact Phone List
   Travel Application Form

   The manual even supplies you with a Mexican Influenza Response Report template to consolidate all of your plans, which you can use to get the budget you need and use as a work-in-progress Checklist to keep your activities on track.

Mexican Influenza Response Report Template
Mexican Influenza Response Report Template
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   There’s also a pandemic flu quiz to test your knowledge about influenza. It’s designed to test medical professionals, so if you pass you’ll become an expert too!

Plus much, much more…

Whether you’re a business manager, human resources manager, general manager, departmental manager or existing crisis manager, you too can benefit from all the resources, templates and tools contained in the Mexican Influenza Response Manual for Businesses!

Even if you have NO experience in business continuity or crisis management.

The Mexican Influenza Response Manual for Businesses (and all of its attachments) was put together by a seasoned team of business continuity planning professionals. Veterans with over 150 years of experiences from backgrounds as varied as airport operations, banking, telecommunications, manufacturing, publishing, business consulting, medicine and IT.

Bonus Offer Included in the Manual attachments is a fully customizable Business Impact Analysis Questionnaire Template with an explanation of what they are, how to do them.

Designed for business continuity planning in general, it will help you to establish a cost-to-benefit analysis and help you secure the funding you require to get your pandemic response activities completed.

Mexican Influenza Response Report Template
Business Impact Analysis Questionnaire Template
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